UMEB: Diversity in Research in Environmental And Marine Science

环境生物学本科生导师(UMEB)项目授予的这一NSF奖将支持汉普顿大学(HU)和威廉与玛丽学院(College Of William And Mary)弗吉尼亚海洋科学研究所(VIMS)之间独特的伙伴关系。这种伙伴关系将在DREAMS(环境和海洋科学研究的多样性)计划中形成。汉普顿大学是全国排名最靠前的少数族裔服务机构之一。它有培养出成功的理科毕业生的历史，包括通过其海洋和环境科学系培养越来越多的环境生物学毕业生。VIMS是一家主要的研究实体，在沿海和环境生物学方面的研究生教育方面享有很高的声誉。该计划的目标是：提高HU本科生学习环境科学的成绩，增加HU环境科学项目的招生和保留率，增加VIMS研究生项目的学生多样性，并增加环境劳动力的总体多样性。DREAMS是一个综合性的项目，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，因为环境科学方面的少数族裔研究生的产量远远低于从获得本科学位的学生池中预测的数量。DREAMS计划将利用UMEB的承诺，利用汉普顿正在进行的其他三项努力(两项由NOAA赞助，一项由NSF赞助)，以及NSF赞助的汉普顿、VIMS和Old Dominion大学联合培养少数族裔海洋科学博士学位的新努力。

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.