LSAMP BD: Florida International University FGLSAMP

路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）项目通过培养在STEM学科中代表性不足的人群中具有高度竞争力的学生，帮助大学和学院实现STEM劳动力多样化：非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美洲印第安人、阿拉斯加原住民、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活动的演出地点是佛罗里达国际大学（FIU），佛罗里达-乔治亚州路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（FGLSAMP）的14所学院和大学之一。该项目将招募12名合格的LSAMP研究员，并采用创新和灵活的结构，根据研究员的计划和需求，在财务、学术和社会上支持他们的研究生课程。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，该项目还提供指导教育和培训计划，以建立多样化的师徒联盟；一个多层次的专业发展计划，为学习、专业社交和同伴支持创造机会；以及通过迈阿密戴德学院STEM Mia项目以及其他FIU和社区倡议开展STEM推广的机会。通过在全国范围内招募LSAMP学生，并实施先前在本科生和研究生中培养高水平成就的学术干预策略，FIU的FGLSAMP BD活动将有助于使美国STEM劳动力多样化，并培养下一代STEM全球领导者。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 by developing highly competitive students from populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, American Indians, Alaska Natives, 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 of 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 Florida International University (FIU), one of the fourteen colleges and universities included in the Florida-Georgia Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (FGLSAMP). 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 and flexible structure that is individualized to the plans 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 offers a mentoring education and training program to build diverse mentor-mentee alliances; a multi-tiered Professional Development Program to create opportunities for learning, professional socialization and peer support; and opportunities for STEM outreach through Miami Dade College STEM Mia program as well as other FIU and community-based initiatives. Through the national recruitment of LSAMP students and the implementation of academic intervention strategies that have previously fostered high levels of achievement among both undergraduates and graduate students, the FGLSAMP BD activity at FIU will contribute to diversifying the US STEM workforce and the training of the next generation of global leaders in STEM.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.