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)扩大女性和代表性不足的学生获得STEM职业的机会，这些学生表现出经济需求和学术才能；(2)培养熟练的科学家，他们独特的、多样化的观点有助于当地和全国科学进步和创新的整体完整性。玛丽山大学由圣母大学姐妹会创立，宗旨是“教育女性改变世界”，招收的低收入和少数族裔学生比例很高。以著名的非裔美国女性细胞生物学家Jewel Plummer Cobb命名，JSP将为学术上有才华的低收入女本科生提供财务、学术和实践支持，以在生物学、化学和食品科学化学专业取得成功，并最终在STEM职业中取得成功。JSP将开发视觉/空间和研究技能，学术和职业设置内的归属感，识别作为一个科学家，并通过学者方向的专业技能，每年3-D分子建模研究研讨会，教师指导，同侪辅导，和其他全面的支持。JSP将准备学者进入并有意义地为STEM劳动力做出贡献。玛丽山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实践。玛丽山大学珠宝学者计划将通过提高毕业率和STEM职业安置率来满足威斯康星州雇主对熟练、多样化的STEM劳动力的需求，并通过一项关于体验式课外3d分子建模研究研讨会是否能提高STEM的视觉/空间、认知和假设创造能力的研究来扩大循证研究。JSP将通过以下方式支持学者的坚持、毕业和劳动力安置：(1)全面支持和队伍建设，(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连接。活动将包括一年一度的学者培训/静修，教师指导，确定为摩擦点的STEM基础课程的同伴辅导，以及一年一度的基于探究式的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）人才计划，将学者与当地的水、食品和饮料以及能源部门的STEM雇主联系起来。玛丽山大学（Mount Mary University）将扩大本科STEM学习的证据基础，通过将STEM特定的记忆方法制度化，培养学者的视觉空间和解决问题的能力，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.