I3 Berkeley Science Connections Program

智力MeritThe I3 Berkeley Science Connections Program（I3 BSC）将为传统上代表性不足（UR）的学生建立从本科到研究生水平的桥梁。I3 BSC专注于数学和物理科学（MPS），努力为来自不同背景的学生打开现代科学关键领域的大门，其中少数民族和所有民族妇女的代表性不足是长期存在的，而且仍然很严重。新的桥梁和进入研究生培训的开始几年将建立在研究经验的强度越来越大的本科生和即将到来的研究生。研究活动将加强与结构化的学术丰富和专业发展的机会和资源，以及同行，近同行和科学家的网络谁是在学术道路上进一步推进，并将作为mentors.I3BSC的目标过渡到研究生院的本科生在他们的初级和高级年，并通过博士研究的前两年。它侧重于学生进入MPS职业生涯的进步，特别是学术生涯，纳入并超越了保留在科学专业和完成学位的目标。的方法本身的研究和评价。我们将研究干预的种类和频率是否以及如何影响UR的科学进步和特定干预的影响。例如，项目的指导方面将提供一个独特的窗口，了解指导如何不仅影响学员，而且影响导师。虽然有越来越多的文献围绕教学理念和实践在classroomthere是关于学术生活的这一更非正式的方面发表的很少。更广泛的影响I3 BSC的目的是采取四个独立的美国国家科学基金会项目，现在独立工作，在伯克利分校，每个操作不同的MPS学科重点和针对不同的点上的教育途径的高效工作。I3 BSC扩展了每一个fourapproaches，使他们更统一，一致地提供给所有UR学生在加州大学伯克利分校谁是在伯克利分校的MPS部门的任何专业或正在进入任何我们的MPS博士课程。的NSF-加州联盟少数民族参与计划（CAMP），支持学生跨STEM领域的本科研究经验，社区建设和专业发展;伯克利？的NSF-AGEP计划，伯克利边缘，这增加了URM博士学位的生产，并推进博士生和博士后研究员到教授的职业生涯;一个NSF支持的指导低司学生在物理学，指南针和社会的妇女在物理科学联合指导计划的计划; NSF-探索统计研究计划，这是一个为期一周的密集计划，为本科生探索统计学的前沿研究。我们将包括来自所有群体的学生，这些群体在209号提案后的定义下增加了多样性（URM，妇女，残疾学生，第一代大学生），因为这些群体在数学和物理科学方面的代表性严重不足，主要关注和优先考虑那些有资格参加CAMP，Compass-SWPS-普尔纳和AGEP的伯克利学生。

Intellectual MeritThe I3 Berkeley Science Connections Program (I3BSC) will build bridges from the undergraduateto graduate levels for traditionally underrepresented (UR) students.I3BSC focuses on the mathematical and physical sciences (MPS) in an effort to open the door forstudents from diverse backgrounds to key fields of modern science, in which underrepresentationof both ethnic minorities and women of all ethnicities is long-standing and remains severe. Newbridges to and into the beginning years of graduate training will be built on research experiencesof increasing intensity for undergraduates and incoming graduate students. The research activitieswill be fortified with systematic access to structured academic enrichment and professionaldevelopment opportunities and resources, as well as a network of peers, near peers and scientistswho are further advanced on the academic pathway and will serve as mentors.I3BSC targets the transition into graduate school for undergraduates in their junior and senioryears and through the first two years of doctoral study. It focuses on the advancement of studentsinto MPS careers, particularly academic careers, incorporating and also going beyond the goals ofretention in science majors and completion of degrees.I3BSC?s approaches lend themselves to study and evaluation. We will examine if and how thevariety and frequency of interventions effects UR advancement in science and the influence ofparticular interventions. For example, the mentoring aspect of the project will provide a uniquewindow into learning how mentoring affects not only the mentee, but also the mentor. Whilethere is a growing set of literature around instructional beliefs and practices within the classroomthere is little published about this more informal aspect of academic life.Broader ImpactsI3BSC is designed to take the highly effective work of four separate NSF programs that now workindependently from each other at Berkeley, each operating with different MPS disciplinary fociand targeting different points on the educational pathway. I3BSC extends each of the fourapproaches to make them more uniformly and consistently available for all UR students at UCBerkeley who are majoring in any of the MPS departments at Berkeley or are entering any of ourMPS doctoral programs.I3BSC will create new synergies that extend the work of these four key NSF-supported programs:Berkeley?s NSF-California Alliance for Minority Participation Program (CAMP), which supportsstudents across STEM fields in undergraduate research experiences, community building andprofessional development; Berkeley?s NSF-AGEP program, The Berkeley Edge, which increasesURM doctoral degree production, and advances PhD students and post-doctoral fellows toprofessorial careers; a NSF-supported program for mentoring lower-division students in Physics,the Compass and Society for Women in the Physical Sciences joint mentoring program; TheNSF-Explorations in Statistics Research Program, which is an intensive week-long program forundergraduates to explore cutting edge research in Statistics. We will include students from allgroups that add diversity under the post-Proposition 209 definition (URMs, women, students withdisabilities, first-generation to college), because these groups are severely underrepresented in themathematical and physical sciences, with a primary focus and priority given to those Berkeleystudents who are eligible for participation in CAMP, Compass-SWPS-PURNA, and AGEP.