Transfer to Interdisciplinary Natural and Mathematical Sciences (TraIN) 2.0

转入跨学科自然与数学科学 (TraIN) 2.0

• 批准号: 2221321
• 负责人: Susannah Sandrin
• 金额: $ 149.97万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2028-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221321&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Transfer; Interdisciplinary; Natural; Mathematical; Sciences

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 Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. Arizona State University serves a large proportion of Pell eligible, non-traditional and transfer students. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund scholarships for 45 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in interdisciplinary natural and mathematical science majors including biology, forensic science, environmental science, pharmacology/toxicology, biotechnology, statistics, applied mathematics, and applied computing. Transfer students from partner community colleges and preparatory academies will receive scholarships for up to 3 years. This project aims to support students with great potential but fewer opportunities to achieve a college education in high-demand STEM fields within Arizona and across the United States. Students will be retained and supported in their undergraduate degree programs through relationships with faculty mentors, their peer cohort, alumni from the original scholarship project, peer mentors, professionals who will offer “soft skill” workshops, and industry mentors through shadowing in a research laboratory. As an institution with a diverse population of low-income and non-traditional transfer students, this project has the potential to broaden participation within the STEM workforce in the southwestern U.S. and beyond. Furthermore, it will continue to develop a network of scholars who will support future graduating scholars as they enter the STEM workforce.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. This proposal builds on a current project that created a transfer consortium in the Phoenix metropolitan area between three Hispanic-Serving community colleges and the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science at Arizona State University. This new project expands the reach to additional community college and high school partners in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The project will support 45 unique scholars at Arizona State University for up to three years with scholarships of up to $10,000/year, as they work toward a STEM degree. Additionally, the project will remove barriers to student participation in research and internships that improve STEM workforce readiness. This scholarship project plans to study the effectiveness of implementing research and/or internship shadowing with a low-income, diverse and primarily non-traditional transfer population. Project findings should advance the understanding of how less formal shadowing experiences with peer and faculty mentors increase student confidence about seeking out and engaging with longer-term research/internship experiences. Furthermore, the project intends to examine whether students who engage in longer-term research and internship experiences are more likely than their peer group to enter the STEM workforce or graduate school after graduation. This project hopes to build STEM talent by adding new professionals from, and returning these graduates to, the high-need Phoenix job market. These newly minted professionals will be highly connected with other STEM professionals in interdisciplinary fields through shadowing and internship experiences, allowing them to be influential innovators for the future of STEM, and mentors to STEM students who follow in their footsteps. Project staff will disseminate best practices to other colleges and universities by hosting a workshop, presenting at events such as the AZ Transfer Summit and various national and international meetings, and through publications. 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，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明在亚利桑那州州立大学的跨学科艺术科学的新学院的经济需要。亚利桑那州立大学为大部分符合佩尔条件的非传统和转学生提供服务。在为期5年的时间里，该项目将为45名正在攻读跨学科自然和数学科学专业学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金，这些专业包括生物学，法医学，环境科学，药理学/毒理学，生物技术，统计学，应用数学和应用计算。从合作伙伴社区学院和预备学院转学的学生将获得长达3年的奖学金。该项目旨在支持潜力巨大但机会较少的学生在亚利桑那州和美国各地高需求的STEM领域接受大学教育。学生将通过与教师导师，他们的同龄人，来自原始奖学金项目的校友，同龄人导师，将提供“软技能”研讨会的专业人士以及通过在研究实验室阴影的行业导师的关系，在本科学位课程中获得保留和支持。作为一个拥有低收入和非传统转学生的多元化人口的机构，该项目有可能扩大美国西南部及其他地区STEM劳动力的参与。此外，它将继续发展一个学者网络，这些学者将支持未来即将毕业的学者进入STEM劳动力市场。该项目的总体目标是增加低收入、高成就、有经济需求的本科生完成STEM学位的人数。该提案建立在目前的一个项目的基础上，该项目在凤凰城大都市区建立了一个由三所西班牙裔服务社区学院和亚利桑那州立大学新的跨学科艺术与科学学院组成的转移财团。这个新项目将覆盖范围扩大到凤凰城大都市区的其他社区大学和高中合作伙伴。该项目将支持45名独特的学者在亚利桑那州州立大学长达三年的奖学金高达$10，000/年，因为他们对干学位的工作。此外，该项目将消除学生参与研究和实习的障碍，以提高STEM劳动力的准备程度。该奖学金项目计划研究对低收入、多元化且主要是非传统的转移人口实施研究和/或实习跟踪的有效性。项目研究结果应促进了解如何与同行和教师导师不太正式的阴影经验增加学生的信心，寻找和参与长期的研究/实习经验。此外，该项目旨在研究从事长期研究和实习经验的学生是否比同龄人更有可能在毕业后进入STEM劳动力或研究生院。该项目希望通过从高需求的凤凰城就业市场增加新的专业人员，并将这些毕业生返回到高需求的凤凰城就业市场，来培养STEM人才。这些新崛起的专业人士将通过影子和实习经验与跨学科领域的其他STEM专业人士保持高度联系，使他们成为STEM未来有影响力的创新者，并成为追随他们脚步的STEM学生的导师。项目工作人员将通过举办研讨会、在AZ转学峰会等活动和各种国家和国际会议上发言以及通过出版物向其他学院和大学传播最佳做法。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，并提供有关低收入学生的学术成功、保留、转学、毕业和学术/职业途径的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并且通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响力审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。