UMEB: Fostering Student Confidence and Capability in Environmental Science

这个UMEB项目的目标是（1）通过令人兴奋的研究经验招募更多代表性不足的本科生进入环境生物学，（2）鼓励学生的智力和个人发展，使他们能够在环境科学（ES）社区内取得成功，以及（3）增加代表性不足的学生进入环境生物学研究生课程的人数。该计划的目标是大二和大三的学生，他们已经学会了一些基本的原则和技能，但在他们的职业抱负已经固定之前。在有意义的研究中有效地指导学生是实现项目目标的关键。导师接受培训，提供研究和智力问题，职业咨询，课程咨询和个人成长问题的指导。UMEB学生全年参加在单一科学主题内组织的研究团队：对社会环境问题的多学科调查。学生从事一系列项目，从物种形成机制到空间明确的人口模型。通过研讨会和非正式聚会，学生通过比较他们在不同系统中的工作建立社区和目的感。CSULA是一个国际化的少数民族服务机构，少数群体成员占学生总数的83%。它被联邦政府指定为西班牙裔服务机构。UMEB的教师导师也是多样化的。征聘工作将通过环境分析中心现有的机制全年进行。先前的UMEB奖成功地招募和留住了少数民族本科生，并招募学生进入CSULA和主要研究型大学的研究生课程。

The goals of this UMEB project are to (1) recruit more underrepresented undergraduate students into Environmental Biology through exciting research experiences, (2) encourage the intellectual and personal development of students so that they may succeed within the environmental science (ES) community, and (3) increase the numbers of underrepresented students entering graduate programs in Environmental Biology. The program targets students in their sophomore and junior years, after they have learned some basic principles and skills but before their career aspirations have become fixed. Effective mentoring of students in meaningful research is key to meeting project goals. Mentors are trained to provide guidance in research and intellectual issues, career advice, curriculum counseling, and issues of personal growth. UMEB students participate year round in research teams that are organized within a single science theme: Multidisciplinary Investigation into Society's Environmental Problems. Students work on a range of projects from speciation mechanisms to spatially explicit population models. Through seminars and informal gatherings, students build a sense of community and purpose by comparing their work in diverse systems.CSULA is a cosmopolitan minority serving institution where minority group members comprise 83% of the student body. It is federally designated as a Hispanic Serving Institution. UMEB faculty mentors are also diverse. Recruitment will take place throughout the year, through mechanisms already in place at the Center for Environmental Analysis. A prior UMEB award was successful at recruiting and retaining minority undergraduates, and in recruitment of students into graduate programs at CSULA and at major research universities.