LSAMP BD: Montana State University All Nations Alliance

在路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）的支持下，这个通往博士学位的桥梁活动将为来自多个LSAMP联盟的12名有才华的学生提供在蒙大拿州立大学（MSU）攻读STEM领域博士学位的机会。蒙大拿州是许多不同土著民族的祖先和现代家园，但美国印第安人/阿拉斯加原住民（AI/AN）学生仅占密歇根州立大学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“全民少数民族参与联盟”（All Nations Alliance for Minority Participation）内通往博士学位的新桥梁，密歇根州立大学将努力让代表性不足的少数民族充分参与STEM，并通过为AI/AN博士生提供大量财政支持，支持土著自决和福祉，并实施：1)循证招聘和保留做法；2)与土著文化、价值观和经验相适应的指导和专业发展机会；3)一个创新的支持系统，使学生能够在临时被召唤去履行紧迫的家庭和社区义务时，随时重新加入他们的学位课程。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联合生产的STEM研究生研究项目，为AI/AN学生为21世纪的STEM职业做好准备，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）与国家优先事项相关的科学和技术问题，从用于量子计算的二维材料的大规模制造，到先进的能量存储和转换技术，再到生物膜工程，以及与美国国立卫生研究院洛基山实验室合作的传染性媒介传播疾病。计划中的专业发展研讨会将包括专业和个人的学术导航，负责你的专业轨迹，土著福利，创建和利用同事网络小组，以及从人工智能/人工智能校友那里学到的经验教训。该项目将成为AI/AN学生打造自己灵活、文化响应的STEM博士教育和职业道路的国家模式，将前沿研究和奖学金与土著领导和身份相结合。结果将传播给我们在斯隆本土研究生项目和大学示范指导中心的大学合作伙伴。我们还将在专门研究人工智能/人工智能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池中有很大一部分来自代表性不足的少数民族，该项目预计LSAMP通往博士研究员的桥梁将来自这些群体的学生。因此，该项目将大大有助于扩大学术和科学研究的参与。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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.