Mount Mary University Jewel Scholars Program to Support Academic and Professional STEM Advancement for Low-Income, Academically-Talented Female Undergraduates

玛丽山大学将启动宝石学者计划(JSP)，以支持两个总体目标：(1)为有经济需求和学术天赋的女性和代表不足的学生扩大进入STEM职业的机会，(2)培养具有独特、不同视角的熟练科学家，他们有助于地方和国家科学进步和创新的整体完整性。芒特玛丽大学由圣母大学修女会创办，旨在“教育女性改变世界”，招收高比例的低收入和少数族裔学生。以著名的非裔美国女性细胞生物学家Jewel Plummer Cobb的名字命名的JSP将为有学术天赋的低收入女性本科生提供经济、学术和实践支持，帮助他们在生物、化学和食品科学化学专业取得成功，并最终在STEM职业生涯中取得成功。通过学者导向、年度3-D分子建模研究研讨会、教师指导、同行辅导和其他综合支持，JSP将发展视觉/空间和研究技能、学术和职业环境中的归属感、作为科学家的认同感和专业技能。JSP将为学者进入STEM劳动力市场做好准备，并为STEM劳动力做出有意义的贡献。芒特玛丽大学将与学术和行业合作伙伴分享吸引和支持有前途的女科学家的最佳做法。芒特玛丽大学宝石学者计划将通过提高毕业率和STEM就业率来满足威斯康星州雇主对熟练、多样化STEM劳动力的需求，并通过一项关于体验式联合课程3-D分子建模研究研讨会是否提高STEM的视觉/空间、认知和假设创造能力的研究，扩大基于证据的研究。JSP将通过以下方式支持学者的持之以恒、毕业和劳动力安置：(1)全面的支持和队列建设，(2)科学知识、身份和技能发展活动，以及(3)支持专业技能和劳动力联系。活动将包括一年一度的学者迎新/务虚会、教师指导、被确定为消耗点的STEM基础课程的同行辅导，以及一年一度的基于探究的3D分子建模研究研讨会。JSP将通过密尔沃基区域经济发展伙伴关系(M7)的人才倡议，将学者与水、食品和饮料以及能源部门的当地STEM雇主联系起来。芒特玛丽大学将扩大本科生STEM学习的证据基础，将STEM特有的保留方法制度化，发展学者的视觉空间和解决问题的技能，以及作为科学家的身份。

Mount Mary University will initiate the Jewel Scholars Program (JSP) to support two overarching goals: (1) expand access to STEM careers for women and underrepresented students who have demonstrated financial need and academic talent, and (2) prepare skilled scientists whose unique, diverse perspectives contribute to the overall integrity of scientific advancement and innovation locally and nationally. Mount Mary University was founded by the School Sisters of Notre Dame to "educate women to transform the world," and enrolls a high percentage of low-income and minority students. Named after noted African American female cell biologist Jewel Plummer Cobb, JSP will provide academically talented, low-income female undergraduate students with the financial, academic, and practical support to succeed in biology, chemistry and food science chemistry majors, and ultimately in STEM careers. JSP will develop visual/spatial and research skills, a sense of belonging within academic and career settings, identification as a scientist, and professional skills through a scholars orientation, yearly 3-D molecular modeling research seminar, faculty mentoring, peer tutoring, and other comprehensive supports. JSP will prepare scholars to enter and meaningfully contribute to the STEM workforce. Mount Mary University will share best practices for engaging and supporting promising female scientists with academic and industry partners. The Mount Mary University Jewel Scholars Program will address Wisconsin employers' needs for a skilled, diverse STEM workforce by improving graduation and STEM career placement rates and expand evidence-based research through a study on whether experiential co-curricular 3-D molecular modeling research seminars increase visual/spatial, cognitive and hypothesis-creation abilities in STEM. JSP will support scholars' persistence, graduation, and workforce placement through: (1) comprehensive supports and cohort-building, (2) scientific knowledge, identity and skills development activities, and (3) supporting professional skills and workforce connections. Activities will include an annual scholars' orientation/retreat, faculty mentoring, peer tutoring in STEM foundation courses identified as attrition points, and a yearly inquiry-based 3D molecular modeling research seminar. JSP will connect scholars with local STEM employers in Water, Food and Beverage, and Energy sectors through the Milwaukee Regional Economic Development Partnership's (M7) Talent Initiative. Mount Mary University will expand the evidence base about undergraduate STEM learning by institutionalizing STEM-specific retention approaches that develop scholars' visual-spatial and problem-solving skills, and identities as scientists.