LSAMP BD:Howard University Washington Baltimore Hampton Roads

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划帮助大学和学院通过培养具有高度竞争力的学生来实现STEM劳动力的多样化，这些学生来自历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体：非洲裔美国人，阿拉斯加原住民，美洲印第安人，西班牙裔美国人，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民。 LSAMP桥梁博士（BD）活动的目标是提高STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士学位。入学和毕业。 在国家高等教育机构实施的BD计划有助于实现NSF 2018-2022战略计划的目标之一，即促进更有能力和多样化的研究队伍的发展，并提高国家的科学和创新技能。 该补助金的愿景是提供一个全国性的模式，以产生代表性不足的科学家和工程师在干博士学位。霍华德大学将是2018-2020年华盛顿巴尔的摩汉普顿路路易斯斯托克斯联盟少数民族参与桥梁博士学位计划的主办网站。 凭借其历史实力，成为全国领先的非裔美国人高等学位毕业院校，以及少数民族工程师和科学家的头号生产者。霍华德大学旨在实施专注于指导，专业写作和课堂教学经验的活动，这将支持在STEM历史上代表性不足的有竞争力的博士生的发展。 这些活动将通过保留的研究生院办公室的支持，以及指导和支持和准备未来的教师计划得到加强。 此外，现存的霍华德大学NSF研究生教育联盟和教授项目之间的关系将建立和利用，以进一步增加BD学者的利益。 在霍华德大学的BD项目将是一个重要的一步，在促进职业意识和准备的代表性不足的少数民族学生在干，并获得就业机会，因为他们在他们的教育追求的进步。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得的支持，通过评估使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through the development of highly competitive students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The goal of the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity is to increase the quantity and quality of STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations, with emphasis on Ph.D. matriculation and completion. BD programs implemented in the nation's institutions of higher education contribute to addressing one of the objectives in NSF's 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, namely to foster the growth of a more capable and diverse research workforce and advance the scientific and innovation skills of the Nation. The vision of this grant is to provide a national model to produce underrepresented scientists and engineers with doctoral degrees in STEM.Howard University will be the host site for the 2018-2020 Washington Baltimore Hampton Road Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate Program. Drawing upon its historical prowess of being the leading institution in the country that graduates African Americans with advanced degrees, and the number one producer of minority engineers and scientists. Howard University seeks to implement activities that focus on mentoring, professional writing, and classroom teaching experiences, which will support the development of competitive doctoral candidates historically underrepresented in STEM. These activities will be enhanced by the support of the Graduate School Office of Retention, and the Mentoring and Support and Preparing Future Faculty programs. Additionally, relationships between the extant Howard University NSF Alliances for Graduate Education and the Professoriate project will be established and leveraged to further increase the benefit to BD scholars. The BD project at Howard University will be an important step in advancing the career awareness and preparation of underrepresented minority students in STEM and their access to career opportunities as they progress in their educational pursuits.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.