Preparing Leaders and Nurturing Tomorrows Scientists: Botany and Beyond (PLANTS III)

植物III计划将建立一系列年度研讨会和活动，以促进教师，学生，研究人员和植物学及相关学科的职业专业人员之间的指导网络和互动社区，以扩大这些学科的参与。美国植物学会（BSA）将领导这一努力，以支持一个多样化和包容性的植物群落。通过提高对植物的认识和培养一个多元化和包容性的科学家社区，这些活动可以加速发现、研究和应用植物科学。这些活动将吸引植物界和专业植物学会（例如，BSA，植物分类学家的美国社会，植物标本馆馆长的社会）在合作努力，从事本科生，早期职业的专业人士和教师的多元化社区，以影响一个更具包容性的科学界。该计划将为代表性不足的学生提供财政支持，以在多个层面上参与植物学;为历史上被排除在外的学生和教师提供几个接入点，以参与植物科学;并创建一个计划和一系列包容性和可访问的体验，提供持续的个人和社会联系，支持多元化，包容性和公平的植物社区。此外，专业发展研讨会将为教师提供植物科学教育的循证最佳实践，培训以确定科学课堂中的公平和包容障碍，以及让学生参与植物科学研究的方法。所有这些活动对于创造一个多元化和包容性的21世纪劳动力至关重要，他们将负责为全球挑战寻找创造性的解决方案。该奖项反映了NSF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 PLANTS III program will establish a series of annual workshops and activities to foster a mentoring network and community of interactions among faculty, and students, researchers, and career professionals in botany and allied disciplines with the goal of broadening participation in those disciplines. The Botanical Society of America (BSA) will lead this effort in support of a diverse and inclusive botanical community. By addressing plant awareness and cultivating a diverse and inclusive community of scientists, these activities can accelerate discovery, research and applied botanical sciences. These activites will engage the botanical community and professional botanical societies (e.g., BSA, the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, the Society of Herbarium Curators) in a collaborative effort to engage a diverse community of undergraduates, early career professionals, and faculty to affect a more inclusive scientific community. The program will provide financial support for underrepresented students to engage with botany at multiple levels; provide several access points for students and faculty that have been historically excluded, to engage with the botanical sciences; and create a program and series of inclusive and accessible experiences that provide sustained personal and social connections supporting a diverse, inclusive and equitable botanical community. In addition, professional development workshops will provide faculty with evidence-based best practices of botanical science education, training for identifying barriers to equity and inclusion in a science classroom, and methods for engaging a diversity of students in the study of botanical science. All of these activities are critical to creating a diverse and inclusive 21st century workforce that will be charged with finding creative solutions to global challenges.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.