Providing Academic, Co-curricular and Scholarship Supports for Talented Students Pursuing Associate's, Bachelor's and Master's Degrees in the Physical Sciences.

该项目将有助于对受过良好教育的科学家，工程师和技术人员的国家需要，通过支持高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，证明经济需要在俄勒冈州，乌姆普夸社区学院，莱恩社区学院和中央俄勒冈州社区学院的大学。S-STEM奖学金为期六年，将支持64名在社区大学最后一年攻读化学、生物化学和物理学学位的独特个人，作为在俄勒冈州大学获得学士学位的转学生，然后通过骑士校园研究生实习计划，这是俄勒冈州大学的硕士学位课程，包括9个月的带薪实习。本项目将研究教师和近同行指导，在各级队列建设活动的影响，和实习计划对学生的未来自我的发展，因为他们的进步沿着道路，以工业研究的职业生涯的看法。该项目开发了一种模式，建立和加强学生导师的跨机构文化，旨在提高低收入学生在科学领域的保留率，同时为校友提供进入高薪职业的轨迹。该项目的总体目标是提高低收入，高成就的本科生的STEM学位完成率，并证明经济需要。项目研究建立在K-12环境中使用的模型基础上，并以学生对未来的想象与他们的学术参与和坚持之间的关系的纵向研究为中心。通过调查，简短的期刊作业和对开放式问题的回答，这项研究将研究学生的选择，因为他们浏览教育过渡和评估如何指导和实习支持系统塑造他们的发展，作为未来的科学家。该项目有可能促进对有效工具和框架的理解，以支持STEM中低社会经济学生的保留。项目成果将通过期刊文章、讲座和视频传播给其他机构、州政府官员和行业领袖，这些视频将捕捉学生的经历并突出学生的成果。该项目由NSF的科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金计划资助，该计划旨在增加低收入学术人才的数量，这些学生表现出经济需求，并获得STEM领域的学位。它还旨在改善未来STEM工作者的教育，并产生关于低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业和学术/职业道路的知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at University of Oregon, Umpqua Community College, Lane Community College and Central Oregon Community College. Over its six-year duration, S-STEM scholarships will support 64 unique individuals pursuing degrees in chemistry, biochemistry, and physics during their final year at community college, as transfer students attaining a bachelor’s degree at the University of Oregon, and then through the Knight Campus Graduate Internship Program, a master’s degree program at University of Oregon that includes a 9-month paid internship. This project will examine the impacts of faculty and near-peer mentorship, cohort-building activities at all levels, and internship programs on the development of students’ perception of their future selves as they progress along pathways to industrial research careers. The project develops a model that establishes and enhances a cross-institutional culture of student mentorship with the aim of increasing retention of low-income students in science while providing a trajectory for alumni to enter high-wage careers.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. Project research builds upon models used in K-12 settings and centers on the longitudinal study of relationships between students’ imagining of their futures and their academic engagement and persistence. Through surveys, short journal assignments, and responses to open-ended questions, this research will examine students' choices as they navigate educational transitions and evaluate how mentorship and internship support systems shape their development as future scientists. This project has the potential to advance understanding of effective tools and frameworks to support retention of low socioeconomic students in STEM. Project results will be disseminated to other institutions, state officials, and industry leaders through journal articles, talks, and a video that captures student experiences and highlights student outcomes. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.