Supporting Undergraduate STEM Students through an Integrated Community of Biology and Mathematics Scholars

该项目将有助于满足国家对高技能科学家，数学家，工程师和技术人员的需求。 它将通过向20名来自农村、学术上有天赋的本科生提供奖学金来实现这一目标。 学者将获得长达四年的支持，以攻读数学或生物学学士学位。 作为该项目的一部分，学者将有机会在一个提供协作学习活动的环境中共同生活。该项目将在其他学生支持经验中应用循证实践，包括夏季计算夏令营，早期研究经验和家长教育。 该项目的活动预计将广泛受益于STEM学生和教师在大学，从而扩大了该计划的影响，谁将直接由该项目支持的学者.该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生的STEM学位完成证明经济需要. 项目目标包括：1）招募20名学者，增加数学和生物学专业的整体入学人数; 2）调整，实施和维持课程，课外活动和支持服务，以实现90%的学者五年毕业率; 3）确保学者准备进入STEM职业或生物数学研究生院;和4）生成有关项目活动有效性的知识。 学者将在第一年前的夏天参加为期一周的住宅计算技能夏令营。 这种经验将为学者提供代数函数和介绍统计的审查，从而提高他们在大学数学课程的成功。该项目将采用以前由NSF资助的学习社区和同伴指导模式，以支持学生群体在STEM课程中取得成功，特别是数学。在这种适应，同侪学术教练将协助数学背诵会议。该项目将支持“S-STEM导航员”，他将作为导师，帮助一年级学生在社会和学术上适应大学。该项目将为农村、学术天赋高、低收入家庭的学生攻读STEM学位的教育提供新的知识。 该项目由NSF科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，旨在增加低收入学术天才学生的数量，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。

This project will help meet the national need for highly-skilled scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians. It will do so by giving scholarships to a cohort of twenty rural, academically talented undergraduate students. The Scholars will receive up to four years of support to pursue bachelor’s degrees in mathematics or biology. As part of the project, Scholars will have the opportunity to live together in an environment that provides collaborative learning activities. The project will apply evidence-based practices in other student support experiences, including a summer computation camp, early research experiences, and parental education. The project activities are expected to broadly benefit STEM students and faculty at the University, thereby extending the program's impact beyond the Scholars who will be directly supported by the project.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Project aims include to: 1) recruit twenty Scholars and increased overall enrollment in mathematics and biology majors; 2) Adapt, implement, and sustain curricular, co-curricular, and support services to achieve a 90% five-year graduation rate of Scholars; 3) Ensure that Scholars are prepared for entry into STEM careers or graduate school in biomathematics; and 4) Generate knowledge about the effectiveness of the projects’ activities. Scholars will participate in a one-week residential computational skills camp in the summer before their first year. This experience will provide Scholars with a review of algebraic functions and introductory statistics, thus enhancing their success in college mathematics courses. The project will adapt a learning community and peer mentoring model that was previously funded by the NSF to support the success of student cohorts in STEM courses, particularly mathematics. In this adaptation, peer academic coaches will assist with math recitation sessions. The project will support an "S-STEM Navigator” who will serve as a mentor to help first-year students adjust socially and academically to the University. This project will contribute new knowledge about the education of rural, academically talented, low-income students pursuing STEM degrees. This project is funded by the NSF 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.