LSAMP BD: University of South Carolina-Columbia, LS SCAMP

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院实现科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化，通过培养来自STEM学科中历史上代表性不足的群体的高竞争力学生：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原住民。LSAMP通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）活动的目标是提高来自代表性不足人群的STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士入学和完成。在美国高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现美国国家科学基金会2018-2022年战略计划的目标之一，即“培养一支更有能力和多样化的研究队伍，提高国家的科学和创新技能”。这项资助的愿景是提供一个全国性的模式，以培养具有STEM博士学位的代表性不足的科学家和工程师。这次LSAMP BD活动的演出地点是南卡罗来纳大学哥伦比亚分校，这是路易斯·斯托克斯南卡罗来纳少数民族参与联盟（LS SCAMP）的14所学院和大学之一。该项目的目标是在南加州大学创建第一个BD项目，并建立一个以证据为基础的可持续项目，招募、指导和支持代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生进入STEM博士项目。除了提供大量的资金支持，使学生能够专注于研究生水平的课程和研究，该项目旨在推动BD学生完成博士水平的研究，将为入学学生和活动提供桥梁项目，重点是交流，通用研究技能，以及适应研究社区的文化。这些项目利用南加州大学广泛的现有资源，旨在促进学生在五年内获得博士学位。BD项目将创建一个包括科学和工程学科的URM学者社区。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。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (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.The performance site for this LSAMP BD Activity is the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia, one of the 14 college and universities included in the Louis Stokes South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation (LS SCAMP). The goal of this project is to create the first BD program at the USC and to establish an evidence-based and sustainable program of recruitment, mentoring, and support of underrepresented minority (URM) students into and through STEM doctoral programs. In addition to providing substantial financial support to enable students to focus full time on graduate-level course work and research, the project, designed to advance BD students toward completion of doctoral level studies, will provide a bridge program for matriculating students and activities focused on communication, universal research skills, and acculturation to the research community. The programs are leveraged by extensive existing resources at the USC and are designed to facilitate the obtainment of doctoral degrees in five years. The BD program will create a community of URM scholars encompassing both sciences and engineering disciplines.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.