Northeast LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate

东北路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（NELSAMP）选择康涅狄格大学（UConn）作为2014-2016年博士学位桥梁（BD）活动的地点。康涅狄格大学的学科发展活动将证明，一项积极、密集、以结果为导向的运动，旨在招募、准备、指导、培训和支持STEM学科中传统上代表性不足的人群的博士候选人，将有助于解决美国目前面临的社会、经济和技术挑战。为了保持全球竞争力，美国必须在支撑知识经济的STEM领域提供卓越的教育准备。来自STEM中代表性不足群体的学生是解决如何重振美国全球技术领先地位这一持续难题的关键一环。康涅狄格大学将招收并支持12名来自LSAMP联盟机构的非裔美国人、西班牙裔和/或美洲原住民的博士生，并为他们在康涅狄格大学STEM学科的前两年研究生学习提供BD奖学金。BD研究员的结构化活动包括制定重点研究计划和详细的学术里程碑路线图；参加专业技能发展工作坊；有指导/志愿服务的机会；并接受职业准备。此外，康涅狄格大学将完善和扩展其通往STEM博士项目网站的哈士奇桥。通过生物医学工程、环境与人类可持续发展、纳米技术等前沿领域的创新STEM研究项目，康涅狄格大学将培养优秀的科学家和工程师。BD研究员的观点、背景和经验的多样性将有助于在应对社会重大挑战方面取得突破。

The Northeast Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (NELSAMP) has chosen the University of Connecticut (UConn) as the site for the 2014-2016 Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity. The UConn BD Activity will demonstrate that a proactive, intensive, results-oriented campaign to recruit, prepare, mentor, train, and support doctoral candidates from traditionally underrepresented populations in the STEM disciplines will contribute to resolving social, economic, and technological challenges that currently face the United States. For the U.S. to remain competitive globally, it must provide exceptional educational preparedness in STEM areas that underpin the knowledge-based economy. Students from underrepresented groups in STEM are a critical piece in solving the ongoing puzzle of how to reinvigorate the nation's global technological primacy. UConn will recruit and support 12 doctoral students from African American, Hispanic and/or Native American populations who are graduates of LSAMP Alliance institutions with BD Fellowships for the first two years of their graduate studies in STEM disciplines at UConn. Structured activities for the BD Fellows include developing focused plans of study and detailed roadmaps of academic milestones; participating in professional skills development workshops; having opportunities for mentorship/volunteering; and receiving career preparation. In addition, UConn will refine and expand its Husky Bridge to the Doctorate STEM Program website. Through innovative STEM research projects in cutting-edge areas such as biomedical engineering, environmental and human sustainability, and nanotechnology, UConn will train outstanding scientists and engineers. The diversity of perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences of the BD Fellows will contribute toward breakthroughs in meeting society's grand challenges.