Optimizing the Research Intern Experience to Build Inclusion and Diversity in the geosciences workforce: June 27-29, 2019: Woods Hole, MA

第一部分研讨会将支持在地球科学领域建立多样性和包容性的努力。通过促进URM STEM研究实习项目的复制和成功，来促进劳动力。研讨会还将继续并支持加强hbcu与地球科学研究界之间的合作，特别是包括伍兹霍尔的六个公共和私营科学机构。此外，研讨会将为港大地球科学研究实习项目的毕业生提供一个重要的职业发展机会，他们将参加并展示他们的成功经验，并加强与同事的关系。研讨会将对最佳实践和下一步工作进行明确总结，以便将本科研究项目与hbcu联系起来，在一个对学生来说是新的，对教师和顾问来说也是新的研究社区中提供支持性的实习经验。第二部分，提议的研讨会承诺阐明一个新的、更清晰的理解，即本科实习如何为有才华的学生个人服务，以及这些项目如何与hbcu等机构更紧密地协调和真正地合作。提议的研讨会的目标是加强寻求增加地球科学多样性的本科课程。年代的劳动力。具体的研讨会目标是(1)回顾过去十年URM本科生研究经验（REUs）项目和伍兹霍尔合作伙伴教育计划（PEP）的经验、成果、成功和不足；(2)从这些项目中找出最佳做法，以支持其持续成功和复制；(3)在报告中总结这些最佳实践，为寻求建立类似项目的学术和其他研究机构提供指导；(4)让项目校友相互接触，并与研究界的同行和专业人士建立联系。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。

Part 1The workshop will support efforts to build diversity and inclusion in the geosciences? workforce, by facilitating the replication and success of URM STEM research internship programs. The workshop will also continue and support the effort to strengthen collaborations between HBCUs and the geosciences research community, notably including the six public and private science institutions in Woods Hole.Further, the workshop will provide an important career-building opportunity for graduates of URM geosciences research internship programs who participate and present, showcasing their successes and strengthening their relationships with colleagues. The workshop will produce a clear summary of best practices and next steps in the effort to connect undergraduate research programs with HBCUs to provide a supportive internship experience in a research community that is new to the students and often new to the faculty and advisors as well.Part 2The proposed workshop promises to articulate a new, clearer understanding of how undergraduate internships can serve individual students of talent and how these programs can be more closely coordinated with and be truly collaborative with institutions like HBCUs. The goal of the proposed workshop is to strengthen undergraduate programs that seek to increase diversity in the geoscience?s workforce. Specific workshop objectives are (1) to review experiences, outcomes, successes, and shortcomings over the past ten years of URM Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) programs, and the Woods Hole Partnership Education Program (PEP); (2) to identify best practices from these programs, in order to support their sustained success and replication; (3) to summarize these best practices in a report that will provide guidance to academic and other research institutions that seek to establish similar programs; and (4) to engage and connect program alumni with each other, and with peers and professionals in the research community.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.