The Biology, Coastal and Marine Science, Molecular and Cellular Biology, and Neuroscience Scholarship Program

该项目由美国国家科学基金会科学、技术、工程和数学项目奖学金资助，将支持位于康涅狄格州费尔菲尔德的圣心大学（SHU）表现出经济需求的高成就低收入学生。在五年的资助期内，该计划将提供56个年度奖学金，为两组七名学生提供四年的支持。学者们将攻读普通生物学、海岸和海洋科学、分子和细胞生物学或神经科学的学士学位。该项目旨在确保来自较低社会经济背景的学生将拥有强大的教师和同伴关系，以支持学习活动，从而提高学生的成绩和保留率。这个S-STEM轨道2项目将实施以下活动：秋季前定向，以生物学为重点的第一年研讨会课程，教师指导，四门生物学课程的同伴领导团队学习，贯穿四年的学习社区，研究经验，以及研究和职业“stem研讨会”系列。针对学者的基于群体的活动，无论其专业如何，都将使学者接触到生物科学中发现的多样性观点。上海大学将开展一项研究，调查师生支持和学生同伴支持对成绩、留校和毕业的影响。目标是招收14名学生，将原来的14名学生中的12名（86%）保留到二年级，在四年内将14名学生中的10名（71%）保留到毕业，并在毕业后一年内将14名学生中的12名安置到与stem相关的职业或研究生院。离开该项目的学者将被替换。该项目旨在加强与行业合作伙伴和研究生项目的现有关系，并培育新的关系。项目管理团队将获得和传播新的知识，这些知识与在所有四年的学习中提供强有力的教师指导的影响有关，并通过在确定的流失点的课程中实施同伴领导的团队学习来增强同伴关系。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

With funding from the NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, this project will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Sacred Heart University (SHU) in Fairfield, CT. Throughout its five years of funding, this project will fund 56 annual scholarships to provide four years of support for two cohorts of seven students. Scholars will be pursuing bachelor's degrees in general biology, coastal and marine science, molecular and cellular biology, or neuroscience. The project is designed to ensure that students from lower socioeconomic backgrounds will have strong faculty and peer relationships that can support learning activities, thus improving student achievement and retention. This S-STEM Track 2 project will implement the following activities: a pre-fall orientation, biology-focused first-year seminar courses, faculty mentoring, peer-led team learning in four biology courses, learning communities that extend throughout all four years, research experiences, and a research and career "STEMinar" series. Cohort-based activities for the scholars, regardless of major, will expose the scholars to the diversity of perspectives found in the biological sciences. SHU will conduct a research study to investigate the effects of student-faculty and student-peer support on achievement, retention, and graduation. The objectives are to enroll 14 scholars, retain 12 of the original 14 (86%) until their sophomore year, retain 10 of the 14 (71%) through graduation in four years, and place 12 out of 14 in STEM-related careers or graduate school within one year of graduation. Scholars who leave the program will be replaced. The project aims to strengthen existing relationships with industry partners and graduate programs, and to foster new ones. The project management team will gain and disseminate new knowledge related to the impact of providing strong faculty mentoring across all four years of study, combined with enhanced peer relationships through the implementation of peer-led team learning in courses that are identified attrition points.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.