Organizational Nomination: The Leadership Alliance & The Partnership for Minority Science Education

领导联盟是一个由32个机构成员组成的组织，它创建了少数民族科学教育伙伴关系（PMSE），这是一个将少数民族服务机构与研究机构联系起来的实质性项目。该项目始于1992年，总部设在布朗大学，旨在增加未被充分代表的学生参与STEM学科和职业的人数。PMSE是本次提名的主题。PMSE将联盟研究机构的资源与来自全国少数族裔服务机构合作伙伴的代表性不足的学生的人才库联系起来。具体的指导活动包括：夏季研究早期识别计划，为本科生提供8至10周的研究经历，将学生与研究导师联系起来；领导联盟全国研讨会（LANS）：领导联盟所有成员的全国网络站点。局域网为暑期研究早期识别计划的学生研究报告提供了一个重要的场所。在研讨会上，学生们与教师导师、学术管理人员、联邦培训项目代表以及了解资助机会、职业战略和竞争性研究生申请所需技能的专家一起工作。PMSE是一个由多个机构主办的单一项目。学生提交一份申请，最多可以选择三个他们有兴趣工作的机构。每年提交的申请有五到六百份。自2001年以来，SR-EIP在各个学科都有广泛的吸引力，其中50%的申请来自生命科学，25%来自物理科学，25%来自人文科学。从2001年到2005年，768名本科生通过PMSE和SR-EIP参与了前沿的暑期研究。每年夏天平均有165名学生完成研究项目。66%的学生是女性，52%是非裔美国人，35%是西班牙裔，13%是印第安人。这是56%参与研究的学生的第一次研究经历。70名前PMSE学生已经从博士管道中脱颖而出，还有120多名博士。该联盟还为前PMSE学生在关键过渡阶段提供指导。那些接受研究生培训的人与协调员和教师有联系，并经常在随后的夏天担任PMSE本科生的研究生导师。

The Leadership Alliance is an organization of 32 institutional members that created the Partnership for Minority Science Education (PMSE), a substantive program that links minority serving institutions to research institutions. Beginning in 1992 and headquartered at Brown University, the program is designed to increase the numbers of underrepresented students participating in STEM disciplines and careers. PMSE is the subject of this nomination. PMSE links the resources of the Alliance's research institutions to the talent pools of underrepresented students from its minority serving institutional partners nationally. Specific mentoring activities include: the Summer Research Early Identification Program, an eight to ten week research experiences for undergraduates that link students with research mentors; and the Leadership Alliance National Symposium (LANS): a national networking site for all members of the Leadership Alliance. LANS provides an important venue for Summer Research Early Identification Program student research presentations. At the symposium, students work with faculty mentors, academic administrators, representatives of federal training programs, and experts with knowledge of funding opportunities, career strategies, and skills necessary for competitive graduate applications.PMSE is a single program hosted at multiple institutions. Students submit a single application and can select up to three institutions at which they are interested in working. Five to six hundred applications are submitted annually. SR-EIP has a broad appeal across disciplines, with applications divided 50% in the life sciences, 25% in the physical sciences and 25% in the humanities since 2001. From 2001-2005, 768 underrepresented undergraduate students participated in cutting-edge summer research through PMSE and SR-EIP. An average of 165 students completed research projects each summer. 66% of the students were women, 52% African-American, 35% Hispanic and 13% were Native American. This was the first research experience for 56% of the students who participated. Seventy former PMSE students have emerged from the Ph.D. pipeline, along with more than 120 MDs. The Alliance also provides mentoring to former PMSE students at critical transitions along the pathway. Those in graduate training have contact with coordinators and faculty and often serve as graduate mentors for PMSE undergraduates in subsequent summers.