Advancing Undergraduate to Geo-environmental Master's for Engaged Needs-based Talented Students (AUGMENTS) scholarships program

得克萨斯大学阿灵顿分校（UT阿灵顿）为进入AUGMENTS（为基于需求的优秀学生推进本科到地质环境硕士）计划的学术人才和经济困难的学生提供22个S-STEM奖学金。AUGMENTS正在接受来自地质学、环境科学和相关学科的本科生，然后带领他们通过学士学位进入UT阿灵顿的地球与环境科学硕士研究生课程。该计划正在招募来自UT阿灵顿的学生，并在UT布朗斯维尔和UT泛美合作计划。一个综合的学术和专业支持网络，包括多层次的指导和绩效跟踪，有助于实现AUGMENTS的目标，并有助于确保保留和进展到学位完成。该计划的一个决定性因素是让学生在大四之前参加“夏季学习体验”，通过该体验，AUGMENTS旨在为学习注入兴奋感，并提供一个动手的、真实的世界、地球科学研究经验。暑期学习体验也旨在灌输学生掌握地球科学专业人员工作所需的技能和信心。AUGMENTS计划的目标是通过使他们能够成功完成本科学业并获得地球和环境科学硕士学位，为有经济需求的代表性不足的学生改善教育机会。随着绿色经济的发展，AUGMENTS为学生提供了该行业雇主期望和需要下一代STEM毕业生的相关经验和技术技能。

The University of Texas at Arlington (UT Arlington) is offering 22 S-STEM scholarships to academically talented and financial-needy students who enter the AUGMENTS (Advancing Undergraduate to Geoenvironmental Masters for Engaged Needs-based Talented Students) program. AUGMENTS is accepting undergraduate students from geology, environmental science, and related disciplines, then shepherding them through their baccalaureate degrees into the Masters degree graduate program in Earth and Environmental Sciences at UT Arlington. The program is recruiting students from UT Arlington and partnering programs at UT Brownsville and UT Pan American. An integrated network of academic and professional support that includes multi-layered mentoring and performance tracking are contributing to the goals of AUGMENTS and are helping to ensure retention and progression to degree completion. A defining element of the program is having the students participate in a "summer learning experience" before their senior year, through which AUGMENTS is aiming to infuse excitement about learning with a hands-on, real world, geosciences research experiences. The summer learning experience is also aiming to instill the skills and confidence students need to master the work of geosciences professionals. The goals of the AUGMENTS program are improving educational opportunities for underrepresented students with financial needs by enabling them to complete undergraduate studies successfully and to earn masters degrees in earth and environmental science. With the growth of the green economy, AUGMENTS is providing students with the relevant experiences and technical skills that employers in this sector expect and need from the next generation of STEM graduates.