Scholarships to Support STEM majors Computational Sciences Minors

该提案将向有学术天赋的生物、化学和物理专业的学生颁发奖学金，这些学生对职业和研究生教育感兴趣，并且有经济需求。奖学金获得者将组成一组学生，他们将选修计算科学辅修课程，接触与他们主修领域相关的计算技术。新的和现有的支持结构将被用来确保每个学者的成功。该项目的主要学术特征将包括参与本科研究、会议演讲和/或有关该研究的出版物的机会，以及计算科学领域的高级跨学科项目。具有计算科学背景的有才华的STEM毕业生将通过为能够在全球经济中竞争和创新的劳动力做出贡献来帮助美国工业。研究表明，计算科学课程可以通过多种方式使STEM学生受益，包括(a)为那些进入大学却不知道毕业后将如何使用学位的人扩大就业选择，(b)为他们提供一个令人信服的环境来学习数学和计算概念，从而帮助他们保留。(c)要求他们在跨学科团队中工作，并随后学习如何更有效地传播科学。形成性和总结性评估将包括比较S-STEM参与者的保留率以及对STEM荣誉项目学生和PLNU一般STEM人群的满意度。评估结果和项目总体信息的传播将通过一个网站和由计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组或工业与应用数学学会主办的全国会议进行。这项工作还将在联合数学会议上发表（由工业数学和数学生物学的特殊兴趣小组参加）。结果将提交给学科教育期刊，如PRIMUS：数学本科研究中的问题，资源和问题，化学教育杂志和物理评论专题-物理教育研究。

This proposal will award scholarships to academically talented Biology, Chemistry, and Physics majors interested in careers and graduate education, who also demonstrate financial need. The scholarship recipients will form a cohort of students who undertake pursuit of a Computational Science minor that will expose them to computational techniques relevant to their major field of study. New and existing support structures will be used to ensure the success of each scholar. Key academic features of this project will include opportunities for participation in undergraduate research, conference presentations and/or publications on this research, and a senior capstone interdisciplinary project in computational science. Talented STEM graduates with a background in computational sciences will help U.S. industries by contributing to a workforce able to compete and innovate in a global economy.Research has shown that a computational science curriculum can benefit STEM students in a variety of ways including (a) expanding employment options for those who enter college loving science without knowing how they will use the degree when they graduate, (b) providing them with a compelling context in which to learn mathematical and computing concepts thereby, aiding retention, and (c) requiring them to work in interdisciplinary teams and subsequently learn how to communicate science more effectively. Formative and summative evaluation will consist of comparisons of S-STEM participant retention rates and satisfaction with students in the STEM Honors Program and the general STEM population at PLNU. Dissemination of the results of evaluation and information about the project in general, will be done through a website and national meetings sponsored by the Special Interest Group for Computer Science Education or the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics. The work will also be presented at Joint Mathematics Meetings (attended by special interest groups on mathematics in industry and mathematical biology). The results will be submitted to disciplinary educational journals such as PRIMUS: Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies, The Journal of Chemical Education, and Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research.