Bellarmine S-STEM Scholars Program

智力优势：该项目每年颁发最多20个奖学金，为期4年，以招收、留住和毕业在物理、化学、计算机科学、计算机工程和数学专业有学术天赋和经济困难的本科生。S-STEM项目的目标是(a)从代表性不足的群体（妇女、少数民族和第一代学生）中增加目标STEM领域的入学率；(b)透过提供更佳的STEM目标范畴的教育机会，提高学生对取得学位的认知度，使S-STEM学生能达到最佳的学业表现；(c)通过各种结构化的机构支持计划，高质量的丰富活动，以及与潜在雇主合作，通过学位完成支持这些学者，以促进学生在STEM劳动力中的职业安置；(d)培养受过良好教育的熟练STEM毕业生，增加STEM毕业生进入并留在劳动力市场从事STEM相关专业工作或进入STEM学科研究生院的人数。更广泛的影响：该大学位于一个拥有大量低收入、经济上处于不利地位的非洲裔美国人的地区。S-STEM领导小组正在招收当地和地区高中的学生，以及居住在城市和农村的低收入家庭的学生，包括阿巴拉契亚地区委员会指定的贫困县。为确保这些S-STEM学者在学业上取得优异成绩，他们可以获得的具体支持服务包括：S-STEM学者指导计划、同伴辅导、教师指导、专业发展和S-STEM生活和学习社区（为S-STEM学者提供共同生活的机会）。S-STEM学者也有机会通过参与教师指导的各自STEM学科的研究项目来获得宝贵的研究技能，并在专业会议上发表演讲。

Intellectual Merit: The purpose of this project is to award up to 20 scholarships each year for 4 years to recruit, retain, and graduate academically talented and financially needy undergraduate students majoring in Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics. The objectives of the S-STEM project are to (a) increase enrollment in the targeted STEM fields from underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities and first-generation students); (b) increase retention to degree achievement by providing improved educational opportunities in the targeted STEM fields so that the S-STEM scholars can achieve their best academic performance; (c) support these scholars through degree completion with a variety of structured institutional support programs, high quality enrichment activities, and partnering with potential employers to facilitate student career placement in the STEM workforce; and (d) prepare well-educated skilled STEM graduates and increase the number of STEM graduates who enter and remain in the workforce in a STEM-related professional job or enter graduate school in a STEM discipline. Broader Impact: The University is located in a region with a sizable low-income economically disadvantaged African-American inner-city population. The S-STEM leadership team is recruiting students from the local and regional high schools and from low-income families residing in both urban and rural areas, including the distressed counties as designated by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The specific support services that are available for these S-STEM scholars to ensure that they excel academically are: an S-STEM scholar orientation program, peer tutoring, faculty mentoring, professional development, and S-STEM living and learning community (which provides an opportunity for S-STEM scholars to live together). S-STEM scholars also have the opportunity to acquire valuable research skills by taking part in faculty-mentored research projects in their respective STEM disciplines, leading to presentations at professional conferences.