Graduate Student Scholarships to Advance Community Engaged Solutions to the Grand Challenge of Managing Nitrogen

研究生奖学金旨在推进社区参与的解决方案，应对氮管理的巨大挑战

• 批准号: 1930451
• 负责人: David Lewis
• 金额: $ 100万
• 依托单位: University of South Florida
• 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: 2019-10-01 至 2024-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1930451&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Graduate; Student; Scholarships; Advance; Community

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at the University of South Florida (USF). USF is a large, urban, community-engaged public university that provides STEM education to a diverse student body. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund 95 annual scholarships to 52 students who are pursuing master's degrees in environmental engineering, geosciences, and biology. Students will receive 1.5- to 2-year scholarships. The project aims to increase student persistence in STEM fields by linking scholarships with important supporting activities including mentoring, research experiences, community engagement, and participation in discipline-specific conferences and workshops. Scholars will be assigned faculty mentors and academic advisors, who will supervise student participation in project activities and assure that scholars are achieving important transition connections. The project will also support significant informal interactions between scholars and alumni, and among scholars within their cohorts, to improve retention, student integration, and professional networking. Of principal significance, this project will enhance interdisciplinary training that links geosciences, biology, and engineering to understand and co-design solutions to nitrogen pollution of the environment, while teaching scholars the importance of engaging local affected communities in their professional work. Because USF has a high population of underrepresented students and receives a large number of graduate applications from students of limited means, this project has the potential to broaden participation in STEM fields and to advance understanding of how mentoring, workforce development, and transition connections promote the retention and graduation of this student population.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving graduate students with demonstrated financial need. Three principle objectives will guide the project team. First, to prepare graduate students for STEM employment by providing a broad scope of curricular and co-curricular opportunities, team-building activities, and professional development initiatives. Second, to foster capacity for interdisciplinary problem solving, workforce readiness, and professional socialization. Third, to analyze the effectiveness of activities implemented in this project on recruitment, retention, student success, academic and career pathways, and degree attainment. Student persistence in STEM fields is generally understood to be adversely affected by transition barriers. Yet it can be bolstered through strong mentoring that provides focused interventions, through professional development activities and research experiences that stimulate interest in STEM, and through initiatives and cultural wealth that professionally socialize students to their disciplinary areas while allowing them to maintain cultural identities. However, little is known about how these factors affect low-income students in graduate degree programs. Accordingly, this project will investigate the effectiveness of activities designed to strengthen mentoring relationships, professional development, and transition connections for improving graduate students' success and transitions into STEM career pathways. This investigation will reveal whether students who succeed (high GPAs, persistence, conference participation, degree completion, post-graduation placement) and who report feelings of accomplishment, also report high levels of cultural wealth, measured as various forms of capital. It will also identify specific mentoring, workforce-development, and transition-connection activities that correspond with actual indicators and perceived feelings of student success. This project has the potential to advance understanding of how a broad scope of activities and cultural attributes promote persistence in STEM graduate education. This project will be evaluated with formative and summative approaches that use information acquired through interviews and surveys with faculty mentors and students. Results of this project will be made available by publicizing the findings in both technical and popular communications from the participating academic units and from the education- and community-outreach offices of USF that target audiences such as other institutions of higher education, and the region's public, professional, and scholarly organizations. 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 talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, 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.

该项目将有助于对受过良好教育的科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需要，通过支持高成就，低收入的学生在南佛罗里达大学（USF）证明经济需要的保留和毕业。USF是一所大型的，城市的，社区参与的公立大学，为多元化的学生提供STEM教育。该项目为期5年，每年将为52名攻读环境工程、地球科学和生物学硕士学位的学生提供95个奖学金。学生将获得1.5至2年的奖学金。该项目旨在通过将奖学金与重要的支持活动联系起来，包括指导，研究经验，社区参与以及参与特定学科的会议和研讨会，来提高学生在STEM领域的坚持性。学者将被分配教师导师和学术顾问，他们将监督学生参与项目活动，并确保学者实现重要的过渡连接。该项目还将支持学者和校友之间的重要非正式互动，以及他们的同龄人之间的学者，以改善保留，学生融合和专业网络。最重要的是，该项目将加强跨学科培训，将地球科学、生物学和工程学联系起来，以了解和共同设计环境氮污染的解决方案，同时向学者们传授让当地受影响社区参与其专业工作的重要性。由于南佛罗里达大学的学生人数偏少，并且收到了大量来自财力有限的学生的研究生申请，因此该项目有可能扩大STEM领域的参与，并促进对指导，劳动力发展和过渡联系如何促进这一学生群体的保留和毕业的理解。表现出色且有经济需求的研究生。三个主要目标将指导项目团队。首先，通过提供广泛的课程和课外机会，团队建设活动和专业发展计划，为研究生的STEM就业做好准备。第二，培养跨学科解决问题的能力，劳动力准备和专业社会化。第三，分析在本项目中实施的活动对招聘，保留，学生的成功，学术和职业道路，以及学位获得的有效性。学生在STEM领域的坚持通常被认为是由过渡障碍的不利影响。然而，它可以通过提供有针对性的干预措施的强有力的指导，通过激发对STEM兴趣的专业发展活动和研究经验，以及通过专业地将学生社交到其学科领域同时允许他们保持文化身份的举措和文化财富来支持。然而，很少有人知道这些因素如何影响低收入家庭的学生在研究生学位课程。因此，该项目将调查旨在加强指导关系，专业发展和过渡联系的活动的有效性，以提高研究生的成功和向STEM职业道路的过渡。这项调查将揭示成功的学生（高GPA，坚持，会议参与，学位完成，毕业后安置）和报告成就感的学生是否也报告了高水平的文化财富，衡量为各种形式的资本。它还将确定具体的指导，劳动力发展和过渡连接活动，与实际指标和学生成功的感觉相对应。该项目有可能促进对广泛的活动和文化属性如何促进STEM研究生教育持久性的理解。这个项目将采用形成性和总结性的方法进行评估，这些方法使用通过与教师、导师和学生的访谈和调查获得的信息。该项目的成果将通过参与的学术单位和USF的教育和社区外联办公室的技术和大众传播来公布，这些办公室的目标受众包括其他高等教育机构和该地区的公共，专业和学术组织。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人才的数量，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STEM工作者的教育，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

Enhanced landfill leachate treatment in sequencing batch biofilm reactors ( SBBRs ) amended with zeolite and biochar

用沸石和生物炭改进的序批式生物膜反应器（ SBBR ）中强化垃圾渗滤液处理

• DOI: 10.1002/jctb.6964
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology
• 影响因子: 3.4
• 作者: Gao, Bisheng;Yang, Xia;Dasi, Erica A;Lam, Thanh;Arias, Mauricio E;Ergas, Sarina J
• 通讯作者: Ergas, Sarina J

Determining depth of closure based on time-series beach profiles and empirical formulas: A case study along the Florida coast

根据时间序列海滩剖面和经验公式确定闭合深度：佛罗里达海岸的案例研究

• DOI: 10.34237/1009111
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: Shore & Beach
• 作者: Royer, Elizabeth;Wang, Ping;Cheng, Jun
• 通讯作者: Cheng, Jun

Data from: Inheritance of DNA methylation differences in the mangrove Rhizophora mangle

数据来自：红树林红树DNA甲基化差异的遗传

• DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5102718
• 发表时间: 2021
• 期刊: Zenodo
• 作者: Mounger, Jeannie;Boquete, M. Teresa;Schmid, Marc W.;Granado, Renan;Robertson, Marta H.;Voors, Sandy A.;Langanke, Kristen L.;Alvarez, Mariano;Wagemaker, Cornelis A.M.;Schrey, Aaron W.
• 通讯作者: Schrey, Aaron W.

Where's the Science? Recent Changes to Clean Water Act Threaten Wetlands and Thousands of Miles of Our Nation's Rivers and Streams

科学在哪里？

• DOI: 10.1089/ees.2020.0058
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Environmental Engineering Science
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Mihelcic, James R.;Rains, Mark
• 通讯作者: Rains, Mark

Control of a Single Energetic Event on the Long-term Depth of Closure

单个能量事件对长期闭合深度的控制

• DOI: 10.1142/9789811275135_0262
• 发表时间: 2023
• 期刊: The Proceedings of the Coastal Sediments 2023
• 作者: Royer, Elizabeth;Wang, Ping
• 通讯作者: Wang, Ping