Preparing Female Scholars for Careers in Biology, Chemistry and Biochemistry

查塔姆大学包括一所女子本科学院，这个S-STEM项目的目标是为生物学、化学和生物化学领域的女学者做好准备。 具体而言，该项目招募和保留学术人才的学生，并促进成功过渡到STEM职业或毕业后的研究生院。该计划的智力价值源于为学者提供的队列经验，以加强与志同道合的同事的联系，并促进动态的课堂内外编程。这种队列的经验增强了他们的债券大学和学科。这个S-STEM项目致力于通过为学生提供现实的目标和未来的STEM职业计划来留住他们。此外，在学生的整个学术生涯中，重点是获得以科学为基础的信息技术技能。更广泛的影响不仅通过减轻直接获得奖学金的人的经济负担，而且通过调查队列方法，因为它影响了学生的职业道路。这个项目有可能导致重要的课程和方案的变化都在查塔姆在科学系和科学教育界更广泛。已制定计划，通过出版物和在会议上的发言传播调查结果。

Chatham University includes an undergraduate college for women, and the goal of this S-STEM project is to prepare female scholars for careers in biology, chemistry, and biochemistry. Specifically, this project recruits and retains academically talented students and facilitates a successful transition to STEM careers or graduate school upon graduation. The intellectual merit of this plan stems from the cohort experience offered to the scholars in order to strengthen ties to like-minded colleagues and facilitate dynamic in- and out-of-class programming. This cohort experience enhances their bond to the University and the disciplines. This S-STEM project works at retaining students in STEM by providing them with realistic goals and plans for their futures in STEM careers. Additionally, a focus on acquiring skills in science-based information technology is provided throughout the students' academic tenure.The broader impacts result not only via reducing the financial burden of those receiving the scholarships directly but also via investigating the cohort approach as it impacts students' career paths. This project has the potential to result in important curricular and programmatic changes both at Chatham in the Science Department and in the science education community more broadly. Plans are in place to disseminate findings through publications and presentations at conferences.