Northeast LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate

东北路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟(NELSAMP)选择康涅狄格大学(UConn)作为2014-2016年博士之桥(BD)活动的地点。康涅狄格州州立大学的BD活动将证明，一项积极、密集、注重结果的活动将有助于解决美国目前面临的社会、经济和技术挑战，该活动旨在招募、准备、指导、培训和支持STEM学科中传统上代表性不足的博士生。为了保持美国在全球的竞争力，它必须在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供出色的教育准备。来自STEM代表性不足群体的学生是解决如何重振国家全球技术领先地位这一持续谜题的关键一环。康涅狄格州大学将招收和支持12名来自非裔美国人、西班牙裔和/或美国原住民群体的博士生，他们毕业于拥有BD奖学金的LSAMP联盟机构，在康涅狄格州大学STEM学科的头两年进行研究生学习。为BD研究员安排的活动包括制定重点学习计划和学术里程碑的详细路线图；参加专业技能发展讲习班；有机会进行指导/志愿服务；以及接受职业准备。此外，康涅狄格州大学将完善和扩展其赫斯基桥博士STEM计划的网站。通过在生物医学工程、环境和人类可持续性以及纳米技术等前沿领域的创新STEM研究项目，康涅狄格州大学将培养杰出的科学家和工程师。BD研究员的视角、背景和经验的多样性将有助于在应对社会重大挑战方面取得突破。

The Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NELSAMP) has chosen the University of Connecticut (UConn) as the site for the 2014-2016 Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity. The UConn BD Activity will demonstrate that a proactive, intensive, results-oriented campaign to recruit, prepare, mentor, train, and support doctoral candidates from traditionally underrepresented populations in the STEM disciplines will contribute to resolving social, economic, and technological challenges that currently face the United States. For the U.S. to remain competitive globally, it must provide exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. Students from underrepresented groups in STEM are a critical piece in solving the ongoing puzzle of how to reinvigorate the nation's global technological primacy. UConn will recruit and support 12 doctoral students from African American, Hispanic and/or Native American populations who are graduates of LSAMP Alliance institutions with BD Fellowships for the first two years of their graduate studies in STEM disciplines at UConn. Structured activities for the BD Fellows include developing focused plans of study and detailed roadmaps of academic milestones; participating in professional skills development workshops; having opportunities for mentorship/volunteering; and receiving career preparation. In addition, UConn will refine and expand its Husky Bridge to the Doctorate STEM Program website. Through innovative STEM research projects in cutting-edge areas such as biomedical engineering, environmental and human sustainability, and nanotechnology, UConn will train outstanding scientists and engineers. The diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences of the BD Fellows will contribute toward breakthroughs in meeting society's grand challenges.