The Bioscience Scholars Program: Bringing the Master's Degree Within Reach

佛罗里达大学生物科学学者（BioS）项目的智力价值源于其目标，即为低收入学生提供基于论文的学士/硕士课程，使他们能够接触科学专业及其社区，并使他们能够发挥最大潜力。该项目的目标是参加全州高中生物技术项目的学生，他们已经表现出对生物技术的兴趣，并获得了大量的技术技能，但缺乏完成研究生学位的经济资源。为学者提供课程和研讨会，重点是基础知识，批判性思维技能和技术技能，并有机会获得广泛的指导研究经验。BioS计划利用机构承诺，使学者在五年内获得学士/硕士学位。更广泛的影响包括影响佛罗里达大学所有生物学学生的课程改革，而不仅仅是学者。这个项目可以作为创造多样性的全国模式，因为招收学生的目标人群中包括许多未被充分代表的少数民族学生。最后，本课程的学生将接受培训，以满足佛罗里达州快速发展的生物技术部门就业市场的当地需求。

The intellectual merit of this project, Bioscience Scholars (BioS) at the University of Florida, stems from its goal of bringing a thesis-based BS/MS program within reach of low-income students, making the scientific profession and its community accessible to them and allowing them to achieve their maximum potential. The project targets students in a statewide high school biotechnology program who have already demonstrated an interest in biotechnology and acquired substantial technical skills, but lack the financial resources to complete a graduate degree. Scholars are provided coursework and workshops focused on foundational knowledge, critical thinking skills and technical skills, and are given the opportunity for extensive, mentored research experience. The BioS program leverages an institutional commitment so that scholars graduate with a combined BS/MS degree within five years. Broader impacts include curricular reforms that affect all biology students at the University of Florida, not just the scholars. This program could serve as a national model of creating diversity because the targeted population from which students are recruited includes many underrepresented minority students. Finally, students in this program are trained to fill local needs in the job market in Florida's rapidly growing biotechnology sector.