Berkeley Science Network Leadership Program

该计划的目标是为26名有经济需求的有才华的学生提供经济支持、学术丰富、指导、专业发展资源和领导力准备，使他们能够成功地在该机构的科学或数学本科阶段导航。为了支持学生在最高学术水平上取得成就，奖学金获得者被纳入一个由同行、近同行、教师、专业科学家和校友组成的指导网络，这些人在学术道路上取得了进一步的进步。财政支持减轻了有经济需要的有才华的学生在他们通过数学或物理科学的一流教育进入研究生院或科学劳动力的过程中工作和贷款的义务。智力优势：该项目为来自不同背景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。通过关注领导力和成功的潜力，该项目鼓励奖学金获得者设想、计划和准备研究生院或在科学劳动力中富有成效和竞争性的职业生涯。优先支持在天文学、化学、地质学、地球物理学、地球与行星科学、数学、应用数学、物理学和统计学等领域有兴趣、有学术成就和决心的学生的准备和提升。在大一和大二期间，学者成为正式的科学家网络社区的成员并直接受益。领导和人才发展的机会在大三和大四被引入。更广泛的影响：该项目优先考虑招募和留住多元化学生，使用加州后209提案的合法定义，包括历史上代表性不足的少数民族、女性、残疾学生和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财政援助办公室密切合作，以确定符合条件的学生，他们也增加了数学和物理科学的多样性。然后，项目团队积极参与由数学和物理科学多样性和教育中心管理的项目，这些项目的重点是招募和提升在科学领域代表性不足的群体的学生。其中包括伯克利科学网络和nsf -伯克利科学连接，这两个项目都旨在促进从高中到博士后阶段在数学、物理和计算机科学领域被低估的少数群体的进步；指南针项目（Compass Project），在本科阶段培养一个包容的物理科学社区；以及物理科学妇女协会，这是一个由大学支持的项目，由物理学、天文学、地球与行星科学和生物物理学的女研究生管理，其目标是鼓励妇女和少数民族学习物理科学，并在这些部门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.