Scholarships for Academically Talented and Financially Disadvantaged Undergraduate and Graduate Students

该项目利用了大学的长期承诺，为低收入学生提供向上的社会流动性。 为此，该项目将向大约19名独特的个人颁发奖学金，从而使一名高级本科生，九名新生，六名从两年制学校转学的学生和三名进入研究生，在四年内完成化学学士学位或哲学博士学位。（或两年的转学生）入学到迪克讷年。智力成绩：该项目是扩大现有的，高质量的学生支持服务与一个新的指导计划，从事本科生，研究生和教师，无论是在他们的传统学术努力，而且在技能的发展，这将导致宝贵的干劳动力人员。 该项目是使学生能够成功地及时完成学位，通过队列形成，解决了课程工作的挑战。 专业发展活动正在加强基本技能，如时间管理，优先级，批判性思维，像科学家一样写作，科学演讲，先进仪器和领导力。更广泛的影响：这个成功的项目记录了研究型大学如何在其教育事业的各个层面整合奖学金支持，同时确保任何级别的经济困难学生都能够获得高质量的高等教育学位。 该项目还巩固了大学，帮助招募服务不足的学生群体的当地团体和当地行业之间的关系，许多毕业生已经找到并将继续找到满意的STEM职业，这也有利于社会。

The project is leveraging a long-standing commitment of the university to provide upward social mobility to low-income students. To this end, the project is awarding scholarships to approximately nineteen unique individuals thereby enabling one advanced undergraduate, nine entering freshmen, six students transferring from 2-year schools, and 3 entering graduate students, to complete either a bachelor's or doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry within four (or two for the transfer students) years of matriculating to Duquesne.Intellectual Merit: The project is augmenting existing, high quality student-support services with a novel mentoring plan that engages undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, both in their traditional academic endeavors but also in the development of skills that will lead to valuable STEM workforce personnel. The project is enabling student success in timely completion of degrees through cohort formation that addresses the challenges of course work. The professional development activities are reinforcing essential skills such as time management, prioritization, critical thinking, writing like a scientist, scientific speaking, advanced instrumentation, and leadership. Broader Impacts: This successful program is documenting how research universities can integrate scholarship support across all levels of their educational enterprise while ensuring financially-challenged students, at any level, are able to pursue a quality higher education degree. The project is also cementing relationships between the university, local groups that aid in recruiting underserved student populations, and the local industry in which many graduates have found and will continue to find satisfying STEM careers that are also beneficial to society.