Challenging Problems and Sustainable Solutions - Training a community of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Scholars

挑战性问题和可持续解决方案 - 培训跨学科可持续发展学者社区

• 批准号: 2221468
• 负责人: Andrea Hicks
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221468&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Challenging; Problems; Sustainable; Solutions; Training

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, technicians, engineers and mathematicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison). Over its 6-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to at least 26 full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, environmental science, and mathematics. It will also support at least 6 junior STEM transfer students. The supported students will enroll in one of the multiple sustainability-focused certificates available, meet regularly as a cohort, and will have opportunities to be part of additional professional development experiences. A distinguishing feature of this project is an opportunity for paid summer internships at the Office of Sustainability between the freshman and sophomore year to gain professional experience in sustainability early in the students’ academic careers. In their junior and senior years, students will be part of a Community Environmental Scholars Program seminar, which will help them explore how their STEM discipline and their sustainability focus can connect to community service. The broader impacts of the project will improve access to STEM education for low-income students and ensure their successful degree completion. The project also explicitly connects STEM students with the broad issues of sustainability and community engagement, which can help to create well-rounded graduates while also promoting retention of students in STEM. The intellectual merit of the project involves the development of methods to educate STEM professionals to meet the strategic sustainability needs of the United States. The project meets this challenge by offering cohort-based sustainability training to STEM students from a wide range of disciplines, and explicitly training those students to work in teams as parts of a broader community of sustainability professionals.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project goals and specific aims include increasing the number of low-income STEM students who are sustainability experts. Sustainability has been suggested as an attractive theme with which to recruit and retain students. The project will be evaluated using surveys and interviews to see if it results in better retention and persistence in challenging STEM disciplines. The project results will be shared internally, through teaching and learning networks at UW–Madison, and externally through disciplinary conferences. 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.

该项目将有助于国家需要受过良好教育的科学家，技术人员，工程师和数学家，通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明经济需要在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校（威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校）。在为期6年的时间里，该项目将为至少26名攻读工程、生物、化学、环境科学和数学等学士学位的全日制学生提供奖学金。它还将支持至少6名初级STEM转学生。受支持的学生将参加多个以可持续发展为重点的证书之一，定期作为一个群体见面，并将有机会成为其他专业发展经验的一部分。该项目的一个显着特点是在大一和大二之间的可持续发展办公室带薪暑期实习的机会，以获得可持续发展的专业经验，在学生的学术生涯早期。在大三和大四，学生将参加社区环境学者计划研讨会，这将帮助他们探索他们的STEM学科和可持续发展重点如何与社区服务联系起来。该项目的更广泛影响将改善低收入学生获得STEM教育的机会，并确保他们成功完成学位。该项目还明确地将STEM学生与可持续发展和社区参与的广泛问题联系起来，这有助于培养全面发展的毕业生，同时也促进了STEM学生的保留。该项目的智力价值涉及开发教育STEM专业人员的方法，以满足美国的战略可持续性需求。该项目通过为来自广泛学科的STEM学生提供基于队列的可持续发展培训来应对这一挑战，并明确培训这些学生作为更广泛的可持续发展专业人士社区的一部分在团队中工作。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就且有经济需求的本科生的STEM学位完成率。该项目的目标和具体目标包括增加低收入STEM学生谁是可持续发展专家的数量。可持续性已被建议作为一个有吸引力的主题，与招聘和留住学生。该项目将使用调查和访谈进行评估，以确定它是否会在具有挑战性的STEM学科中产生更好的保留和持久性。该项目的成果将在内部共享，通过教学和学习网络在威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校，并通过学科会议外部。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。