STEM Scholarship Excellence Project: Exploring the Effects of Psychosocial Factors on STEM Persistence at an Historically Black College

STEM 奖学金卓越项目：探索心理社会因素对历史悠久的黑人大学 STEM 持久性的影响

• 批准号: 1833960
• 负责人: Melanie Van Stry
• 金额: $ 64.98万
• 依托单位: Lane College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-02-15 至 2025-01-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1833960&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STEM; Scholarship; Excellence; Project; Exploring

This five-year project will support the success of twenty-eight low-income, high-achieving STEM undergraduate students with demonstrated financial need at Lane College, an Historically Black College. Achieving this goal will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. The project will provide scholarships to students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in Biology, Chemistry, Computer Science, Mathematics, and/or Physics. First-year students will receive four-year scholarships and transfer students will receive two-year scholarships. The project aims to increase student persistence in STEM fields by linking scholarships with effective supporting activities. Planned activities include mentoring, undergraduate research experiences, service learning, outreach projects, graduate school preparation, and participation in discipline-specific conferences. With the help of mentors, the Scholars will create Individual Development Plans that define their career goals and steps toward achieving those goals. The project will also support curriculum improvements aimed at increasing first-year student retention in STEM. Because Lane College has a high population of underrepresented students, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields.The overall goal of the project is to increase degree completion of low-income, academically high-achieving undergraduates in STEM fields. Non-cognitive, psychosocial factors, such as fixed and growth mindset, grit, self-efficacy, and attitudes toward science, have been demonstrated to affect student persistence in STEM. This project will investigate the effects of psychosocial factors on STEM students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, many of whom face challenges related to college readiness, academic engagement, and scientific identity. This project will examine the possibility that the Scholar selection process is biased toward students who are predisposed to success because of psychosocial factors, such as growth mindset. It will also investigate the alternative possibility that the Scholars develop certain psychosocial factors associated with academic success as a result of participating in project activities. This project has the potential to advance understanding of how psychosocial factors affect student success in STEM fields, including the success of students from underrepresented groups. This project is funded by NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income, academically high-achieving students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future scientists, engineers, and technicians, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

这个为期五年的项目将支持28个低收入，高成就的STEM本科生在莱恩学院，一个历史上的黑人大学证明了经济需求的成功。 实现这一目标将有助于满足国家对受过良好教育的科学家、数学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。 该项目将为攻读生物学、化学、计算机科学、数学和/或物理学学士学位的学生提供奖学金。 一年级学生将获得四年奖学金，转学生将获得两年奖学金。 该项目旨在通过将奖学金与有效的支持活动联系起来，提高学生在STEM领域的坚持性。 计划的活动包括指导，本科生研究经验，服务学习，外展项目，研究生院的准备，并在特定学科的会议参与。在导师的帮助下，学者们将制定个人发展计划，确定他们的职业目标和实现这些目标的步骤。该项目还将支持旨在提高STEM一年级学生保留率的课程改进。 由于莱恩学院的学生人数偏少，因此该项目有可能扩大STEM领域的参与。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入、学业成绩优异的本科生在STEM领域的学位完成率。非认知，心理社会因素，如固定和成长的心态，勇气，自我效能和对科学的态度，已被证明会影响学生在STEM的坚持。该项目将调查心理社会因素对历史上黑人学院和大学的STEM学生的影响，其中许多人面临着与大学准备，学术参与和科学身份有关的挑战。这个项目将研究的可能性，学者的选择过程是偏向学生谁是倾向于成功，因为心理因素，如成长心态。 它还将调查另一种可能性，即学者们通过参与项目活动，发展出与学术成功相关的某些心理社会因素。该项目有可能促进了解心理社会因素如何影响学生在STEM领域的成功，包括来自代表性不足群体的学生的成功。 该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入，学术成就高的学生的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来科学家、工程师和技术人员的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转移、毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Lane College Science Club: Engaging Students in Undergraduate Research and Outreach

莱恩学院科学俱乐部：让学生参与本科研究和推广

• DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.s1.03917
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The FASEB Journal
• 作者: Van Stry, Melanie;Jones Carter, Candace;Gaber, Farag
• 通讯作者: Gaber, Farag

Exploring Protein Structures of SARS‐CoV‐2 Variants of Concern within an Undergraduate Research Course

在本科研究课程中探索 SARS-CoV-2 变体的蛋白质结构

• DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2022.36.s1.r5340
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: The FASEB Journal
• 作者: Van Stry, Melanie;Billings, Ryan;Cantero, Alondra;McCullough, Mariah
• 通讯作者: McCullough, Mariah

iDATA - Orchestrated WiseCIO for Anything as a Service

iDATA - 为一切即服务精心策划的 WiseCIO

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-73100-7_29
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Advances in Information and Communication. FICC 2021. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
• 作者: Liang, S.;Mak, L.;Keele, E.;McCarthy, P.
• 通讯作者: McCarthy, P.

Engaging Elementary Students in COVID Safety Precautions

让小学生参与新冠病毒安全预防措施

• DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.s1.00267
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The FASEB Journal
• 作者: Adams, Valeanna;Billings, Ryan;Lauderdale, Tra'Mya;Brown, LeShaundria;Barnhill, Serena;Van Stry, Melanie;Jones, Candace
• 通讯作者: Jones, Candace

Exploring the Mechanisms of Antiviral Therapeutics: A 3D Model of SARS‐CoV‐2 RdRp in Complex with Remdesivir

探索抗病毒治疗机制：SARS-CoV-2 RdRp 与瑞德西韦复合物的 3D 模型

• DOI: 10.1096/fasebj.2021.35.s1.02791
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: The FASEB Journal
• 作者: Davis, Michael;Adams, Valeanna;Barnhill, Serena;Billings, Ryan;Brown, LeShaundria;Lauderdale, Tra'Mya;Karamba, Ntirenganyi;Van Stry, Melanie;Jones Carter, Candace
• 通讯作者: Jones Carter, Candace