UMEB: DREAMS - Diversity in Research in Environmental And Marine Science

这项来自美国国家科学基金会环境生物学本科生指导（UMEB）项目的奖项将支持汉普顿大学（HU）和威廉玛丽学院弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所（VIMS）之间的独特合作关系。这种伙伴关系将在DREAMS（环境与海洋科学研究多样性）项目中形成。汉普顿大学是全美排名靠前的少数族裔服务机构之一。它在培养成功的科学毕业生方面有着悠久的历史，包括通过其海洋与环境科学系培养出越来越多的环境生物学毕业生。VIMS是一个主要的研究实体，在教育沿海和环境生物学研究生方面享有很高的声誉。该计划的目标是：提高HU学习环境科学的本科生的表现，增加HU环境科学专业的入学率和保留率，增加VIMS研究生课程学生的多样性，并增加总体环境工作人员的多样性。DREAMS是一个全面的项目，强调早期参与研究和强有力的指导，以此来提高本科生的表现和在随后的研究生培训中取得成功的可能性。这一点至关重要，因为环境科学专业少数族裔研究生的数量远远低于获得本科学位的学生数量。DREAMS项目将利用UMEB的承诺，利用汉普顿其他三个正在进行的项目（两个由NOAA赞助，一个由NSF赞助），以及由NSF赞助的汉普顿、VIMS和老道明大学之间的一个新的联合项目，培养海洋科学领域的少数族裔博士。

This NSF award from the Undergraduate Mentoring in Environmental Biology (UMEB) program will support a unique partnership between Hampton University (HU) and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) of the College of William and Mary. This partnership will take form in the DREAMS (Diversity in Research in Environmental And Marine Sciences) program. Hampton University is one of the top ranked minority serving institutions in the nation. It has a history of producing successful graduates in the sciences, including a growing number in environmental biology through its Department of Marine and Environmental Science. VIMS is a major research entity that has a strong reputation for educating graduate students in coastal and environmental biology. The goals of this program are: to enhance the performance of HU undergraduate students studying environmental science, to increase enrollment and retention in HU environmental science programs, to increase the diversity of students in the VIMS graduate program, and to increase the diversity in the environmental workforce in general. DREAMS is a comprehensive program that stresses early involvement in research and strong mentoring as a way to enhance undergraduate performance and the likelihood for success in subsequent graduate training. This is of critical importance, since production of minority graduate students in the environmental sciences is well below that which would be predicted from the pool of students earning undergraduate degrees. The DREAMS program will leverage the UMEB commitment by taking advantage of three other ongoing efforts at Hampton (two sponsored by NOAA, and one by NSF), as well as a new NSF sponsored joint effort between Hampton, VIMS, and Old Dominion University to produce minority PhD's in the ocean sciences.