PGE/SEP: Project ADVANCE: Developing A Resilient Cohort of Women in Quantitative Sciences

HRD-9979478杜克大学杜克大学的Project Advance将招募和培养一批有才华的一年级女生，她们从事定量科学领域的研究，特别关注数学、计算机科学和统计学。作为一所高度选择性的私立研究型大学，杜克大学吸引了在科学和数学方面表现出卓越成就和高度自尊的女本科生。我们寻求通过开发一个实验项目来维持和增强这些特征，该项目有意将第一年课程的教学部分联系起来，引入创新的跨学科半学分研讨会，旨在培养学生作为科学家的自我认知和身份，并建立指导指导导师的结构，以帮助这个才华横溢的群体成功地度过科学和数学经历。我们的目标是大学第一年，因为它在从高中到本科专业的过渡中发挥着关键作用，在促进妇女作为科学家和数学家的身份，并提供先进的学习和成功的职业生涯所需的技能和经验。这一多层面项目的基础是参与理论和目前对自我认同和负面陈规定型观念等进程的研究，这些进程已被证明有助于或阻碍取得成就。它将提供可在各科学领域推广的实验数据，并作为研究型大学如何在总体上为留住和支持妇女创造更友好的环境，从而促进杰出职业的模式。

HRD-9979478Duke UniversityProject Advance at Duke University will recruit and develop a resilient cohort of talented first-year women students in the quantitative sciences, focusing particularly on mathematics, computer science, and statistics. As a highly selective private research university, Duke attracts women undergraduates with demonstrated excellence in science and mathematics and high self-esteem. We seek to sustain and enhance these characteristics by developing an experimental project that intentionally links pedagogical components of the first-year curriculum, introduces an innovative, interdisciplinary half-credit seminar designed to develop students' self-perceptions and identity as scientists, and establishes a structure for guided mentorships to help this talented cohort navigate successfully through science and mathematics experiences. We have targeted the first college year because of the critical role it plays in the transition from high school to the undergraduate major, in fostering women's identity as scientists and mathematicians, and in providing the skills and experiences requisite for advanced study and successful careers. This multidimensional project builds on the pedagogies of engagement and current research on processes, such as self-identity and negative stereotypes, that have been shown to facilitate or inhibit achievement. It will provide experimental data that can be broadened across the sciences and serve as a model for how research universities, in general, can foster a more welcoming environment for the retention and support of women and, thus, foster careers of distinction.