Scholarships for Chemistry and Biochemistry

化学系在爱达荷州州立大学（ISU）将实施一个为期五年的项目，以招募和支持六个新生在他们的四年制学位课程（四年制队列，三个在前两年的每一年入学）和14个继续或转学生（弹性队列）在他们的教育的最后两年。该项目将利用三个TRIO计划（美国教育部）在大学，针对低收入个人（向上绑定，人才搜索和学生支持服务）和美国化学学会的项目种子，促进化学和生物化学职业的兴趣来自弱势背景的高中学生。该项目为国家、区域和地方社区带来了巨大的利益。 在国家一级，它通过增加国内劳动力中高素质STEM毕业生的数量来实现S-STEM计划的主要目的。 与此同时，它提高了弱势和代表性不足的学生充分参与该地区经济增长的机会，并加强了部门和大学。这些项目的具体目标是：（i）使至少20名学生能够集中精力和时间完成化学和生物化学学位，以确保至少80%的学者进入STEM就业或研究生院; ㈡将代表性不足的群体和第一代大学生的参与率提高到奖学金获得者的30%，通过TRIO计划增加招聘工作;（iii）使用S-STEM咨询框架，通过参与本科生研究和参加主要化学会议，使所有学者接触化学和生物化学的专业实践。该项目的目标包括明确的量化指标，每年和项目结束时将对照这些指标对实际成绩进行评价。将通过调查收集形成性和总结性评估的补充信息，请学者描述项目对其教育的影响，并提供改进反馈。学生的平均绩点、课程安排和毕业时间将与化学和生物化学专业的学生进行整体比较。这些数据将允许对该计划对学生表现的影响进行更细致入微的定性评估。

The Department of Chemistry at Idaho State University (ISU) will implement a five year project to recruit and support six incoming freshman throughout their four-year degree program (four-year cohort, three enrolling in each of the first two years) and 14 continuing or transfer students (flex cohort) during the last two years of their education. The project will capitalize on three TRIO programs (U.S. Department of Education) at the University that target low income individuals (Upward Bound, Talent Search, and Student Support Services) and the American Chemical Society's Project SEED that fosters interest in chemistry and biochemistry careers among high school students from disadvantaged backgrounds. The project offers significant benefits to national, regional, and local communities. On the national level it fulfills the primary purpose of the S-STEM program by increasing the number of highly qualified STEM graduates in the domestic workforce. At the same time it enhances opportunities for disadvantaged and underrepresented students to be full participants in the economic growth of the region and it strengthens the department and university. Specific objectives for the projects will be to (i) enable at least 20 students to focus their attention and time on completion of chemistry and biochemistry degrees to ensure that at least 80% of scholars enter STEM employment or graduate school; (ii) increase the participation of underrepresented groups and first generation college students to 30% of scholarship recipients, by increasing recruitment efforts through the TRIO programs; (iii) use the S-STEM advising framework to expose all scholars to the professional practices of chemistry and biochemistry, through participation in undergraduate research and participation in major chemistry meetings. The objectives of the project include clear, quantified targets against which actual achievements will be evaluated both annually and at the close of the project. Complementary formative and summative assessment information will be collected through surveys that ask scholars to describe the impact of the project on their education and offer feedback for improvement. The GPA's, course schedules, and graduation times of scholars will be compared to those of chemistry and biochemistry majors as a whole. These data will allow for more nuanced, qualitative evaluation of the program's impact on student performance.