Meyerhoff Scholars in Natural and Mathematical Sciences

该项目正在支持一批新的迈耶霍夫学者，他们已经表现出经济上的需求，正在主修自然和数学科学学院(CNMS)提供的课程--由生物学、生物化学和分子生物学、化学、数学/统计和物理系组成。该项目正在寻求留住CNMS专业90%的学生到大三。此外，该项目希望每个学者在三年级开始前至少完成一个暑期的重要研究活动，其中至少70%的学生在毕业时进入研究生或专业学校。该项目的优点在于它植根于马里兰大学巴尔的摩县分校(UMBC)已有近20年历史的迈耶霍夫项目。迈耶霍夫方案的原始评价小组正在进行成果和过程评价和研究。该项目的更广泛影响正在通过预期的未被充分代表的少数民族科学和数学博士候选人数量的显着增加而感受到。迈耶霍夫计划的良好记录支持了这一雄心勃勃的目标。

This project is supporting a new cohort of Meyerhoff scholars who have demonstrated financial need and are majoring in programs offered by the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS) - comprised of the departments of Biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics/Statistics, and Physics. The project is seeking to retain 90% of these students in CNMS majors into the junior year. Furthermore, the project expects each scholar to complete at least one summer of significant research activity by the beginning of the junior year, with at least 70% of these students entering graduate or professional school at the time of their graduation. The merit of the project rests on its grounding in the almost two decades old Meyerhoff Program at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). Outcomes and process evaluation and research are being conducted by the original evaluation team for the Meyerhoff Program. The project's broader impacts are being felt through the significant increase in the number of underrepresented minority science and math Ph.D. candidates that is expected. The strong track record of the Meyerhoff Program supports this ambitious goal.