Joint Undergraduate Mathematics and Physics Scholarships (JUMP)

JUMP奖学金计划从大二开始为学生提供全面的支持，包括经济援助、外联、招聘、队列活动以及教师、学生同龄人、工业界和政府校友的指导。计划的目标是：(1)为30名有经济需要的数学或物理天才学生提供奖学金，为每位学生提供最多三年的奖学金，以增加他们受教育的机会；(2)通过综合队列计划指导和支持这些学生及时完成学位，并为他们进入科学，技术，工程或数学（STEM）劳动力或研究生院做好准备；(3)扩大大学数学和物理的整体学生支持计划，使所有STEM专业受益；(4)为数学系和物理系之间的教育合作创造一个模式，可以被大学和其他机构的其他STEM部门采用。JUMP项目的新特点包括：(1)专注于物理和数学交叉领域的伟大想法，以激励学生留在这些专业；(2)由成功的STEM专业人士组成的咨询委员会，指导JUMP学者走向STEM职业；(3)利用物理教育研究的最佳实践，为JUMP学者提供最新的主动学习体验。智力优势：JUMP计划是基于数学和物理的共同努力，以增加学生的教育机会和智力生活。数学和物理学生群体之间的科学互动为学生提供了额外的动力和榜样，让他们了解该领域中令人兴奋的问题以及与当前知识体系的关系。数学和物理专业的学生们正在通过研讨会和特殊课程学习该领域的重要问题和问题，并参与智力讨论。强烈鼓励学生参与教师活跃的研究领域。更广泛的影响：该机构正在努力显著提高本科生对STEM的兴趣。近年来，数学系和物理系都在高中推广项目上投入了相当大的努力，这些努力使更多的新生对STEM领域感兴趣。这个项目正在接触大量目前在非stem领域，但在数学和物理方面具有巨大潜力的有才华的学生。该项目正在帮助增加STEM学生的多样性，其基础是：(a)文理学院60%的学生是女性，(b)该大学与少数族裔学生比例很高的几所高中和社区学院有着密切的联系。

The JUMP Scholarship program is supporting students beginning in their sophomore year through a comprehensive set of activities involving financial aid, outreach, recruiting, cohort activities, and mentoring by faculty, student peers, and alumni from industry and government. The objectives of the project are to: (1) enhance the educational opportunities for 30 talented students in mathematics or physics with documented financial need by providing scholarships for each student for up to three years; (2) mentor and support these students through an integrated cohort program to complete their degrees in a timely manner and prepare them to enter the science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) workforce or graduate school; (3) expand the overall student support programs in mathematics and physics at the university to benefit all STEM majors; and (4) create a model for educational collaborations between the Mathematics and Physics Departments that can be adopted by other STEM departments at the university and other institutions.Novel features of the JUMP program include: (1) a focus on great ideas at the intersection of physics and mathematics to motivate cohorts of students to stay in these majors, (2) an advisory committee of successful STEM professionals to mentor the JUMP Scholars toward STEM careers, (3) the use of best practices in Physics Education Research to give JUMP Scholars the latest in active-learning experiences.Intellectual Merit: The JUMP program is based on joint efforts in mathematics and physics to enhance the educational opportunities and intellectual life for students. The scientific interaction between cohorts of mathematics and physics students provides additional motivation and role modeling for students about the exciting problems in the fields and the relationships to the current body of knowledge. Cohorts of mathematics and physics majors are learning about the important issues and problems in the fields and engaging in intellectual discussions through seminars and special courses. Students are strongly encouraged to participate in the active research areas of faculty.Broader Impacts: The institution is working to significantly increase STEM interest by undergraduates. Both the Mathematics and Physics Departments have devoted considerable effort in recent years to high school outreach programs, and these efforts have led to more freshmen interested in STEM fields. This project is reaching out to the large pool of talented students currently in non-STEM fields, but with great potential to excel in mathematics and physics. The program is helping to increase the diversity of STEM students, building on (a) the fact that 60% of the students in the College of Arts and Sciences are women and (b) the close connections of the university to several high schools and community colleges with high percentages of minority students.