Garden State LSAMP Bridges to the Doctorate at Rutgers University, Newark

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目帮助大学和学院通过培养具有高度竞争力的学生，使STEM劳动力多样化，这些学生来自历史上在STEM学科中代表性不足的群体：非洲裔美国人、阿拉斯加原住民、美洲印第安人、西班牙裔美国人、夏威夷原住民和太平洋原住民。LSAMP通往博士学位的桥梁（BD）活动的目标是提高来自代表性不足人群的STEM研究生的数量和质量，重点是博士入学和完成。在美国高等教育机构实施的BD项目有助于实现美国国家科学基金会2018-2022年战略计划的目标之一，即“培养一支更有能力和多样化的研究队伍，提高国家的科学和创新技能”。这项资助的愿景是提供一个全国性的模式，以培养具有STEM博士学位的代表性不足的科学家和工程师。这次LSAMP BD活动的演出地点是纽瓦克的罗格斯大学，这是花园州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（GSLSAMP）的八所学院和大学之一。该项目将招募12名合格的LSAMP研究员，并通过他们的研究生课程在财务、学术和社会方面为他们提供支持，采用创新的灵活结构，根据研究员的愿望和需求个性化。除了提供大量的资金支持，使学生能够专注于研究生水平的课程和研究，该项目还提供了一套综合的最佳实践，旨在推动BD学生完成博士水平的研究。最佳实践包括跟踪/监测、临界点干预、研究生研究奖学金计划和其他支持研讨会、桥梁到桥梁的指导、博士后应用研讨会等。可选活动包括少数民族生物医学研究支持计划、GSLSAMP、纽瓦克STEAM联盟生态系统以及纽约大都会地区丰富的专业、教育、推广和研究STEM机会。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program assists universities and colleges in diversifying the STEM workforce through the development of highly competitive students from groups historically underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African-Americans, Alaska Natives, American Indians, Hispanic Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Native Pacific Islanders. The goal of the LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Activity is to increase the quantity and quality of STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations, with emphasis on PhD matriculation and completion. BD programs implemented in the nation's institutions of higher education contribute to addressing one of the objectives in NSF's 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, namely to "foster the growth of a more capable and diverse research workforce and advance the scientific and innovation skills of the Nation." The vision of this grant is to provide a national model to produce underrepresented scientists and engineers with doctoral degrees in STEM.The performance site for this LSAMP BD Activity is Rutgers University, Newark, one of the eight college and universities included in the Garden State Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (GSLSAMP). The project will recruit a cohort of 12 qualified LSAMP fellows and support them financially, academically and socially through their graduate program using an innovative flexible structure that is individualized to the desires and needs of the fellow. In addition to providing substantial financial support to enable students to focus full time on graduate-level course work and research, the project provides an integrated set of best practices designed to advance BD students toward completion of doctoral level studies. The best practices include tracking/monitoring, critical point interventions, Graduate Research Fellowship Program and other support workshops, bridge-to-the-bridge orientation, post-doctoral application workshops and others. The optional activities include opportunities with the Minority Biomedical Research Support program, GSLSAMP, the Newark STEAM coalition ecosystem and the wealth of professional, educational, outreach and research STEM opportunities in the New York metropolitan area.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.