2008 Texas A&M University System Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Bridge to the Doctorate V Program: Continuring the Pathways

德州农工大学系统？路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（LSAMP）通往博士学位之桥项目是国家科学基金会、路易斯·斯托克斯大学理学院和路易斯·斯托克斯大学工程学院之间的一项合作项目。该计划为学生准备迎接完成博士课程和高等教育学术生涯的挑战，并培养年轻学生在国内和国际科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）劳动力中代表性不足的人群中取得成功所需的领导技能。将研究与教育相结合，BD研究员将在两年的时间里作为一个群体培养，他们将受益于学术和个人发展活动以及社会支持计划，以维持他们的承诺和成功，以获得STEM博士学位。项目活动包括与美国国家科学基金会资助的研究培训综合研究生教育（IGERT）的联系，该项目涉及材料科学的下一代计算和分析工具领域，以及几个本科生研究和教育项目下的学生指导机会。领导力培训、提案写作和道德培训是这个为期两年的奖学金项目的模块。在2009-2010学年，德州农工大学将有12名来自STEM领域未被充分代表的少数族裔的学生参加该项目。这种支持的结果将扩大非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲原住民和太平洋岛民在STEM管道、美国劳动力和海外的参与。该项目的严格评估结果将为STEM领域招募和保留代表性不足的少数民族学生的文献提供补充。

Texas A&M University System?s (TAMUS) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Program is a collaborative effort between the National Science Foundation the TAMU College of Science and the College of Engineering. The program prepares students to meet the challenges of completing doctoral programs of study and for academic careers in higher education and develops leadership skills necessary to succeed as young students from underrepresented populations in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce nationally and internationally. Integrating research and education, the BD fellows will be nurtured over two years as a cohorted community that will benefit from a program of academic and personal development activities as well as social support to sustain their commitment and success to the terminal Ph.D. STEM degree. Program activities include linkages to the NSF-funded Integrative Graduate Education in Research Training (IGERT) in the area of Next Generation Computations and Analytical Tools for Material Science and student mentoring opportunities under several undergraduate research and education projects. Leadership training, proposal writing and training in ethics are modules within the two-year fellowship program.A total of 12 students from underrepresented minority populations in STEM fields will participate in the program at Texas A&M University during the 2009-2010 academic years. Results from this support will broaden the participation of African-Americans, Hispanics, Native Americans, and Pacific-Islanders in the STEM pipeline, U. S. workforce and abroad. Results from rigorous evaluation of the project will add to the body of literature in the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minority students in STEM fields.