UT System LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (2011 - 2013 Cohort) - BD Site: University of Texas (EL Paso)

德克萨斯大学系统路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）建议在德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（UTEP）实施博士学位（BD）项目，该联盟的领导机构和西班牙裔多数服务机构。这一努力将为来自代表性不足的少数民族（URM）群体的12名有才华的学生提供全力支持，他们将获得STEM学科的博士学位，并在完成后进入技术劳动力队伍或选择学术界的职业生涯。该计划将建立在UTEP和姐妹UT系统机构之前BD队列收集的经验基础上。该计划将主要针对学生与以前的本科研究经验谁是桥梁博士。STEM学科的课程。一个高质量的合格申请人谁参加了LSAMP活动作为本科生和计划开始博士研究在UTEP在2011年秋季或2012年春季将创建池。申请人将通过一个过程，将包括PI，co-PI和STEM博士项目主任进行的个人面试进行仔细筛选。被BD项目录取的学生将在他们作为博士生的第一个学期确定一个教师导师和一个研究课题。除了全面的财政支持，BD研究员将通过每周研讨会和一对一会议从PI和co-PI获得高质量的建议和指导。这些会议的目的是帮助BD研究员实现他们的学术目标，提供有关如何准备一个研究计划的里程碑和交付成果的建议，并指导他们准备成为知识渊博和有能力的专业人士。BD研究员还将接受指导，申请来自NSF研究生奖学金计划，创业板奖学金计划和福特基金会奖学金计划的竞争性资金。BD研究员将被要求每年至少参加一次他们学科的专业会议，并且还将参加NSF的联合年会。该项目将有助于建立关于侵入性咨询干预措施和研讨会的知识库，以培养代表性不足的少数群体的合格学生，并使他们为顺利完成博士学位做好准备。PI和Co-PI在少数民族和第一代大学生过渡到研究生学习时面临的许多挑战方面拥有丰富的经验，并且已经证明能够成功地根据学生的需求制定策略。项目受益于一个经过验证的模型，其中包括目标、目的、活动和预期结果。可用于该项目的资源包括UT系统LSAMP工作人员的支持服务，UTEP研究生院工作人员提供的入学和专业发展服务，UTEP机构评估，研究和规划中心的评估服务，以及BD研究员将进行论文工作的科学与工程学院的研究实验室和办公室。拟议的计划将导致URM研究生成功的成功策略的增强，适用于具有与UTEP相似特征的其他高等院校，UTEP是一所城市研究型大学，非传统学生比例很高。该计划将有助于国家的目标，即增加在STEM学科中代表性不足的少数民族学生的数量，并在其专业领域获得最终学位。

The University of Texas System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) proposes to implement a Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) project at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), the lead institution of the Alliance and a Hispanic majority serving institution. This effort will provide full support to twelve talented students from under-represented minority (URM) groups who will obtain doctoral degrees in the STEM disciplines and upon completion either enter the technical workforce or choose a career in academia.The program will build on the experiences gathered from previous BD cohorts at UTEP and sister UT System institutions. The program will target primarily students with prior undergraduate research experience who are bridging to Ph.D. programs in STEM disciplines. A high quality pool of qualified applicants who have participated in LSAMP activities as undergraduates and plan to begin doctoral studies at UTEP in the fall of 2011 or spring of 2012 will be created. Applicants will be carefully screened through a process that will include personal interviews conducted by the PI, co-PIs, and STEM doctoral program directors.Students accepted into the BD program will identify a faculty mentor and a research topic during their first semester as doctoral students. Besides full financial support, BD fellows will receive quality advising and mentoring from the PI and co-PIs through weekly seminars and one-on-one meetings. These sessions will be designed to help the BD fellows achieve their academic goals by providing advice on how to prepare a research plan with milestones and deliverables, and mentoring to prepare them to be knowledgeable and competent professionals. BD fellows will also be coached to apply for competitive funding from the NSF Graduate Fellowship Program, the GEM fellowship program, and the Ford Foundation Fellowship program. BD fellows will be expected to attend at least one professional meeting in their discipline per year and will also participate in the Joint Annual Meeting of the NSF.Intellectual Merit. The project will contribute to the knowledge base concerning intrusive advising interventions and seminar sessions that shape qualified students from under-represented minority groups and prepare them to successfully complete a doctoral degree. The PI and Co-PIs have ample experience with the many challenges minority and first-college generation students face as they transition to graduate studies, and have already shown to be successful in tailoring strategies to their students' needs. The project benefits from a proven model that includes goals, objectives, activities, and anticipated outcomes. The resources available for the project include the support services of the UT System LSAMP staff, admission and professional development services offered by the UTEP Graduate School staff, the evaluation services of the UTEP Center for Institutional Evaluation, Research, and Planning, as well as the research laboratories and offices in the College of Science and Engineering in which BD fellows will conduct their dissertation work.Broader Impact. The proposed program will lead to the enhancement of successful strategies for URM graduate student success that are applicable to other institutions of higher learning with characteristics similar to those of UTEP, which is an urban research university with a high proportion of non-traditional students. The program will contribute to the national goal of increasing the number of underrepresented minority students in STEM disciplines with terminal degrees in their area of expertise.