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，这一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人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)学生只占密歇根州立大学STEM博士生的2%。在2020/21年度，全国只有105名人工智能/人工智能学生完成了所有领域的研究型博士学位。作为所有联合国少数群体参与联盟内通往博士学位地点的新桥梁，密歇根州立大学将致力于让未被充分代表的少数群体充分参与STEM，并通过为AI/AN博士生提供大量财政支持来支持土著自决和福祉，并实施：1)以证据为基础的招聘和保留做法；2)适应土著文化、价值观和经验的导师指导和专业发展机会；以及3)创新的支持系统，使学生在被临时召唤以满足紧迫的家庭和社区义务时，能够随时重新加入他们的学位计划。除了对密歇根州立大学新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制作的STEM研究生研究项目，这些项目为AI/AN学生为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互惠互利。研究项目将与NIH落基山实验室合作，将本土研究方法和价值体系(关系、责任、互惠和再分配)与与国家优先事项有关的科学和技术问题结合起来，从大规模制造用于量子计算的2-D材料，到先进的能源储存和转换技术，再到生物膜工程，以及传染病媒介传播的疾病。计划中的专业发展研讨会将包括专业和个人指导学院，负责你的职业发展轨迹，土著福祉，创建和利用同事网络小组，以及从人工智能/校友那里学到的经验教训。该项目将成为AI/AN学生开拓自己灵活的、适应文化的STEM博士教育和职业道路的国家典范，将尖端研究和学术与土著领导力和身份认同相结合。结果将分发给我们在斯隆土著研究生项目中的大学合作伙伴和大学模范辅导中心。我们还将在专门研究人工智能/AN教育的会议上展示研究结果。由于LSAMP文凭获得者的招聘池中有很大比例的少数族裔人口比例较低，该项目预计LSAMP通向博士研究生的桥梁将是这些群体的学生。因此，该项目将大大有助于扩大对学术和科学研究的参与。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。

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.