LSAMP BD: Clemson University, LS SCAMP

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划帮助大学和学院通过努力显着提高竞争力和历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）人口的学生数量，为国家实现科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）劳动力的多样化，以成功完成高质量的STEM学位课程。克莱姆森大学提议建立一个通往博士学位（BD）项目的桥梁，以显著增加工程和科学领域代表性不足的学生的招聘、保留和毕业，重点是先进材料。克莱姆森大学是路易斯·斯托克斯南卡罗来纳少数民族参与联盟（LS-SCAMP）的成员。克莱姆森大学BD （CUBD）项目将招收一组12名博士生。两所学院的12个系已承诺参与该项目。该计划的一个独特之处在于，该计划的学生的研究和学术重点将是先进材料，这是南卡罗来纳州和美国先进制造业和经济发展的关键。因此，CUBD学者将成为跨学科队列小组的一部分。cud计划将启动一项计划，为未被充分代表的少数族裔STEM研究生做好准备，以确保在研究型职业中取得成功。随着研究、工业和技术的发展，多功能、适应性和先进材料的材料基因组得到了发展，克莱姆森大学博士学位桥梁项目（CUBD）解决了支持、培训和整合不同研究人员和研究经验的需求。CUBD项目将专注于培养具有领先先进材料研究专业知识的不同科学领导者。这项工作将推动无机和有机材料的基本进步，为各种应用领域的先进材料和系统的发展提供信息和定义未来的研究方向。该主题的选择和完善基于(1)南卡罗来纳州（SC）的战略教育和经济重点；(2)在克莱姆森大学多个部门拥有广泛的专业知识；(3)在供应链中大量存在基于材料的制造；(4)该项目与EPSCoR Track 1 RII奖（Materials Assembly and Design Excellence (MADE) in SC）相一致，该奖项是由nsf资助的全国性大型奖项；(4)国家战略重点（即材料基因组计划[MGI]）。参与CUBD计划的博士学者将在先进材料方面进行研究，这与国家，州和机构的研究重点是一致的。单个项目将整合实验/理论、模拟和数据科学方法，以加速先进材料的开发和部署。CUBD计划的创新之处在于对研究生社会化的文化维持教学模式的解释和交付。该项目将探索利用现有大学资源的潜力，以提高代表性不足的少数民族研究生的经验。这将扩大我们对大学如何识别和定位其资源以支持可持续模式的认识，以适当响应其代表性不足的少数族裔STEM研究生的需求。此外，该项目将提供一个了解如何被低估的少数民族研究生STEM学生可以社会化成为蓬勃发展的研究人员在学术界，私营企业，非政府组织和政府机构。这种方法将特别有助于我们理解如何利用与种族和民族身份相关的文化价值观来积极影响这一过程，以培养致力于研究的毕业生。无论是个人还是集体，CUBD的学者们都将推进对一系列材料的加工、表征和性能的研究。该项目由路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟和促进竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。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 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) workforce for the nation through their efforts at significantly increasing the competitiveness and numbers of students from historically underrepresented minority (URM) populations to successfully complete high quality degree programs in STEM.Clemson University proposes to establish a Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) Program to significantly increase the recruitment, retention, and graduation of underrepresented students in engineering and science with a focus on advanced materials. Clemson University is a member of the Louis Stokes South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation (LS-SCAMP). The Clemson University BD (CUBD) program will recruit a single cohort of twelve doctoral students. Twelve departments in two colleges have committed to participate in this program. A unique feature of this program is that the research and scholarly focus of the students in this program will be advanced materials, which are key to advanced manufacturing and economic development within South Carolina and the United States. As a result, the CUBD scholars will be part of an interdisciplinary cohort group. The CUBD program will initiate a program to prepare underrepresented minority graduate STEM students to secure and thrive in research-based careers. As research, industry and technology warrant the advancement of the materials genome for multi-functional, adaptive and advanced materials, the Clemson University Bridge to the Doctorate (CUBD) Program addresses the need to support, train and integrate a diverse body of researchers and research experiences the CUBD program will focus on developing a diverse cohort of scientific leaders with expertise in leading advanced materials research. This effort will drive fundamental advances in inorganic and organic materials to inform and define future research directions for the development of advanced materials and systems across a spectrum of applications. The topic was selected and refined based on (1) South Carolina’s (SC)’s strategic educational and economic priorities; (2) broad subject expertise across many departments at Clemson; (3) significant presence of materials-based manufacturing in SC; (4) alignment of the project with the large, statewide, NSF-funded EPSCoR Track 1 RII award entitled Materials Assembly and Design Excellence (MADE) in SC; and (4) national strategic priorities (i.e., the Materials Genome Initiative [MGI]). The PhD scholars participating in the CUBD program will conduct research in advanced materials, which is well aligned with national, state, and institutional research priorities. Individual projects will integrate experimental/theory, simulation, and data science approaches to accelerate the development and deployment of advanced materials. The innovation of the CUBD Program lies in the interpretation and delivery of a culturally sustaining pedagogical model of graduate student socialization. This project will explore the potential of leveraging existing university resources to enhance the experience of underrepresented minority graduate students. This will expand our awareness of how universities can identify and position their resources to support a sustainable model that is appropriately responsive to the needs of their underrepresented minority STEM graduate students. Additionally, this project will provide an understanding of how underrepresented minority graduate STEM students can be socialized to become thriving researchers in the academy, private industry, non-governmental organizations, and government agencies. This approach will specifically contribute to our understanding of how cultural values related to racial and ethnic identity can be utilized to positively influence this process to develop graduates committed to their role as researchers. Individually and collectively, the CUBD scholars will advance research on the processing, characterization, and properties of a broad class of materials.The project is jointly funded by the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.