LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate at UMES

Louis Stokes少数族裔参与联盟(LSAMP)计划通过培养在STEM学科中历来代表性较低的群体中具有高度竞争力的学生，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力的多样化：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美国印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。LSAMP通向博士的桥梁(BD)活动的目标是提高STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士入学和完成学业。在国家高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现NSF 2018-2022年战略计划中的目标之一，即“促进更有能力和多样化的研究劳动力的增长，并提高国家的科学和创新技能。”这笔赠款的愿景是提供一个全国模式，培养出拥有STEM博士学位的代表不足的科学家和工程师。马里兰东岸大学(UMES)是马里兰州1890年历史上的黑人土地赠与机构，将成为2018-2020年马里兰大学系统(USM)路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与桥梁博士(LSAMP BD)计划的举办地。UMES计划的活动将为LSAMP BD研究员的不同研究生提供毒理学、食品科学和海洋科学方面的研究培训。这些科学领域传统上不会吸引来自代表性不足群体的学生。UMES的BD研究员计划将促进对STEM领域中代表性不足学生的毕业生招聘、留住和坚持的知识和理解，特别强调利用UMES沿海环境进行STEM研究。UMES位于马里兰州东岸，靠近切萨皮克湾和大西洋。BD研究员将获得海洋学、环境化学、渔业和海洋生态学、微生物学和生理学等专业领域的研究经验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES), Maryland's historically black 1890 land grant institution, will be the host site for the 2018-2020 University System of Maryland (USM) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate (LSAMP BD) Program. The activities of UMES's program will provide diverse graduate students who are LSAMP BD Fellows with research training in toxicology, food science, and marine sciences. These are areas of science that do not traditionally engage students from underrepresented groups. The BD Fellows Program at UMES will advance knowledge, and understanding of graduate recruitment, retention, and persistence of underrepresented students in STEM fields, with particular emphasis on STEM research that takes advantage of UMES' coastal environment. UMES is uniquely located on the eastern shore of Maryland which is near both the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. BD Fellows will obtain research experience in specializations such as oceanography, environmental chemistry, fisheries and marine ecology, microbiology, and physiology.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.