Pathways to Interdisciplinary Science, Engineering and Mathmetics

-该项目正在开发一个项目，以吸引更多有前途的本科生进入STEM专业，并为学生参与者未来的职业生涯奠定坚实的基础。纽约城市学院(CCNY)、纽约布朗克斯社区学院(BCCNY)和雷曼学院(Lehman College)有不同的学生群体，大多数学生是代表性不足的少数族裔。这些合作伙伴正在创建一种制度文化和基础设施，以确保学生在整个本科经历中作为学者社区与教师合作。这种互动是通过CCNY正在建立的科学社区中心来促进的，该中心提供充足的空间、强大的计算设施和最先进的多媒体设备，以促进学生的研究、演示和交流。生物信息学这一新兴的交叉学科领域被用作一个统一的主题，将生物学、化学、生物物理学、生物医学工程、计算机科学和应用数学的学习和研究结合在一起。学生以路径学者的身份以三种顺序模式参与该计划：作为同行领导学者、作为生物信息学学者和作为研究学者。CCNY、BCCNY和雷曼兄弟的大一新生被招募为Path计划的负责人，担任专业科学入门课程中同行领导团队学习研讨会的负责人。通过担任同行领导学者，参与科学社区中心的活动，他们开始欣赏书香的学习氛围，并对这个科学社区有一种归属感。在二年级的第二学期，Path学者们学习了更多的计算机技能，并被介绍给生物信息学。在二年级的夏天，有一个为期三周的生物信息学研讨会。培训结束后，巴特韦奖学金获得者在研究实验室工作，开始他们的三年级和四年级。

--The project is developing a program to attract more promising undergraduates to STEM majors and to establish a solid foundation for the student participants' future careers. The City College of New York (CCNY), the Bronx Community College of New York (BCCNY), and Lehman College have diverse student bodies and the majority of the students are under-represented minorities. These partners are creating an institutional culture and infrastructures that ensure students work with faculty as a community of scholars throughout their undergraduate experience. This interaction is facilitated through a Science Community Center, which is being established at CCNY to provide ample space, powerful computational facilities and state of the art multi-media devices to facilitate student research, presentations and communication. The emerging interdisciplinary field of bioinformatics is used as a unifying theme to integrate study and research in biology, chemistry, biophysics, biomedical engineering, computer science and applied mathematics. Students participate in the program as Pathway Scholars in three sequential modes: as a Peer Leader Scholar, as a Bioinformatics Scholar, and as a Research Scholar. Promising CCNY, BCCNY, and Lehman undergraduates at the freshman level are recruited to the Pathway program as leaders of Peer-Lead Team Learning workshops in the introductory science courses for majors. By serving as Peer Leader Scholars and participating in the activities of the Science Community Center, they begin to appreciate a scholarly learning atmosphere and get a sense of belonging to this science community. During the second semester of their sophomore year, the Pathway Scholars learn more computer skills and are introduced to bioinformatics. In the summer of the sophomore year, there is a three-week workshop on bioinformatics. After that training, the Pathway Scholars work in research laboratories for their junior and senior years.