Track 1 Proposal to OEDG Program: A Career Path for African-American Students from HBCUs to National Laboratories

这项新计划正在开发一项试点计划，从代表性不足的群体中招收本科物理科学和工程专业的学生进入石溪大学地球科学系的研究生课程，通过正规课程和研究项目教育他们获得地球科学硕士学位，并将他们定位为美国能源部[DOE]国家用户设施的科学助理，包括布鲁克海文国家实验室[BNL]的国家同步辐射光源[NSLS]。这一新计划建立在历史黑人学院和大学[HBCU]教授与BNL NSLS之间不断发展的关系基础上。这种关系的一个结果是创建了科学和工程研究和教育机会跨学科联盟[REASTH]，这是一个促进HBCU和其他少数群体服务机构[MSI]的研究的组织，涉及利用国家用户设施，如BNL的NSLS。这一奖项与NSLS的配套资金相结合，每年可支持3名学生参加该项目。该计划旨在解决公认的非裔美国学生参与地球科学的低水平问题，并促进发展和培训21世纪地球科学事业所需的各种科学和技术研讨会。除了RAING和NSLS，这一新倡议的合作伙伴还包括：石溪大学全纳教育中心和布鲁克海文国家实验室教育方案办公室。

This new initiative is developing a pilot program to recruit undergraduate physical science and engineering students from underrepresented groups into the graduate program in the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University, educate them via formal courses and research projects to the M. S. degree in geosciences, and position them for employment as science associates in national user facilities of the U. S. Department of Energy [DOE], including the National Synchrotron Light Source [NSLS] at the Brookhaven National Laboratory [BNL]. This new program builds on the evolving relationship between professors from Historical Black Colleges and Universities [HBCUs] and the NSLS at BNL. An outcome of this relationship has been the creation of an Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering [INCREASE], an organization to promote research in HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions [MSIs], involving utilization of national user facilities such as the NSLS at BNL. This award, when combined with matching funds from NSLS, is supporting 3 students per year in this program. This program is addressing well-recognized low levels of participation by African-American students in the geosciences and is fostering development and training of the diverse scientific and technical workshop required for 21st century geoscience careers. In addition to INCREASE and the NSLS, partners in this new initiative include: the Center for Inclusive Education at Stony Brook University and the Office of Educational Programs at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.