Berkeley Science Network Leadership Program

该计划的目标是为26名有经济需要的有才华的学生提供财政支持、学术充实、指导、专业发展资源和领导力准备的组合，以便他们能够顺利度过在该机构的科学或数学本科阶段。为了支持学生在最高学术水平上的成就，奖学金获得者被嵌入一个由同行、近邻同行、教员、专业科学家和在学术道路上进一步进步的校友组成的指导网络中。财政支持免除了有经济需要的有经济需要的学生的工作和贷款义务，同时他们通过一流的数学或物理科学教育进入研究生院或科学工作者。智力优势：该项目为来自不同背景的有经济需求的有学术天赋的学生打开了通往现代科学关键领域的大门。通过专注于领导力和成功的潜力，该计划鼓励奖学金获得者设想、计划和准备进入研究生院或在科学工作者中从事富有成效和有竞争力的职业。优先支持培养有兴趣、有学术成就、有决心在天文学、化学、地质学、地球物理学、地球和行星科学、数学、应用数学、物理和统计学领域取得成功的学生。在大一和大二期间，学者们成为正式的科学家网络社区的成员，并直接从中受益。领导力和人才发展机会将在大三和大四引入。广泛的影响：该项目优先考虑招募和保留多元化学生，使用合法的加州后209号提案的定义，包括历史上代表性不足的少数族裔、女性、残疾学生，以及他们家庭中第一代上大学的学生。为了实现这一目标，该项目与招生办公室和资助办公室密切合作，寻找符合条件的学生，这些学生也增加了数学和物理科学的多样性。然后，项目团队积极参与各种项目，这些项目侧重于从科学代表性较低的群体中招收和提升学生，并由数学和物理科学多样性和教育中心管理。其中包括伯克利科学网络和国家科学基金会-伯克利科学联系计划，这两个计划的目的都是促进数学、物理和计算机科学方面人数不足的少数群体从高中到博士后水平的进步；COMPASS项目，该项目促进本科生物理科学领域的包容性社区；以及女性物理科学协会，这是一个由女性物理学、天文学、地球和行星科学及生物物理学研究生管理的大学资助方案，其目标是鼓励妇女和少数族裔学习物理学，并在这些系中为所有学生创造一个友好和支持的环境。

The objective of this program is to provide a combination of financial support, academic enrichment, mentoring, professional development resources, and leadership preparation to twenty-six talented students with financial need so that they can navigate successfully through their undergraduate years in science or mathematics at the institution. To support student achievement at the highest academic level, scholarship recipients are embedded in a mentoring network of peers, near peers, faculty, professional scientists and alumni who are further advanced on the academic pathway. The financial support relieves talented students with financial need of the obligation to work and take out loans while they make their way through a first class education in the mathematical or physical sciences to graduate school or the scientific workforce.Intellectual Merit:This project opens the door for academically talented students from diverse backgrounds with demonstrated financial need to key fields of modern science. By focusing on potential for leadership and success, the program encourages the scholarship recipients to envision, plan for, and prepare for graduate school or productive and competitive careers in the scientific workforce. Priority is being given to supporting the preparation and advancement of students with interest, academic merit, and indicators of determination to succeed in the fields of Astronomy, Chemistry, Geology, Geophysics, Earth and Planetary Science, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Physics, and Statistics. During the freshman and sophomore years, scholars become members of and benefit directly from the formal networked community of scientists. Leadership and talent development opportunities are being introduced during the junior and senior years.Broader Impacts:The project prioritizes the recruitment and retention of diversity students, using the legal California post-Proposition 209 definition to include historically underrepresented minorities, women, students with disabilities, and students who are the first generation in their families to go to college. To achieve this, the project works closely with the Office of Admissions and the Financial Aid Office to identify eligible students who also increase diversity in the mathematical and physical sciences. The project team then engages in active partnership with programs that focus on the recruitment and advancement of students from groups underrepresented in science and are administered by the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Diversity and Education Center. These include the Berkeley Science Network and the NSF-Berkeley Science Connections, both of which are designed to facilitate the advancement of underrepresented minorities in the mathematical, physical and computer sciences from high school through post-doctoral levels; The Compass Project, which fosters an inclusive community in the physical sciences at the undergraduate level; and the Society for Women in the Physical Sciences, a university supported program run by female graduate students in Physics, Astronomy, Earth and Planetary Sciences and Biophysics, whose goals are to encourage women and minorities to study the physical sciences and to create a friendly and supportive environment in these departments for all students.