LSAMP BTD: Texas A&M University System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate Cohort XIII (2018-2020) Program

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。 该LSAMP桥梁博士（BD）活动的目标是提高数量和质量的STEM研究生从代表性不足的人口，重点是博士预科和完成。 在国家高等教育机构实施的BD计划有助于解决NSF 2018-2022战略计划中的目标之一，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与STEM博士学位。得克萨斯州A M工程实验站将是2018-2020年得克萨斯州A M大学系统路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（TAMUS LSAMP）桥梁博士学位计划的主办网站。 来自STEM历史上代表性不足的团体的12名首次研究生将被选为BD研究员。 研究员将培养两年作为一个队列社区受益于学术和个人发展活动和社会支持的计划，以维持他们的承诺和成功，他们的学位课程，并在第二年年底前向博士课程迈进。 BD学生，具有不同的STEM学科和共同的目的，将相互分享协调的资源和智力丰富的团体活动，并与德克萨斯州A M的STEM，少数民族和其他研究生的更大人口，以造福所有人。 该TAMUS LSAMP BD项目在得克萨斯州A M将加强研究和教育的基础设施，通过推进追求研究生和博士STEM学位。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

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 PhD 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.Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station will be the host site for the 2018-2020 Texas A&M University System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (TAMUS LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate Program. Twelve first-time graduate students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM will be selected as BD Fellows. The Fellows will be nurtured for two years as a cohort community benefiting from a program of academic and personal development activities and social support, to sustain their commitment and success to their degree programs and advancement toward doctoral programs by the end of their second year. The BD students, with differing STEM disciplines and a common purpose, will share coordinated resources and intellectually enriching group activities with each other, and with the larger population of STEM, minority and other graduate students at Texas A&M, to the benefit of all. The TAMUS LSAMP BD project at Texas A&M will enhance the infrastructure of research and education by advancing pursuit of graduate and doctoral STEM degrees.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.