University of Arizona LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate

LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate（BD）at The University of Arizona（UA）提议招募12名STEM领域的代表性不足的少数民族学生（URM）进入工程、光学科学和物理科学的硕士课程，并为他们进入博士课程做好准备。BD学生将从UA和其他LSAMP联盟机构招募，并将获得资金，特定学科的教师指导，学术和职业发展支持，以准备和激励他们攻读STEM博士学位。UA在增加研究生院中代表性不足的少数民族人数方面非常有效，并且在美国大学协会（AAU）成员的所有其他研究I中排名第一，研究生的比例是URM。拟议的BD计划将解决物理科学和工程，其中仍然存在URM的代表性不足，特别是在博士水平。志愿指导BD学生的教师都是在科学和工程领域有成就的西班牙裔或美洲原住民终身教授或符合终身资格的教授。智力优势。该项目建立在UA研究生院之前的成功基础上，该学院在过去15年中进行了积极的招聘计划，包括参观少数民族高入学率的校园;夏季和全年的本科研究培训约120名URM和第一代/低收入学生，以及关于如何申请研究生院的具体研讨会，包括GRE准备研讨会。一旦BD学生开始博士学位。研究，这将是可行的，以资助他们，帮助他们成为非常有竞争力的国家奖学金，如国家科学基金会GRF，国防部，美国宇航局，福特，以及其他由亚利桑那州提供的，如科学亚利桑那奖学金，研究生访问奖学金和亚利桑那学者赠款。 博士生也将由现有的赠款资助（例如，GAAN，VIGRE，PIRE），超级基金培训核心，几个科技中心和卓越中心在UA;和其他赠款金授予参与教师。BD计划将提供特殊的指导，每周一次的研讨会，以发展进入博士学位所需的特定技能。计划，协助制作优秀的应用程序，前往会议，目前的研究和网络与同行和其他教师，在学术和科学写作辅导，并在学者谁拥有一个自我认同的博士参与社区。水平的科学家和谁理解的重要性和获得博士学位的STEM学科的职业利益，并追求在科学和技术的职业生涯。更广泛的影响。美国在保留URM方面取得成功的证据是，它在美洲原住民人数中排名第一，在西班牙裔博士人数中排名第八。（已获博士学位调查，2010年）。通过众多研究中心，UA提供的广泛的科学和技术基础设施将有助于LSAMP-BD学生的学科特定和跨学科培训，为他们进入博士课程并取得成功做好准备。

The LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) at The University of Arizona (UA) proposes to recruit a cohort of 12 Underrepresented Minority Students (URMs) in STEM to enter Master's programs in engineering, optical sciences, and the physical sciences and prepare them to enter doctoral programs. BD students will be recruited from the UA and other LSAMP Alliance institutions and will receive funding, discipline-specific faculty mentoring, academic and career development support to prepare and motivate them to pursue doctoral degrees in STEM. UA has been very effective in increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in graduate school and is ranked at the top of all other Research I, American Association of Universities (AAU) members in the US in the percentage of graduate students who are URM. The proposed BD program will address the physical sciences and engineering where there continues to be an underrepresentation of URMs, especially at the doctoral level. Faculty who volunteer to mentor BD students are accomplished Hispanic or Native American tenured or tenure-eligible professors in science and engineering. Intellectual Merit. This project builds on the prior success of the UA's Graduate College, which over the past 15 years has conducted an aggressive program of recruitment, including visits to campuses of high minority enrollment; summer and year-round undergraduate research training for approximately 120 upper-division URM and first-generation/low-income students, and specific workshops on how to apply to graduate school, including a GRE Prep workshop. Once the BD students begin Ph.D. studies, it will be feasible to fund them by helping them become very competitive for national fellowships such as NSF GRFs, DOD, NASA, Ford, as well as and others provided by Arizona such as Science Arizona Fellowships, Graduate Access Fellowships and Arizona Scholars grants. Doctoral students will also be funded by existing grants (e.g., GAAN, VIGRE, PIRE), the Superfund Training Core, several Science and Technology Centers and Centers of Excellence at UA; and other grants awarded to participating faculty. The BD program will provide special mentoring, a weekly seminar to develop specific skills required for entrance to Ph.D. programs, assistance in crafting outstanding applications, travel to conferences to present research and network with peers and other faculty, tutoring in academic and science writing, and participation in a community of scholars who possess a self-identity as Ph.D.-level scientists and who understand the importance and career benefits of obtaining PhDs in STEM disciplines and pursue careers in science and technology. Broader Impacts. Evidence of the UA's success in retaining URMs is demonstrated by the fact that it ranks 1st in the number of Native American and 8th in the number of Hispanic Ph.D. recipients in the country (Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2010). The extensive science and technology infrastructure available at UA through numerous research centers will contribute to the discipline-specific and interdisciplinary training for LSAMP-BD students, preparing them to enter and succeed in doctoral programs.