LSAMP BD: Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia-North Carolina Alliance (2022-2024)

弗吉尼亚-北卡罗莱纳路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP VA-NC联盟）博士学位（BD）活动将为来自多个LSAMP联盟的12名优秀学生提供在弗吉尼亚联邦大学攻读STEM领域博士学位的机会。该计划的总体目标是通过解决URM参与STEM研究生教育的已知障碍来扩大STEM研究生课程的参与，包括STEM研究生课程中缺乏学术和社会融合，缺乏STEM相关的专业指导以及对研究自我效能的支持。该项目将实施一个全面的计划，包括严格的学术准备，指导活动和培训，研究培训经验，以及BD研究员的专业发展活动。实现计划目标的目标包括多层次的招聘战略，为BD研究员提供支持的轨道模型的开发，活动，使90%的研究员在最初入学后6年内完成博士学位，以及有助于了解影响，优势，该项目将有助于推进美国国家科学基金会的使命“促进科学进步：“促进国家健康，繁荣和福利，或确保国防”及其2018-2022年战略计划：“促进更有能力和多样化的研究队伍的发展，并提高国家的科学和创新技能。该项目将增加博士学位的数量。通过让BD研究员发现并随后进行最先进的研究来提高科学家的水平。研究员将与受人尊敬的STEM教师一起在STEM学科的多样性，导致博士学位，并最终在研究和教学的职业生涯，从而有助于我们国家的STEM企业。由于LSAMP学士学位获得者的招聘库包括来自代表性不足的少数民族人口的高比例个人，该项目预计BD研究员将是来自这些群体的学生。因此，该项目将大大有助于扩大对教育和科学研究的参与。项目的成功将有助于招聘和留住未来的STEM学者，在项目结束后很长一段时间。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得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的支持。

The Virginia-North Carolina Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP VA-NC Alliance) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) activity will offer 12 talented students from multiple LSAMP alliances the opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees in STEM fields at Virginia Commonwealth University. The overall goal of the program is to broaden participation in STEM graduate programs by addressing known barriers to URM participation in STEM graduate-level education, including lack of academic and social integration within STEM graduate programs, lack of STEM-related professional mentoring, and support for research self-efficacy. The project will implement a comprehensive program that includes rigorous academic preparation, mentoring activities and training, research training experiences, and professional development activities for the BD Fellows. The objectives for achieving the program goals include a multi-tiered recruitment strategy, development of an orbital model of support for BD Fellows, activities such that 90% of the Fellows complete the doctorate within 6 years of initial enrollment, and evaluation contributing to understanding the impacts, strengths, and weaknesses of the program for advancing knowledge.The project will contribute to advancing the NSF’s Mission “To promote the progress of science: “to advance the national health, prosperity and welfare, or to secure the national defense” and its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan to: “foster the growth of a more capable and diverse research workforce and advance the scientific and innovation skills of the nation.” This project will increase the number of Ph.D.-level scientists by having BD Fellows discover, and subsequently conduct, state-of-the art research. Fellows will work alongside esteemed STEM faculty in a diversity of STEM disciplines, leading to a doctoral degree, and, ultimately, careers in research and teaching, thus contributing to our nation’s STEM enterprise. As the recruitment pool of LSAMP baccalaureate recipients includes a high proportion of individuals from underrepresented minority populations, the project anticipates that BD Fellows will be students from these groups. Therefore, the project will contribute significantly to broadening participation in academe and science research. Project success will aid in the recruitment and retention of future STEM scholars, long after the project has ended.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.