Scholarships to Enhance Recruitment and Retention of Underserved and Underrepresented Students in Biology

智力优势：这个项目发起了与圣路易斯市中心精选高中的合作伙伴关系。它为至少13名有学术天赋、经济困难的学生(学者)提供奖学金，使他们能够进入密歇根大学攻读并完成生物科学学士或学士学位。高中生在高中四年级之前从服务不足的群体(经济困难学生和目前在科学领域代表性不足的群体)中招募。他们被鼓励并使他们能够在高中最后一年(S)取得最好的学业成绩，然后在他们进入大学期间提供直接的学业和经济支持。学者们正准备进入生命科学领域主要研究机构备受尊敬的研究生课程。在学者的整个本科课程中，强调以下几点：本科研究，量化技能的发展，以及解决生命科学关键问题的综合方法。广泛的影响：与选定的圣路易斯市中心高中的合作确保了对低收入学生的全面奖学金支持，特别是目前在科学界代表性不足的群体的成员。因此，这种合作大大增加了低收入学生和目前在科学界代表性不足的学生进入本科课程并最终获得理科高级学位课程的人数，从而将补充我们目前的高中、本科生、学士学位后和研究生课程，并有助于增加美国生物科学学者人才库的多样性和规模。

Intellectual merit: This project initiates a partnership with select inner-city high schools in St. Louis. It provides scholarships for a minimum of 13 academically talented, financially needy students (Scholars), enabling the Scholars to enroll in and complete a BA or BS degree in Biological Sciences at MU. High school students are recruited from underserved groups (economically disadvantaged students and those from groups currently underrepresented in the sciences) before their senior year in high school. They are encouraged and enabled to achieve their best academic performance in the last year(s) of their high school experience, and then provided direct academic and financial support while they are in college. The Scholars are being prepared to enter highly respected graduate programs in major research institutions in the life sciences. Throughout the Scholar's undergraduate program the following are emphasized: undergraduate research, the development of quantitative skills, and integrative approaches to critical problems in the life sciences.Broader impacts: The partnership with select St. Louis inner city high schools assures full scholarship support for low-income students, especially members of groups currently underrepresented in the sciences. This collaboration is thus significantly increasing the number of low-income students and students from groups currently underrepresented in the sciences entering undergraduate programs and eventually earning advanced degree programs in science and will thus complement our current high school, undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate programs, and is contributing to increasing the diversity and size of this nation's scholar talent pool in the biological sciences.