Bridge to the Doctorate at UMBC 2011-2013

马里兰州大学系统（USM）路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）将建立在其成功的培训和教育桥梁博士学位（BD）研究员通过proposinga第六批计划。巴尔的摩县的马里兰州大学（UMBC）是高级LSAMP的牵头机构，并已被指定为2011-2013年的BD站点。UMBC致力于招聘，保留，教育和培训科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）领域的学生，并为他们在STEM劳动力中取得成功做好准备。UMBC于2005年迎来了第一批BD研究员。其中三名研究员在2010 -2011年期间获得了博士学位。其他来自这一群体的人正在坚持博士课程（全职和兼职）或已获得硕士学位。学位，并保持联系，与UMBC的BD计划，因为他们计划返回博士学位。(One 2005年BD Fellow是一名博士。另一位将于2011年秋季开始在摩根州立大学攻读工程学博士学位。USM在UMBC和马里兰州大学的学院公园校区都有四个额外的研究生。研究员在BD培训，专业发展和社区建设活动中相互联系。USM LSAMP始于1995年，并一直对增加STEM学科中代表性不足的少数民族学士学位获得者的数量保持警惕。BD奖将使我们能够加强我们的本科生和研究生管道，并在这些学科中建立一个扩大的学者社区。2011-2013年的计划包括将在研究员在校园的第一周开始的活动。该计划包括广泛的定向活动，如为期2天的夏季成功研究所，研究生院方向，以及与STEM部门内的教师进行为期多天的培训。在第一年，研究员将被分配一个同伴导师;申请NSF研究生研究奖学金;接受公开演讲培训;并完成一个30-50页的研究准备项目，要求他们与USM以外的大学的其他研究生，教师和BD研究员建立联系。在这两年中，BD研究员将参加每两周一次的BD会议，参加每月一次的研究生成功研讨会，并与其他研究生和教师一起参加学术和专业发展研讨会。到第二年年底，BD研究员将学习和实施实现学术卓越的方法，完成硕士学位的学分。学位或早期资格里程碑走向博士学位（根据部门不同），完成了10个小时的UMBC的“教授在培训”模块，在两个研究会议上提出，参加了众多的网络机会与教师，参加研讨会论文completionand论文提案规划，并制定了一个计划，坚持完成博士学位。

The University System of Maryland (USM) Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) willbuild upon its success of training and educating Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Fellows by proposinga program for a sixth cohort. The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is the lead institutionof a senior-level LSAMP and has been designated as the BD site for 2011-2013. UMBC is dedicated torecruiting, retaining, educating, and training underrepresented students in science, technology,engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, and preparing them for success in the STEM workforce.UMBC welcomed its first cohort of BD Fellows in 2005. Three of those Fellows completed Ph.D.s during2010-2011. Others from that cohort are persisting in doctoral programs (full-time and part-time) or havereceived M.S. degrees and remain in touch with UMBC's BD Program as they plan to return for thedoctorate. (One 2005 BD Fellow is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Utah, and another will begin theD.Eng. program at Morgan State University in fall 2011.) The USM has four additional cohorts of fellowson both the UMBC and the University of Maryland, College Park campuses. The Fellows connect withone another at BD training, professional development, and community building events. The USM LSAMPbegan in 1995 and has been vigilant about increasing the number of underrepresented minoritybaccalaureate degree recipients in STEM disciplines. The BD award will enable us to strengthen both ourundergraduate and graduate pipelines and create an expanded community of scholars within thesedisciplines.Plans for the 2011-2013 cohort include activities that will begin during the fellows' first week on campus.The program includes extensive orientation activities such as a 2-day Summer Success Institute, theGraduate School Orientation, and multi-day orientations with faculty within the STEM departments. In thefirst year, the Fellows will be assigned a Peer Mentor; apply for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship;receive training in public speaking; and complete a 30-50 page research preparation project that willrequire them to network with other graduate students, faculty, and BD Fellows at universities outside ofthe USM. Throughout the two years, BD Fellows will participate in bi-weekly BD meetings, attendmonthly Graduate Student Success Seminars, and participate in academic and professional developmentseminars with other graduate students and faculty. By the end of the second year, the BD Fellows willhave learned and implemented methodologies for achieving academic excellence, completed credits forthe M.S. degree or early qualifying milestones toward the doctorate (varies according to department),completed 10 hours of UMBC's "Professors-in-Training" modules, presented at two research conferences,participated in numerous networking opportunities with faculty, attended workshops on thesis completionand dissertation proposal planning, and developed a plan for persisting to finish the doctorate.