Scholarships to Support STEM majors Computational Sciences Minors

该提案将向对职业和研究生教育感兴趣的有学术天赋的生物学，化学和物理学专业的学生颁发奖学金，他们也表现出经济需求。奖学金获得者将形成一个学生谁承担追求计算科学未成年人，这将使他们接触到与他们的主要研究领域的计算技术的队列。 新的和现有的支持结构将用于确保每个学者的成功。 该项目的主要学术特点将包括参与本科研究，会议演示和/或出版物的机会，以及在计算科学高级顶点跨学科项目。具有计算科学背景的优秀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行业。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）为那些进入大学热爱科学但不知道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背景下，学习数学和计算的概念，从而帮助保留，（c）要求他们在跨学科的团队工作，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S-STEM参与者保留率和满意度的比较与学生在STEM荣誉计划和一般STEM人口在PLNU。 将通过计算机科学教育特别兴趣小组或工业和应用数学学会主办的一个网站和国家会议，传播评估结果和关于该项目的一般信息。 这项工作还将提交联合数学会议（出席特别兴趣小组对数学工业和数学生物学）。 结果将提交给学科教育期刊，如PRIMUS：问题，资源和数学本科研究的问题，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.