Track 1 Proposal to OEDG Program: A Career Path for African-American Students from HBCUs to National Laboratories

这项新倡议正在开发一个试点项目，从代表性不足的群体中招募物理科学和工程专业的本科生进入石溪大学地球科学系的研究生项目，通过正式课程和研究项目对他们进行地球科学硕士学位的教育，并将他们定位为美国能源部国家用户设施的科学助理。包括布鲁克海文国家实验室的国家同步加速器光源（NSLS）。这个新项目建立在历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的教授与BNL的NSLS之间不断发展的关系的基础上。这种关系的一个结果是建立了科学与工程研究和教育机会跨学科联盟（INCREASE），这是一个促进hbcu和其他少数民族服务机构（msi）研究的组织，涉及利用国家用户设施，如BNL的NSLS。该奖项与NSLS的配套资金相结合，每年支持该项目的3名学生。该项目旨在解决公认的非裔美国学生在地球科学领域参与度较低的问题，并促进21世纪地球科学职业所需的各种科学和技术研讨会的发展和培训。除了INCREASE和NSLS之外，这项新计划的合作伙伴还包括：石溪大学的全纳教育中心和布鲁克海文国家实验室的教育项目办公室。

This new initiative is developing a pilot program to recruit undergraduate physical science and engineering students from underrepresented groups into the graduate program in the Department of Geosciences at Stony Brook University, educate them via formal courses and research projects to the M. S. degree in geosciences, and position them for employment as science associates in national user facilities of the U. S. Department of Energy [DOE], including the National Synchrotron Light Source [NSLS] at the Brookhaven National Laboratory [BNL]. This new program builds on the evolving relationship between professors from Historical Black Colleges and Universities [HBCUs] and the NSLS at BNL. An outcome of this relationship has been the creation of an Interdisciplinary Consortium for Research and Educational Access in Science and Engineering [INCREASE], an organization to promote research in HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions [MSIs], involving utilization of national user facilities such as the NSLS at BNL. This award, when combined with matching funds from NSLS, is supporting 3 students per year in this program. This program is addressing well-recognized low levels of participation by African-American students in the geosciences and is fostering development and training of the diverse scientific and technical workshop required for 21st century geoscience careers. In addition to INCREASE and the NSLS, partners in this new initiative include: the Center for Inclusive Education at Stony Brook University and the Office of Educational Programs at the Brookhaven National Laboratory.