Developing a Life Sciences Workforce with Strong Quantitative Skills

培养具有强大定量技能的生命科学员工队伍

• 批准号: 1742241
• 负责人: Michael Larsen
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: Saint Michael's College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1742241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Developing; Life; Sciences; Workforce; Strong

The NSF Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program supports the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. This project at St. Michael's College will provide scholarships to students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in life sciences, in combination with a major or minor in mathematics, computer science, or statistics. Throughout its five years of funding, this project will fund 20 scholarships in five groups of four students. Science graduates with strong complementary mathematical and biological skills are ideally positioned to innovate and drive the United States bioscience economy. This project aims to integrate computational and life science education. The graduating Scholars will have computational skills essential for life science careers, and conversely, science backgrounds to support collaborations that require computational approaches. This project expects to increase the number of students graduating with majors, minors, and double major combinations from life sciences and computational sciences. These efforts aim to bridge the 'culture gap' between computational and life sciences. The project will recruit low income students from different groups, including first generation, female, rural, and other groups that are underrepresented in STEM fields. Graduates of this program are expected to advance scientific understanding in the workforce and to contribute to the U.S. STEM workforce. The project will crosslink successful life science and computationally intensive programs to develop effective interdisciplinary curricula that can educate graduates with strong life science and mathematical skills. To accomplish these goals, it will offer Scholars enrichment colloquia, alumni networking, conference travel, internships, and research opportunities, and will support faculty to build interdisciplinary connections. The project predicts that cohort-strengthening activities will enhance student retention in science and math major/minor combinations. They also expect that mathematically adept students will more often choose to pursue research-based careers than their peers. The project researchers will analyze retention rates in STEM majors, numbers in major/minor combinations, and surveys comparing attitudes towards science in the cohort, other STEM, and non-STEM majors.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.

NSF科学，技术，工程和数学（S-STEM）计划的奖学金支持具有经济需求的高分，低收入学生的保留和毕业。 该项目在圣迈克尔学院（St. Michael's College）将为追求生命科学学士学位的学生提供奖学金，并结合数学，计算机科学或统计学专业或辅修学位。在整个五年的资金中，该项目将资助20个奖学金，分别为五组四个学生。具有强大互补数学和生物学能力的科学毕业生理想地是创新和推动美国生物科学经济的定位。 该项目旨在整合计算和生命科学教育。即将毕业的学者将具有对生活科学职业必不可少的计算技能，相反，科学背景支持需要计算方法的合作。该项目预计将增加通过生命科学和计算科学的专业，未成年人以及双重主要组合的学生的数量。 这些努力旨在弥合计算和生命科学之间的“文化差距”。 该项目将招募来自不同群体的低收入学生，包括第一代，女性，农村和其他在STEM领域的人数不足。该计划的毕业生有望提高劳动力中的科学理解，并为美国的STEM劳动力做出贡献。 该项目将交叉链接成功的生活科学和计算密集的计划，以开发有效的跨学科课程，以教育毕业生具有强大的生活科学和数学技能。为了实现这些目标，它将为学者充实的口语，校友网络，会议旅行，实习机会和研究机会，并将支持教师建立跨学科联系。 该项目预测，加强队列的活动将增强学生在科学和数学专业/次要组合中的保留。 他们还希望，数学熟练的学生将比同龄人更多地选择从事基于研究的职业。 项目研究人员将分析STEM专业的保留率，主要/次要组合的数字以及对比较同类科学，其他STEM和非STEM专业的科学态度进行比较的调查。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来评估Criteria的评估，并被认为是值得的。