Science for a Sustainable Future: Developing the Next Generation of Diverse Scientists

技术方面：本项目每年将资助和招收9名少数民族研究生（GK-12研究员），培养他们的科学和教学能力，培养他们的领导能力和教学技能，最终培养环境、地质和生物科学领域的顶尖学者。这些研究员将在以西班牙裔为主的社区的早期大学高中（ECHS）课程中担任榜样和讲师。ECHS是一个创新的项目，使学生在获得高中文凭的同时，还能获得长达两年的大学学分，并为他们提供在大学取得成功所需的技能。ECHS的学生将受益于在课堂上与GK-12研究员的互动，受益于教师培训，以提高跨学科科学的长期能力，受益于教学计划的制定。科学创造可持续的未来？集中在干旱的西南部。提议的？科学家常驻？该计划可以作为招收科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）学科学生的可扩展模型。非技术：该提案将积极招收少数民族研究生，并将他们培养成为科学家、教师和未来的领导者。凭借其不断增长的博士课程，顶尖的教师和目前的人口统计，UTEP准备引领培养少数民族博士未来的科学家和领导者的方式，并将允许学生解决我们的边境，沙漠人口面临的具体挑战，包括气候变化中有限的水资源，替代能源的潜力，多民族社区的环境健康问题，以及该地区面临的地质灾害。

AbstractTechnical: This project will fund and engage 9 minority graduate students (GK-12 Fellows) per year to build their science and teaching portfolios and develop leadership and teaching skills, ultimately preparing top scholars in environmental, geological, and biological sciences. The Fellows will serve as role models and instructors in Early College High School (ECHS) classes in a predominantly Hispanic community. The ECHS is an innovative program that enables students to earn up to two years of college credit in addition to their high school diploma, and provides them with skills to increase their success in college. ECHS students will benefit from interacting with GK-12 Fellows in their classrooms, from teacher training to improve long-term capacities for interdisciplinary science , and from the development of lesson plans in ?Science for a Sustainable Future? focused on the arid southwest. The proposed ?Scientists in Residence? program may serve as a scalable model for recruiting students into science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. Non-Technical: This proposal will actively recruit minority graduate students and will train them to be scientists, instructors, and leaders of the future. With its growing Ph.D. programs, top faculty, and current demographic, UTEP is poised to lead the way for training minority Ph.D. future scientists and leaders, and will allow for the students to address specific challenges facing our border, desert populations, including limited water resources in a changing climate, the potential for alternative energy resources, environmental health issues in a multi-national community, and geological hazards facing the region.