Scholarships to Enhance Excellence in the Chemical and Biological Research Based Workforce (STEER)

奖学金以提高化学和生物研究人员的卓越水平（STEER）

• 批准号: 1356531
• 负责人: Sean Walker
• 金额: $ 61.71万
• 依托单位: CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1356531&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Enhance; Excellence; Chemical; Biological

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project at California State University at Fullerton (CSUF) is providing scholarships and support services to academically-talented students majoring in biology, chemistry, and biochemistry who demonstrate financial need. Abundant jobs are available for biology, chemistry, and biochemistry graduates in the bioscience industry, but a gap exists between the available, qualified talent and the burgeoning need for such personnel. CSUF's Scholarships To Enhance Excellence in the Chemical and Biological Research-Based Workforce (STEER) project is addressing this critical shortage by supplying highly-qualified graduates who are capable of functioning in the multidisciplinary, team-based environment that characterizes industry. In addition, a link to CSUF's NSF Noyce Teaching as a Primary Profession in Biology and Biochemistry project invites STEM teachers in preparation to STEER activities, which impacts the bioscience career awareness of future high school teachers and their students.STEER's overarching goal is to enhance the quantity and quality of CSUF STEM undergraduates who will join the biological and chemical research-based industry workforce. In addition to providing scholarships for at least 80 students, it is integrating new and existing campus activities for students in the targeted majors who wish to enter the biosciences workforce. STEER provides scholarships, support services, and opportunities to ensure students academic and personal support, as well as enrichment activities that enable them to learn, study, socialize, and work together from their scientific perspectives, improving retention, graduation rates, and job prospects. The project is adapting the curriculum to enable students to acquire knowledge, skills, and habits that are specifically tailored to industry careers and needs. Thus, it is establishing programs that will contribute to the knowledge base about ways to effectively educate a robust STEM industry workforce and about the educational practices and experiences that foster retention in STEM majors, completion of degrees, preparation for the workplace environment, and the habits of mind that lead to success in the industry workforce, particularly among underrepresented minorities.

这个国家科学基金会（NSF）科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）奖学金项目在加州州立大学富勒顿（CSUF）提供奖学金和支持服务，以学术才华的学生主修生物，化学和生物化学谁证明经济需要。在生物科学行业，生物学、化学和生物化学毕业生有大量的工作机会，但在可用的合格人才和对这些人员的迅速增长的需求之间存在差距。CSUF的奖学金，以提高卓越的化学和生物研究为基础的劳动力（STEER）项目是通过提供高素质的毕业生谁是能够在多学科，以团队为基础的环境中发挥作用的特点行业解决这一严重短缺。此外，CSUF的NSF Noyce教学作为生物学和生物化学项目的一个链接邀请STEM教师准备STEER活动，这将影响未来高中教师及其学生的生物科学职业意识。STEER的首要目标是提高CSUF STEM本科生的数量和质量，他们将加入生物和化学研究为基础的行业劳动力。除了为至少80名学生提供奖学金外，它还为希望进入生物科学劳动力的目标专业的学生整合了新的和现有的校园活动。STEER提供奖学金，支持服务和机会，以确保学生的学术和个人支持，以及丰富的活动，使他们能够学习，研究，社交，并从他们的科学观点一起工作，提高保留率，毕业率和就业前景。该项目正在调整课程，使学生能够获得专门针对行业职业和需求的知识，技能和习惯。因此，它正在建立计划，这将有助于知识库的方式来有效地教育一个强大的STEM行业劳动力和教育实践和经验，促进保留在STEM专业，完成学位，准备工作场所的环境，以及思维习惯，导致成功的行业劳动力，特别是在代表性不足的少数民族。