Broadening Participation in Materials Science through Institutional Integration of a Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program at Fisk, Delaware State, and Vanderbilt Universities

我们提出了一条创新的途径来获得博士学位，以大大扩大少数民族在材料科学领域的参与，将多个nsf资助的材料研究项目（CREST和REU）联系在一起。这个I3的核心将是菲斯克-范德比尔特大学硕士到博士的桥梁项目，该项目在使学生获得硕士学位方面有着良好的记录。他在菲斯克大学获得了博士学位，作为进入范德比尔特大学博士项目的跳板。范德比尔特大学和菲斯克大学与特拉华州立大学（DSU）一起加入了这个联盟。我们的项目吗?美国的博士之路强调博士学位授予机构的研究参与和教师的自由指导，以帮助学生跨越理想和机构的过渡。我们将直接解决I3计划的所有目标。这样一来，在这里申请的I3资助下，我们每年将使至少2名未被充分代表的少数民族研究生攻读材料科学博士学位，这是全国机构平均水平的20倍。在申请I3资助的5年里，这代表了10名获得I3资助的人将完成或即将完成博士学位。就其本身而言，这是我们创新和整合的实质性成果，也是对STEM劳动力的重要贡献。可以说，对于这个项目的长期持续影响和制度化，以及我们的硕士到博士桥梁模型最终扩展到其他STEM学科，更重要的是，这将是真正理解如何最好地设计我们的模型架构以确保成功移植到新的学科和机构环境的基础。我们将:1。扩展菲斯克-范德比尔特硕士到博士的桥梁项目，包括材料科学。关键教员已被确定为？桥梁建造者?遵循物理学中现有程序的模型。利用现有的重要机构支持，我们将扩大和深化美国国家科学基金会资助的CREST项目的足迹，并提高其可持续性。与特拉华州立大学合作扩展桥梁项目。由此产生的菲斯克-范德比尔特-DSU硕士到博士的桥梁项目将允许学生从菲斯克的硕士到范德比尔特的博士，从菲斯克的硕士到DSU的博士，或者从DSU的硕士到范德比尔特的博士。结果将增加我们nsf资助的CREST和REU项目之间的协同和协作，减少经常阻碍学生在教育节点间流动的人为界限。通过菲斯克、特拉华州立大学和范德比尔特大学的硕士到博士桥梁项目的机构整合扩大材料科学的参与，汇集了来自IGERT和CREST项目的NSF/EHR奖项，以及其他工作，围绕扩大参与、关键教育时刻和研究与教育整合的I3综合主题。

We propose an innovative pathway to the PhD for substantially broadening the participation of underrep-resented minorities in materials science, linking multiple NSF-funded materials research programs (CREST and REU) at the partnering institutions. The nucleus of this I3 will be the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge program, with its strong track record of enabling students to earn a Master?s degree at Fisk as a stepping stone to the PhD program at Vanderbilt. Vanderbilt and Fisk are joined in this I3 by Dela-ware State University (DSU). Our program?s path to the PhD emphasizes research engagement and de-liberate mentorship by faculty at PhD-granting institutions to help students cross the aspirational and insti-tutional transitions.We will directly address all of the I3 program goals. In so doing, with the I3 funding requested here we will enable at least 2 underrepresented minority graduate students toward the PhD in Materials Sci-ence each year, representing ~20 times the national institutional average. Over the 5 years of requested I3 support, this represents 10 individuals supported by I3 funding who will complete, or be on the path to-ward completing, the PhD. By itself this is a substantial, tangible result of our innovation and integration and a vital contribution to the STEM workforce.Arguably even more important for the long-term sustained impact and institutionalization of this program, and the eventual expansion of our Masters-to-PhD Bridge model into additional STEM disci-plines, will be the foundation laid here for truly understanding how best to design the architecture of our model to ensure successful portability into new disciplinary and institutional contexts.We will:1.Expand the Fisk-Vanderbilt Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program to include Materials Science. Key faculty have been identified as the ?bridge builders? following the model of the existing program in physics. Leveraging significant institutional support already in place, we will ex-pand and deepen the footprints of our NSF-funded CREST projects and enhance their sus-tainability.2.Extend the Bridge Program in partnership with Delaware State University. The resulting Fisk-Vanderbilt-DSU Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program will permit students to transition from the MS at Fisk to the PhD at Vanderbilt, from the MS at Fisk to the PhD at DSU, or from the MS at DSU to the PhD at Vanderbilt. The result will be increased synergy and collaboration across our NSF-funded CREST and REU programs, reducing the artificial boundaries that can so often impede student mobility across educational junctures.Broadening Participation in Materials Science through Institutional Integration of a Masters-to-PhD Bridge Program at Fisk, Delaware State, and Vanderbilt Universities brings together NSF/EHR awards from the IGERT and CREST programs, as well as other work, around the I3 integrative themes for broadening participation, critical educational junctures, and the integration of research and education.