California LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity

加州大学伯克利分校（UC Berkeley）提议举办加州LSAMP博士学位（BD）的第八组，该项目将资助12名代表性不足的少数族裔STEM博士生。 BD将通过大力招募，招收，培训和毕业12名才华横溢的博士生来增强伯克利校园STEM研究生教育的多样性。这项活动将专门支持LSAMP学生，并提供机会参加研究生教育，而无需贷款的经济负担，提供前两年的津贴和教育费用基金以及学术部门和/或外部奖学金资助的支持博士课程的持续时间。加州大学伯克利分校已经开始了一个多方面的技术丰富的活动，通过各种方法（国家电子邮件列表服务，电子传单，网站开发，QR码创建，Facebook，加州大学伯克利分校研究生院电话热线和YouTube视频）招募积极性很高的LSAMP学生。 伯克利分校将建立在学术部门和教师的关系，以及与研究生部的合作。拟议的博士学位桥梁活动将提供丰富的研究生发展机会，除了在特定STEM学科的严格培训外，还将包括持续的教师指导，专业发展，以及促进科学和工程界的网络和领导能力的活动。 培育和支持性的环境将确保博士学位的成功完成。并过渡到学术界和行业的竞争性职业生涯区域，国家和全球。该提案强调了创造性的多样性战略，并纳入了招聘和留住研究生研究人员的最佳做法，并借鉴了其他LSAMP BD主机站点的经验教训。伯克利是世界领先的智力中心之一，以其图书馆和实验室的规模和质量，研究和出版物的范围以及教师和学生的区别而闻名。伯克利大学不仅每年授予的博士学位比全国任何其他大学都多，而且在过去10年中，伯克利大学向历史上在研究生教育中代表性不足的学生颁发了全国最多的博士学位（非教育领域）。加州大学伯克利分校对多样性的承诺包括承认和教育一个多样化的本科生和研究生团体，并创造一个包容，协作和卓越的培育氛围。更广泛的影响：该项目旨在加强现有LSAMP本科课程与加州大学伯克利分校STEM研究生课程之间的联系，目标是在通往加州大学伯克利分校研究生院的管道中实现永久性转变。BD学生将参与指导STEM本科生和大学预科生，以提高STEM专业的兴奋度，并发挥他们的影响力，鼓励年轻人选择STEM专业。BD队列预计不仅会影响下一代代表性不足的少数民族STEM学生的看法，他们将作为榜样，但也超出了STEM教师在该州和全国各地的机构的期望。将通过社交网络、网络研讨会、出版物、在国家会议上的发言以及与国家科学基金会附属倡议和多样性联盟的数据共享进程，传播这些活动的调查结果、经验教训和影响。BD学生将有望与湾区丰富的科技网络联系起来。预计它们将产生远远超出少数民族教育，STEM学科和主办校园的重要和变革性影响。此外，在线社区，谷歌的gchats和网络研讨会将连接BD学生从拟议的队列到那些在全国各地，产生一个广泛的网络连接，扩大就业机会。

The University of California (UC) Berkeley proposes to host Cohort VIII of the California LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) that will fund 12 underrepresented minority STEM PhD students. The BD will enhance the diversity of STEM graduate education on the Berkeley campus by robustly recruiting, enrolling, training, and graduating a cohort of 12 talented doctoral students. This activity will support LSAMP students exclusively and offer an opportunity to enroll in graduate education without the financial burden of loans, providing stipends for the first two years and cost-of-education funds and support from the academic departments and/or external fellowship funding for the duration of the doctoral program. UC Berkeley has embarked on a multi-faceted technology-rich campaign to recruit highly motivated LSAMP students through a variety of methods (national e-mail listserve, electronic flyers, website development, QR code creation, Facebook, UC Berkeley graduate school phone hotline and YouTube videos). Berkeley will build on academic department and faculty relationships as well as collaboration with the Graduate Division.Intellectual Merit: The proposed Bridge to the Doctorate activity will provide a rich set of graduate student development opportunities, which in addition to rigorous training in specific STEM disciplines will also include on-going faculty mentoring, professional development, and activities that promote networking and leadership in the scientific and engineering communities. The nurturing and supportive environment will ensure successful completion of the Ph.D. and transition to competitive careers in academia and industry regionally, nationally, and globally. This proposal highlights creative diversity strategies and incorporates best practices for recruitment and retention of graduate student researchers and builds upon lessons learned from other LSAMP BD host sites. Berkeley ranks as one of the world's leading intellectual centers, renowned for the size and quality of its libraries and laboratories, the scope of its research and publications, and the distinction of its faculty and students. Not only does Berkeley award more doctoral degrees each year than any other university in the country, over the past 10 years Berkeley has awarded the highest number of Ph.D.s (in non-education fields) in the nation to students who are historically underrepresented in graduate education. UC Berkeley's commitment to diversity encompasses admitting and educating a diverse undergraduate and graduate student body and creating a nurturing climate of inclusion, colleagiality, and excellence. Broader Impacts: This project seeks to strengthen the linkages between existing LSAMP undergraduate programs and UC Berkeley's STEM graduate programs with the goal of creating a permanent shift in the pipeline leading to graduate school at UC Berkeley. The BD students will be engaged in mentoring STEM undergraduates and pre-college students to bolster excitement for STEM majors and exert their influence to encourage youth toward STEM majors. The BD cohort is anticipated to affect not only the perceptions of the next generation of underrepresented minority STEM students, for whom they will serve as role models, but also exceed the expectations of STEM faculty at institutions in the state and across the nation. The findings, lessons learned, and impact of the activities will be disseminated through social networks, webinars, publications, presentations at national meetings, and data sharing processes with NSF-affiliated initiatives and diversity consortiums. BD students will be expected to connect with the Bay Area's rich science and technology network. They are expected to have a vital and transformative impact far beyond minority education, STEM disciplines, and the host campus. In addition, the on-line community, Google's gchats, and webinars will connect BD students from the proposed cohort to those across the nation, engendering a wide net of connectivity that broadens career opportunities.