PGE/SEP: Retaining Undergraduate Women in the Sciences: A Laboratory Research Program

印第安纳大学布卢明顿分校（IUB）的女性参与科学项目（WISP）正在创建一个研究奖学金项目，鼓励女性攻读科学学位和从事科学事业。本科研究奖学金（URF）计划将为在科学领域表现出潜力和兴趣的高年级本科女性提供研究经验。从2001年夏季开始，理科三年级女学生将在IUB教师的主持下参与研究，并将持续到2001-2002学年。参加者亦会为有意修读理科专业的女本科生担任导师。大学研究资助计划将于2000-2001学年物色合资格的学生，于2001年夏季开始实验室工作。该计划将贯穿2001-2002学年的夏季和秋季和春季学期。通过关注高年级学生，该项目希望帮助学生获得从事实验室研究或研究生院竞争所需的经验。学生还将被要求写一篇论文和展示他们研究的海报，以提高他们的沟通、写作和演讲技巧，使他们在他们的领域更具竞争力。URF计划提供的实验室经验将提高参与者的研究能力，并将增加对科学工作和研究生院专业的兴趣和准备。参与者、教师导师、同伴研究人员和大二学生之间的互动将增加对科学领域女性的支持系统。URF计划的首要目标是增加获得理科学士学位的女性毕业生人数，并在毕业后将她们留在理科领域。

The Women in Science Program (WISP) at Indiana University-Bloomington (IUB), is creating a research fellowship program to encourage women to pursue science degrees and science careers. The Undergraduate Research Fellowship (URF) Program for Women in the Science will provide research experience to upper-division undergraduate women who have shown potential and interest in the sciences. Third-year women science majors will participate in researh under the auspices of IUB faculty starting the summer of 2001 and continuing for the 2001-2002 academic year. The participate will also serve as mentors to lower-division undergraduate women interested in pursuing science majorsThe URF Program will identify qualified students during the 2000-2001 school year to begin laboratory work in the summer of 2001. The Program will run through the summer and through both fall and spring semesters of the 2001-2002 academic year. By focusing on upper-division students, the Program hopes to assist students to gain the experience they need to pursue careers in laboratory research or to be competitive for graduate school. Students will also be required to write a paper and present posters on their research to increase their communication, writing and presentation skills, to make them more competitive with others in their field. The laboratory experience provided by the URF Program will enhance the participants' research capabilities and will increase interest in and preparation for jobs and graduate school majors in the sciences.The interactions among the participants, faculty mentors, fellow lad researchers, and the sophomore mentees will increase the support system for women in the sciences. The overarching goal of the URF Program is to increase the number of females that graduate with Bachelor's degrees in the sciences and to retain them in science fields after graduation.