LSAMP BD: Montana State University All Nations Alliance

从路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）的支持下，这座桥博士活动将提供来自多个LSAMP联盟的12名优秀学生有机会在蒙大拿州立大学（MSU）攻读STEM领域的博士学位。蒙大拿州是许多不同的原住民的祖先和现代家园，但美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）学生仅占MSU STEM博士生的2%。在全国范围内，只有105名AI/AN学生在2020/21年度完成了所有领域的研究博士学位。作为一个新的桥梁博士学位网站内的所有国家联盟少数民族参与，密歇根州立大学将致力于充分参与代表性不足的少数民族在干，以及支持土著自决和福祉提供重大财政支持，以AI/AN博士生和实施：1）基于证据的招聘和保留做法; 2）适合土著文化、价值观和经验的指导和专业发展机会;和3）一个创新的支持系统，使学生能够随时重新加入他们的学位课程，如果暂时叫走，以满足紧迫的家庭，社区义务。除了对密歇根州立大学新颖的“回归学习”模式的有效性进行实证评估外，该项目还将支持参与式和共同制作的STEM研究生研究项目，为AI/AN学生在21世纪的STEM职业生涯做好准备，同时确保与部落社区合作伙伴的互惠互利。研究项目将整合本土研究方法和价值体系（关系，责任，互惠和再分配）与有关国家优先事项的科学和技术问题，从大规模制造用于量子计算的2-D材料，到先进的能量存储和转换技术，到生物膜工程，以及与NIH的落基山实验室合作的传染病媒传播疾病。计划中的专业发展研讨会将包括学术导航和个人，负责你的专业轨迹，土著福祉，创建和利用同事网络组，以及从AI/AN校友那里学到的经验教训。该项目将作为AI/AN学生的国家模式，以开拓自己灵活，文化敏感的STEM博士教育和职业道路，将尖端研究和奖学金与土著领导力和身份相结合。结果将传播给我们的大学合作伙伴在斯隆土著研究生课程和示范指导大学中心。我们还将在专门研究AI/AN教育的会议上展示研究结果。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比例很高，该项目预计LSAMP博士学位研究员的桥梁将是来自这些群体的学生。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。

With support from the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) this Bridge to Doctorate Activity will offer 12 talented students from multiple LSAMP alliances the opportunity to pursue doctoral degrees in STEM fields at Montana State University (MSU). Montana is the ancestral and modern-day home of many different Indigenous Peoples, yet American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) students comprise only 2% of STEM doctoral students at MSU. Broadly across the nation, only 105 AI/AN students completed a research doctorate across all fields in 2020/21. As a new Bridge to Doctorate site within the All Nations Alliance for Minority Participation, MSU will work towards full participation of underrepresented minorities in STEM as well as support Indigenous self-determination and well-being by providing significant financial support to AI/AN doctoral students and implementing: 1) evidence-based recruitment and retention practices; 2) mentorship and professional development opportunities adapted to Indigenous cultures, values, and experiences; and 3) an innovative support system that enables students to readily rejoin their degree programs if temporarily called away to meet pressing family and community obligations. In addition to empirically evaluating the efficacy of MSU’s novel Return to Learn model, this project will support participatory and co-produced STEM graduate research projects that prepare AI/AN students for 21st-century STEM careers while ensuring reciprocal benefits with Tribal community partners. Research projects will integrate Indigenous research methodologies and value systems (Relationship, Responsibility, Reciprocity, and Redistribution) with scientific and technological questions pertaining to national priorities ranging from large-scale manufacturing of 2-D materials for quantum computing, to advanced energy storage and conversion technologies, to biofilm engineering, and infectious vector-borne diseases in collaboration with NIH’s Rocky Mountain Lab. Planned professional development workshops will then include Navigating Academia Professionally and Personally, Taking Charge of Your Professional Trajectory, Indigenous Well-being, Creating and Leveraging Colleague Network Groups, and Lessons Learned from AI/AN Alumni. This project will serve as a national model for AI/AN students to carve their own flexible, culturally-responsive STEM doctoral education and career paths that integrate cutting-edge research and scholarship with Indigenous leadership and identity. Results will be disseminated to our university partners in the Sloan Indigenous Graduate Programs and The University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring. We will also present findings at conferences that specialize in AI/AN education. As the recruitment pool of LSAMP baccalaureate recipients includes a high proportion of individuals from underrepresented minority populations, the project anticipates that LSAMP Bridge to Doctorate Fellows will be students from these groups. Therefore, the project will contribute significantly to broadening participation in academe and science research.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.