Providing Academic, Co-curricular and Scholarship Supports for Talented Students Pursuing Associate's, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in the Physical Sciences.

为攻读物理科学副学士学位、学士和硕士学位的优秀学生提供学术、课外活动和奖学金支持。

• 批准号: 2221549
• 负责人: Dean Livelybrooks
• 金额: $ 434.48万
• 依托单位: University of Oregon Eugene
• 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: 2022-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221549&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Providing; Academic; Co; curricular; Scholarship

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at University of Oregon, Umpqua Community College, Lane Community College and Central Oregon Community College. Over its six-year duration, S-STEM scholarships will support 64 unique individuals pursuing degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, and physics during their final year at community college, as transfer students attaining a bachelor’s degree at the University of Oregon, and then through the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, a master’s degree program at University of Oregon that includes a 9-month paid internship. This project will examine the impacts of faculty and near-peer mentorship, cohort-building activities at all levels, and internship programs on the development of students’ perception of their future selves as they progress along pathways to industrial research careers. The project develops a model that establishes and enhances a cross-institutional culture of student mentorship with the aim of increasing retention of low-income students in science while providing a trajectory for alumni to enter high-wage careers.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Project research builds upon models used in K-12 settings and centers on the longitudinal study of relationships between students’ imagining of their futures and their academic engagement and persistence. Through surveys, short journal assignments, and responses to open-ended questions, this research will examine students' choices as they navigate educational transitions and evaluate how mentorship and internship support systems shape their development as future scientists. This project has the potential to advance understanding of effective tools and frameworks to support retention of low socioeconomic students in STEM. Project results will be disseminated to other institutions, state officials, and industry leaders through journal articles, talks, and a video that captures student experiences and highlights student outcomes. 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.

该项目将通过支持俄勒冈大学、Umpqua社区学院、莱恩社区学院和中俄勒冈社区学院的高成就、低收入、有经济需求的学生留校和毕业，来促进国家对受过良好教育的科学家、工程师和技术人员的需求。在为期六年的时间里，S-STEM奖学金将支持独特的个人在社区大学的最后一年攻读化学、生物化学和物理学位，作为俄勒冈大学获得学士学位的转校生，然后通过骑士校园研究生实习计划，这是俄勒冈大学的一个硕士学位项目，包括9个月的带薪实习。这个项目将考察教师和近同行指导、各级队列建设活动和实习计划对学生在通往工业研究职业道路上对未来自我认知的发展的影响。该项目开发了一种模式，旨在建立和加强跨机构的学生导师文化，目的是在为校友提供进入高薪职业的轨迹的同时，增加低收入学生在科学方面的留存。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的STEM学位完成情况。项目研究建立在K-12环境中使用的模型，并以纵向研究学生对未来的想象与他们的学术投入和坚持不懈之间的关系为中心。通过调查、简短的日记作业和对开放式问题的回答，这项研究将考察学生在适应教育转型时的选择，并评估导师和实习支持系统如何塑造他们作为未来科学家的发展。该项目有可能促进对有效工具和框架的理解，以支持在STEM留住社会经济水平较低的学生。项目成果将通过期刊文章、讲座和视频向其他机构、州政府官员和行业领袖传播，以捕捉学生经历并突出学生成果。该项目由NSF的科学、技术、工程和数学奖学金项目资助，该项目旨在增加在STEM领域获得学位的低收入学术天才学生的数量。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业成功、留住、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优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。