Bridge to the Doctorate

通往博士学位的桥梁

• 批准号: 1249211
• 负责人: Ashton Hamme
• 金额: $ 98.7万
• 依托单位: Jackson State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2015-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1249211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridge; Doctorate

Jackson State University (JSU) and its LSMAMP partners seek to broaden the participation and increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URM) in PhD Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) programs through the support of a tenth (10th) Cohort of students in the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Program. The major goal of the BD program is to provide a bridge to the PhD at a 90% placement rate for minority students through the implementation of a comprehensive two year master's degree program. To date, from a total of 106 URM students (Cohort 1-9), 80 (Cohort 1-8) were admitted to PhD programs, 16 have earned the PhDs (including one PhD-MD), and 53 are at various stages of completing their PhD. Furthermore, 94% of JSU's BD students earned their MS degrees in two (2) years. In order to build another successful cohort of competitive URM STEM students who will earn their MS degree and bridge into a STEM PhD program, JSU will continue to utilize a successful pathway whereby URM students who pursue the MS degree have the potential to complete the PhD degree in STEM areas if provided sufficient financial support, rigorous curricula, committed mentoring, and extensive national and international research experiences. STEM disciplines targeted for the BD include: chemistry, mathematics, biology, environmental science, computer science, and engineering. The requested BD support will continue to accelerate and increase the numbers of URM students entering the PhD pipeline. The BD is an intensive, highly interactive program covering the first two years of the students' graduate tenure leading to the MS degree. Students are expected to continue their work through to the doctorate. The first year the student's satisfy the required core courses and select their research advisor. During the first summer, the students are exposed to scientific and technical workforce environments internships at national or international laboratories, corporations and universities. During this time, students and their faculty advisors continually interact on the learning experience and initiation of research projects. The second year is dedicated to research, writing the MS thesis, specialized courses and applying to doctoral programs and fellowships.

杰克逊州立大学（JSU）及其LSMAMP合作伙伴寻求扩大参与并增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）在科学，技术，工程和数学博士（STEM）项目中的数量，通过支持LSAMP博士学位桥梁（BD）项目的第十（10）批学生。BD计划的主要目标是通过实施全面的两年制硕士学位课程，为少数民族学生提供90%的博士学位的桥梁。迄今为止，共有106名乌拉尔大学学生（第1-9组），80名（第1-8组）被博士课程录取，16名获得博士学位（包括一名博士），53名处于完成博士学位的不同阶段。此外，JSU 94%的BD学生在两年内获得了硕士学位。为了培养另一批有竞争力的URM STEM学生，他们将获得硕士学位，并进入STEM博士课程，JSU将继续利用成功的途径，即URM攻读硕士学位的学生有潜力完成STEM领域的博士学位，如果提供足够的经济支持，严格的课程，承诺的指导，以及广泛的国内和国际研究经验。针对BD的STEM学科包括：化学、数学、生物、环境科学、计算机科学和工程。所要求的BD支持将继续加速和增加URM学生进入博士学位管道的人数。BD是一个密集的，高度互动的项目，涵盖学生研究生任期的前两年，最终获得硕士学位。学生们应该继续他们的工作直到获得博士学位。第一年，学生必须完成必修的核心课程，并选择自己的研究顾问。在第一个暑假，学生们将接触到科技工作环境，在国家或国际实验室、公司和大学实习。在此期间，学生和他们的指导老师在学习经验和研究项目的启动方面不断互动。第二年是专门研究，写硕士论文，专业课程和申请博士课程和奖学金。