LSAMP SciComp Skills Building Program

LSAMP SciComp 技能培养计划

• 批准号: 1836400
• 负责人: Noel Blackburn
• 金额: $ 9.38万
• 依托单位: Brookhaven Science Associates, LLC
• 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: 2018-07-15 至 2020-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1836400&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: LSAMP; SciComp; Skills; Building; Program

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in their efforts to significantly increase the numbers of students matriculating into and successfully completing high quality degree programs in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines in order to diversify the STEM workforce. Particular emphasis is placed on transforming undergraduate STEM education through innovative, evidence-based recruitment and retention strategies, and relevant educational experiences in support of racial and ethnic groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. These strategies facilitate the production of well-prepared students highly-qualified and motivated to pursue graduate education or careers in STEM.For the United States (U.S.) to remain globally competitive, it is vital that it taps into the talent of all its citizens and provides exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. In the spirit of this endeavor, Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a US Department of Energy (DOE) multi-discipline research laboratory proposes to pilot a 3-week "Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) SciComp Skills Building Internship Program" with the goal of enabling LSAMP students to develop scientific computing skills to integrate into their regular STEM academic activities and scientific research, thereby increasing their competitiveness and preparation for internship programs and graduate research.This activity has significant societal potential for: (1) increasing the number and quality of underrepresented minority (URM) students at LSAMP institutions who are accepted for participation in advanced science internship programs across the Department of Energy (DOE) complex, (2) advancing knowledge in the STEM disciplines through the promotion of interdisciplinary research activity, and (3) contributing to a more globally competitive STEM workforce who can adeptly wield the power of computing to advance scientific discovery. The intent is to inspire students to pursue a career in the exciting field of scientific computing and/or apply scientific computing to other fields of scientific discovery. Furthermore, the integration of LSAMP program participants and their administrators will strengthen the relationship between the NSF LSAMP program and the DOE research enterprise to increase URM employment at national laboratories and as users of their world-class facilities.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.

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划协助大学和学院努力显著增加学生入学人数并成功完成科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科的高质量学位课程，以使STEM劳动力多样化。 特别强调通过创新的，基于证据的招聘和保留策略，以及相关的教育经验，以支持历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的种族和族裔群体，如非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲印第安人，阿拉斯加原住民，夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民，来改变本科STEM教育。 这些策略促进了准备充分的学生的生产高素质和积极性，以追求研究生教育或在STEM的职业生涯。为了保持全球竞争力，它必须利用所有公民的才能，并在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供卓越的教育准备。 在这一奋进的精神，布鲁克海文国家实验室（BNL），美国能源部（DOE）多学科研究实验室提出试点为期3周的“路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）SciComp技能建设实习计划”，目标是使LSAMP学生发展科学计算技能，融入他们的常规STEM学术活动和科学研究，从而提高他们的竞争力，为实习计划和研究生研究做好准备。这项活动具有重大的社会潜力：（1）增加LSAMP机构中被接受参加能源部（DOE）综合体高级科学实习计划的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生的数量和质量，（2）通过促进跨学科研究活动来推进STEM学科的知识，以及（3）促进更具全球竞争力的STEM劳动力，他们可以熟练地运用计算的力量来推进科学发现。 其目的是激励学生在科学计算的令人兴奋的领域追求职业生涯和/或将科学计算应用于科学发现的其他领域。 此外，LSAMP计划参与者及其管理人员的整合将加强NSF LSAMP计划和DOE研究企业之间的关系，以增加URM在国家实验室的就业机会，并作为其世界级设施的用户。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。