COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: Upper Delta Region Biodiversity Scholarship

合作研究：上三角洲地区生物多样性奖学金

• 批准号: 1564954
• 负责人: Travis Marsico
• 金额: $ 327.17万
• 依托单位: Arkansas State University Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2023-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1564954&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: COLLABORATIVE; RESEARCH; Upper; Delta; Region

This National Science Foundation (NSF) Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) project is a collaborative effort between Arkansas State University, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, and Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky. The Upper Delta Region Biodiversity program will provide scholarships and other support to 44 graduate students and 68 undergraduate students from these institutions. These academically talented and low-income students will participate in scientific research efforts involving the Upper Mississippi Alluvial Plain. Activities will include the collection and maintenance of natural history specimens and the use of these in ecological research for species discovery, patterns of genetic diversity and isolation, and impacts of habitat degradation and other environmental change. Student participation in this type of research and associated academic collaborations with peers are known to improve retention and persistence. This project will seek to improve student success through scholarship-associated supports in a program focused on biodiversity and biodiversity collections. The project will also study how student identification with a research community and other groups, along with the development of academic peer networks contribute to student success. Scholarships and support for low-income and academically talented students, who may not otherwise be able to obtain STEM degrees, will help to produce a well-trained workforce that will contribute to the economic well being of the nation.In addition to scholarships, the Upper Delta Region Biodiversity program will provide support in the form of a cohort curriculum, peer mentoring, faculty mentoring, professional development seminars, research participation and support, participation in professional society meetings, and summer opportunities including specialized coursework and participation in summer institutes. Network analysis will be used to map the extensity and density of student academic networks. A matched control group will be used. The study will help determine the characteristics of student academic networks and group identification associated with retention and degree completion. Participating institutions are members of the Delta Research Consortium, and this project will help to establish a model for multi-institutional research collaboration helping to promote STEM degree attainment. The findings from the program will be disseminated to the nation's STEM education community and will help to increase understanding of the attributes and practices of successful student scholarship and support programs for academically talented, low-income students.

这个国家科学基金会（NSF）科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）项目是阿肯色州立大学、卡本代尔的南伊利诺伊大学和肯塔基州默里的默里州立大学共同努力的结果。上三角洲地区生物多样性项目将为来自这些机构的44名研究生和68名本科生提供奖学金和其他支持。这些学术上有天赋的低收入家庭学生将参与涉及密西西比河上游冲积平原的科学研究工作。活动将包括收集和保存自然历史标本，并利用这些标本进行生态研究，以发现物种、遗传多样性和隔离模式、生境退化和其他环境变化的影响。众所周知，学生参与这类研究以及与同龄人进行相关的学术合作可以提高记忆力和持久性。该项目将通过奖学金支持一个专注于生物多样性和生物多样性收集的项目来提高学生的成功。该项目还将研究学生对研究团体和其他团体的认同，以及学术同伴网络的发展如何有助于学生的成功。为低收入和有学术天赋的学生提供奖学金和支持，这些学生可能无法获得STEM学位，这将有助于培养训练有素的劳动力，为国家的经济福祉做出贡献。除奖学金外，上三角洲地区生物多样性项目还将以队列课程、同伴指导、教师指导、专业发展研讨会、研究参与和支持、参加专业协会会议以及包括专业课程和参加暑期学院在内的暑期机会的形式提供支持。网络分析将用于绘制学生学术网络的广度和密度。将使用匹配的对照组。该研究将有助于确定学生学术网络的特征以及与保留和学位完成相关的群体认同。参与研究的院校均为三角洲研究联盟的成员，而这项计划将有助建立一个多院校合作研究的模式，以推动学生取得STEM学位。该项目的研究结果将传播给美国的STEM教育界，并将有助于加深对成功的学生奖学金和支持项目的属性和实践的理解，这些奖学金和支持项目面向有学术天赋的低收入学生。