Targeted Infusion Project: Collaborative Science Initiative (CSI) Delaware

靶向输注项目：特拉华州协作科学计划 (CSI)

• 批准号: 1818572
• 负责人: LaTia Scott
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Delaware State University
• 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: 2018-06-15 至 2022-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1818572&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Targeted; Infusion; Project; Collaborative; Science

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) graduate programs and/or careers. The project at Delaware State University seeks to strengthen the university's ability to recruit, retain, and graduate underrepresented students in STEM by strengthening the forensic biology program and achieving accreditation by the Forensic Science Education Program Accreditation Commission. Outreach activities to high school students and community members are part of the project.This project has the objectives to: grow the number of students enrolled in and graduating from the forensic biology program; improve the placement rates of graduating seniors into STEM graduate programs or the STEM workforce; and increase the number of criminal justice majors who choose a forensic science minor. This project will revise and upgrade the forensic biology courses and curriculum, increase collaborative efforts with forensic science laboratories and professional organizations at the local, state, and federal level, and develop sustainable internship and mentoring programs to improve student retention and placement into graduate programs and careers post-graduation. The evaluation plan includes a study, that is both qualitative and quantitative, on the trajectories of students majoring in forensic biology and those minoring in forensic science, to identify hurdles that students face during degree completion, and, to put structures in place to address them, thereby improving retention, and degree completion rates.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.

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU- up）通过有针对性的输液项目支持基于证据的创新模式和方法的开发、实施和研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）研究生课程和/或职业。特拉华州立大学的这个项目旨在通过加强法医生物学项目和获得法医科学教育项目认证委员会的认证，加强该大学在STEM领域招募、留住和毕业代表性不足学生的能力。面向高中生和社区成员的拓展活动是该项目的一部分。该项目的目标是：增加法医生物学专业的入学和毕业人数；提高毕业生进入STEM研究生项目或STEM劳动力的安置率；增加刑事司法专业选修法医学辅修的人数。该项目将修订和升级法医生物学课程和课程，加强与法医科学实验室和地方、州和联邦一级的专业组织的合作，并制定可持续的实习和指导计划，以提高学生的保留率和进入研究生课程和毕业后的就业机会。评估计划包括一项定性和定量的研究，对主修法医生物学和辅修法医科学的学生的轨迹进行研究，以确定学生在完成学位时面临的障碍，并建立解决这些障碍的结构，从而提高留校率和学位完成率。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。