Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI) Geoscience Course

阿拉斯加乡村荣誉学院 (RAHI) 地球科学课程

• 批准号: 0602725
• 负责人: Catherine Hanks
• 金额: $ 5.39万
• 依托单位: University of Alaska Fairbanks Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-04-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0602725&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Rural; Alaska; Honors; Institute; RAHI

An integrated, intergenerational approach is being developed to attract young Alaska Natives to the geosciences as a career and to encourage declared Alaska Native geoscience majors to continue their studies. A college-level, field-intensive, introductory geoscience course is being designed specifically for the high school juniors and seniors enrolled at the Rural Alaska Honors Institute (RAHI). This class will introduce Alaska Native students to the geologic issues and concerns relevant to Alaska Natives and their communities. Native undergraduate and graduate geoscience majors from the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) will work with geoscience faculty as teaching assistants and mentors to the RAHI students. This will provide an additional opportunity for geology majors to interact with faculty on an individual basis, examine the geologic issues facing Alaska Natives, and explore geology as a profession. This program is working with UAF's Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program, the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program (ANSEP), to provide student advising, tutoring and scholarship support for Alaska Native undergraduate and graduate students currently in or entering the UAF geoscience program.

正在开发一种综合的代际方法，以吸引年轻的阿拉斯加土著人作为职业，并鼓励宣布为阿拉斯加宣布的阿拉斯加土著地球科学专业继续学习。正在为阿拉斯加农村荣誉研究所（RAHI）入学的高中大三学生和高年级学生设计的大学一级，现场密集型地球科学课程。该课程将向阿拉斯加土著学生介绍与阿拉斯加原住民及其社区有关的地质问题和关注。来自阿拉斯加大学Fairbanks（UAF）的本地本科生和研究生地球科学专业将与地球科学教师合作，担任Rahi学生的助教和导师。这将为地质专业的额外机会提供个人与教师互动，研究阿拉斯加本地人面临的地质问题，并探索地质作为一种职业。该计划正在与UAF的路易斯·斯托克斯（Louis Stokes）少数群体参与计划（LSAMP）计划，阿拉斯加本地科学与工程计划（ANSEP）合作，为目前在Alaska本地本科生和目前涉及UAF地理学计划的学生提供咨询，辅导和奖学金支持。