GEM Underrepresented Minority Internships for Chemists, Chemical and Environmental Engineers,and Physicists

GEM 为化学家、化学和环境工程师以及物理学家提供的少数族裔实习机会

• 批准号: 1917467
• 负责人: Marcus Huggans
• 金额: $ 65.8万
• 依托单位: The National GEM Consortium
• 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: 2019-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1917467&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: GEM; Underrepresented; Minority; Internships; Chemists

Promoting progress in science and building a globally competitive workforce, a core part of the National Science Foundation's mission, requires increasing diversity in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). This project is supported by the Divisions of Chemistry and Physics in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, and the Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems in the Engineering Directorate. The GEM Consortium aims to improve diversity in the STEM workforce through a two-pronged approach. First, GEM encourages selected underrepresented minority (URM) students to pursue graduate degrees in STEM fields by ensuring that the students receive a living stipend and tuition while enrolled in a GEM member-university program. Next, GEM provides access to paid internships for the selected students, providing the students with work experience and networking opportunities. Ultimately this project works to illustrate and provide pathways for advanced STEM education and careers for URM students.This project provides training pathways for both Ph.D. and Master's level students in STEM fields, particularly in Chemistry, Chemical and Environmental Engineering, and Physics. GEM consortium-selected URM students apply to the university-member programs, and upon acceptance, GEM provides a stipend towards living expenses and tuition. The universities cover the remainder of the tuition, and in the case of Ph.D. level students, a living stipend (through teaching or research assistantships or other methods) for the duration of the degree. This encourages member universities to accept URM students, while assuring students of the economic feasibility of an advanced degree. Students also participate in a paid internship that GEM helps to arrange, which enables students to build a career network and provides them with work experience.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.

促进科学进步和建设具有全球竞争力的劳动力队伍是美国国家科学基金会使命的核心部分，需要增加科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）的多样性。该项目得到了数学和物理科学理事会化学和物理部门以及工程理事会化学，生物工程，环境和运输系统部门的支持。GEM联盟旨在通过双管齐下的方法提高STEM劳动力的多样性。首先，GEM鼓励选定的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生攻读STEM领域的研究生学位，确保学生在注册GEM成员大学课程时获得生活津贴和学费。接下来，GEM为选定的学生提供带薪实习机会，为学生提供工作经验和社交机会。最终，该项目旨在为URM学生提供高级STEM教育和职业生涯的途径。和硕士水平的学生在干领域，特别是在化学，化学和环境工程，和物理。GEM财团选择的URM学生申请大学成员计划，并在接受后，GEM提供生活费和学费津贴。大学支付其余的学费，在博士学位的情况下。学生，生活津贴（通过教学或研究助学金或其他方法）为学位的持续时间。这鼓励成员大学接受URM学生，同时向学生保证高级学位的经济可行性。学生还可以参加GEM帮助安排的带薪实习，这使学生能够建立职业网络，并为他们提供工作经验。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。