Greater Philadelphia Region LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (Cohort VIII) Program (BD Site: Drexel University)

德雷塞尔大学是大费城路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟的牵头机构，将赞助该联盟。2010-2012学年第七届博士衔接项目（BTD）。该大学已经推进了一项战略承诺，即开发跨学科研究项目，这些项目将在继续建设研究企业中发挥重要作用。2006-07财政年度启动的重大研究计划（MRI）计划的出现旨在推进德雷克塞尔？并将服务于BTD参与者的研究兴趣和未来。费城LSAMP的BTD队列VII项目的目标是：(1)招收12名学生进入德雷克塞尔大学的硕士项目；(2)完成硕士学位后100%保留该等学生；(3)在有竞争力的奖学金支持下转入STEM专业的博士方向；(4) 100%获得博士学位；这项投资的长期影响将：(1)增加来自代表性不足群体的学生进入STEM博士项目并坚持到最终STEM学位的数量和竞争力，以及增加进入教授职位的STEM专业人员的数量；(2)通过促进跨学科研究活动和传播有关最佳实践的信息，促进STEM学科的知识，以促进来自代表性不足群体的学生的保留；(3)通过发展费城联盟内外的支持网络和伙伴关系，加强研究和教育的基础设施。

Drexel University, lead institution for the Greater Philadelphia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation, will sponsor the alliance?s 7th Bridge to the Doctorate Program (BTD) during the 2010-2012 academic years. The university has advanced a strategic commitment to develop interdisciplinary research programs that will play an important role in continuing to build the research enterprise. The advent of a Major Research Initiative (MRI) program initiated in FY 2006-07 was designed to advance Drexel?s research strengths and will serve the research interests and futures of BTD participants. The goals of Philadelphia LSAMP's BTD Cohort VII program are to: (1) recruit 12 students into Master's programs at Drexel; (2) retain 100% of these students through the completion of the Master's degree; (3) transition fellows into the doctoral track of their STEM specialty with competitive fellowship support; (4) graduate 100% of the cohort with the PhD; and (5) monitor their progress into research active careersThe long-term impact of this investment will (1) increase the number and competitiveness of students from underrepresented groups entering STEM Ph.D. programs and persisting to the terminal STEM degree as well as increase the number of STEM professionals entering the professoriate; (2) advance knowledge in the STEM disciplines through the promotion of interdisciplinary research activity and the dissemination of information about best practices used to promote the retention of students from underrepresented groups; and (3) enhance the infrastructure for research and education through the development of support networks and partnerships within the Philadelphia alliance and beyond.