University of Arizona LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate

亚利桑那大学（UA）的LSAMP博士之桥（BD）提议在STEM领域招募12名代表性不足的少数民族学生（urm），进入工程、光学科学和物理科学的硕士课程，并为进入博士课程做好准备。BD学生将从UA和其他LSAMP联盟机构招募，并将获得资金，特定学科的教师指导，学术和职业发展支持，以准备和激励他们攻读STEM博士学位。亚利桑那大学在增加研究生院中代表性不足的少数族裔人数方面非常有效，在美国大学协会（AAU）的所有其他成员中，亚利桑那大学在URM研究生比例方面排名第一。拟议的BD计划将解决物理科学和工程领域的urm人数仍然不足的问题，特别是在博士水平。自愿指导BD学生的教师是在科学和工程领域有成就的西班牙裔或美洲原住民终身教授或符合终身教授资格的教授。知识价值。这个项目建立在亚利桑那大学研究生院之前的成功基础上，在过去的15年里，研究生院实施了一项积极的招生计划，包括访问少数民族入学率高的校园；夏季和全年为大约120名高年级URM和第一代/低收入学生提供本科研究培训，以及如何申请研究生院的具体讲习班，包括GRE准备讲习班。一旦BD学生开始博士研究，将有可能通过帮助他们在国家奖学金（如NSF GRFs， DOD， NASA, Ford）以及亚利桑那州提供的其他奖学金（如亚利桑那州科学奖学金，研究生入学奖学金和亚利桑那州学者奖学金）中具有竞争力来资助他们。博士生也将得到现有拨款（例如，GAAN， VIGRE， PIRE），超级基金培训核心，几个科学技术中心和UA卓越中心的资助；以及其他授予参与的教员的补助金。BD项目将提供特殊指导，每周举办一次研讨会，培养进入博士项目所需的特定技能，协助撰写出色的申请，前往会议展示研究成果，与同行和其他教师建立联系，在学术和科学写作方面提供辅导，参与一个学者社区，这些学者拥有博士级科学家的自我认同，他们了解获得STEM学科的博士学位并追求科学和技术事业的重要性和职业利益。更广泛的影响。UA成功留住urm的证据是，它在美洲原住民数量上排名第一，在西班牙裔博士人数上排名第八（2010年获得博士学位调查）。UA通过众多研究中心提供的广泛的科学和技术基础设施将有助于LSAMP-BD学生的学科特定和跨学科培训，为他们进入博士课程并取得成功做好准备。

The LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) at The University of Arizona (UA) proposes to recruit a cohort of 12 Underrepresented Minority Students (URMs) in STEM to enter Master's programs in engineering, optical sciences, and the physical sciences and prepare them to enter doctoral programs. BD students will be recruited from the UA and other LSAMP Alliance institutions and will receive funding, discipline-specific faculty mentoring, academic and career development support to prepare and motivate them to pursue doctoral degrees in STEM. UA has been very effective in increasing the number of underrepresented minorities in graduate school and is ranked at the top of all other Research I, American Association of Universities (AAU) members in the US in the percentage of graduate students who are URM. The proposed BD program will address the physical sciences and engineering where there continues to be an underrepresentation of URMs, especially at the doctoral level. Faculty who volunteer to mentor BD students are accomplished Hispanic or Native American tenured or tenure-eligible professors in science and engineering. Intellectual Merit. This project builds on the prior success of the UA's Graduate College, which over the past 15 years has conducted an aggressive program of recruitment, including visits to campuses of high minority enrollment; summer and year-round undergraduate research training for approximately 120 upper-division URM and first-generation/low-income students, and specific workshops on how to apply to graduate school, including a GRE Prep workshop. Once the BD students begin Ph.D. studies, it will be feasible to fund them by helping them become very competitive for national fellowships such as NSF GRFs, DOD, NASA, Ford, as well as and others provided by Arizona such as Science Arizona Fellowships, Graduate Access Fellowships and Arizona Scholars grants. Doctoral students will also be funded by existing grants (e.g., GAAN, VIGRE, PIRE), the Superfund Training Core, several Science and Technology Centers and Centers of Excellence at UA; and other grants awarded to participating faculty. The BD program will provide special mentoring, a weekly seminar to develop specific skills required for entrance to Ph.D. programs, assistance in crafting outstanding applications, travel to conferences to present research and network with peers and other faculty, tutoring in academic and science writing, and participation in a community of scholars who possess a self-identity as Ph.D.-level scientists and who understand the importance and career benefits of obtaining PhDs in STEM disciplines and pursue careers in science and technology. Broader Impacts. Evidence of the UA's success in retaining URMs is demonstrated by the fact that it ranks 1st in the number of Native American and 8th in the number of Hispanic Ph.D. recipients in the country (Survey of Earned Doctorates, 2010). The extensive science and technology infrastructure available at UA through numerous research centers will contribute to the discipline-specific and interdisciplinary training for LSAMP-BD students, preparing them to enter and succeed in doctoral programs.