Bellarmine S-STEM Scholars Program

贝拉明 S-STEM 学者计划

• 批准号: 1154454
• 负责人: Akhtar Mahmood
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Bellarmine University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1154454&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bellarmine; STEM; Scholars; Program

Intellectual Merit: The purpose of this project is to award up to 20 scholarships each year for 4 years to recruit, retain, and graduate academically talented and financially needy undergraduate students majoring in Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Mathematics. The objectives of the S-STEM project are to (a) increase enrollment in the targeted STEM fields from underrepresented groups (women, ethnic minorities and first-generation students); (b) increase retention to degree achievement by providing improved educational opportunities in the targeted STEM fields so that the S-STEM scholars can achieve their best academic performance; (c) support these scholars through degree completion with a variety of structured institutional support programs, high quality enrichment activities, and partnering with potential employers to facilitate student career placement in the STEM workforce; and (d) prepare well-educated skilled STEM graduates and increase the number of STEM graduates who enter and remain in the workforce in a STEM-related professional job or enter graduate school in a STEM discipline. Broader Impact: The University is located in a region with a sizable low-income economically disadvantaged African-American inner-city population. The S-STEM leadership team is recruiting students from the local and regional high schools and from low-income families residing in both urban and rural areas, including the distressed counties as designated by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The specific support services that are available for these S-STEM scholars to ensure that they excel academically are: an S-STEM scholar orientation program, peer tutoring, faculty mentoring, professional development, and S-STEM living and learning community (which provides an opportunity for S-STEM scholars to live together). S-STEM scholars also have the opportunity to acquire valuable research skills by taking part in faculty-mentored research projects in their respective STEM disciplines, leading to presentations at professional conferences.

智力优势：该项目的目的是在 4 年内每年颁发最多 20 份奖学金，以招募、保留和毕业有学术才华且经济困难的本科生，主修物理、化学、计算机科学、计算机工程和数学。 S-STEM 项目的目标是 (a) 增加代表性不足的群体（妇女、少数民族和第一代学生）在目标 STEM 领域的入学人数； (b) 通过在目标 STEM 领域提供更好的教育机会来提高学位成绩的保留率，以便 S-STEM 学者能够取得最佳的学术表现； (c) 通过各种结构化的机构支持计划、高质量的充实活动以及与潜在雇主合作以促进学生在 STEM 劳动力中的职业安置，通过完成学位来支持这些学者； (d) 培养受过良好教育的熟练 STEM 毕业生，并增加进入并留在劳动力市场从事 STEM 相关专业工作或进入 STEM 学科研究生院的 STEM 毕业生数量。更广泛的影响：该大学位于市中心有大量低收入经济弱势非裔美国人的地区。 S-STEM 领导团队正在从当地和地区高中以及居住在城市和农村地区的低收入家庭（包括阿巴拉契亚地区委员会指定的贫困县）招收学生。为确保这些 S-STEM 学者在学术上取得优异成绩而提供的具体支持服务包括：S-STEM 学者定向计划、同伴辅导、教师指导、专业发展以及 S-STEM 生活和学习社区（提供S-STEM 学者共同生活的机会）。 S-STEM 学者还有机会通过参加各自 STEM 学科的教师指导的研究项目来获得宝贵的研究技能，并在专业会议上发表演讲。