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

美国国家科学基金会（NSF）科学、技术、工程和数学（S-STEM）奖学金项目位于富勒顿的加州州立大学（CSUF），为有学术天赋的生物学、化学和生物化学专业的学生提供奖学金和支持服务。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，但现有的合格人才与对这些人才迅速增长的需求之间存在差距。CSUF的化学和生物研究型劳动力奖学金（STEER）项目旨在解决这一严重短缺问题，为能够在多学科、以团队为基础的工业环境中发挥作用的高素质毕业生提供奖学金。此外，CSUF的NSF Noyce Teaching as Primary Profession In Biology and Biochemistry project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和学生的生物科学职业意识。STEER的总体目标是提高CSUF STEM本科生的数量和质量，他们将加入以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领域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，以及丰富活动，使他们能够从科学的角度学习、学习、社交和共同工作，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为行业职业和需求量身定制的知识、技能和习惯。因此，它正在建立一些项目，这些项目将有助于建立知识库，了解如何有效地教育一支强大的STEM行业劳动力，以及如何通过教育实践和经验来促进STEM专业的保留，完成学位，为工作环境做准备，以及在行业劳动力中取得成功的思维习惯，特别是在代表性不足的少数群体中。

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.