Scholarships for Academically Talented and Financially Disadvantaged Undergraduate and Graduate Students

为学术优秀且经济困难的本科生和研究生提供奖学金

• 批准号: 1259941
• 负责人: Jeffrey Evanseck
• 金额: $ 61.79万
• 依托单位: Duquesne University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2019-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1259941&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Scholarships; Academically; Talented; Financially; Disadvantaged

The project is leveraging a long-standing commitment of the university to provide upward social mobility to low-income students. To this end, the project is awarding scholarships to approximately nineteen unique individuals thereby enabling one advanced undergraduate, nine entering freshmen, six students transferring from 2-year schools, and 3 entering graduate students, to complete either a bachelor's or doctor of philosophy degree in chemistry within four (or two for the transfer students) years of matriculating to Duquesne.Intellectual Merit: The project is augmenting existing, high quality student-support services with a novel mentoring plan that engages undergraduate students, graduate students, and faculty, both in their traditional academic endeavors but also in the development of skills that will lead to valuable STEM workforce personnel. The project is enabling student success in timely completion of degrees through cohort formation that addresses the challenges of course work. The professional development activities are reinforcing essential skills such as time management, prioritization, critical thinking, writing like a scientist, scientific speaking, advanced instrumentation, and leadership. Broader Impacts: This successful program is documenting how research universities can integrate scholarship support across all levels of their educational enterprise while ensuring financially-challenged students, at any level, are able to pursue a quality higher education degree. The project is also cementing relationships between the university, local groups that aid in recruiting underserved student populations, and the local industry in which many graduates have found and will continue to find satisfying STEM careers that are also beneficial to society.

该项目利用大学的长期承诺向低收入学生提供向上的社会流动性。 为此，该项目正在向大约十九个独特的人授予奖学金，从而使一名高级本科生，九名新生，六名学生从2年的学校转学，3名进入研究生，以完成四个（或2名转移学生）的化学学士学位或哲学博士学位。学生支持的服务通过一项新颖的指导计划，吸引本科生，研究生和教职员工，均参与其传统的学术努力，还可以发展有价值的STEM劳动力人员的技能。 该项目正在通过及时完成学位的队列形成，从而使学生取得成功，以解决当然的工作的挑战。 专业发展活动正在增强基本技能，例如时间管理，优先考虑，批判性思维，像科学家一样的写作，科学演讲，高级仪器和领导才能。更广泛的影响：该成功的计划正在记录研究大学如何将奖学金支持整合到其所有级别的教育企业中，同时确保任何级别的财务挑战的学生都能够攻读优质的高等教育学位。 该项目还巩固了大学，有助于招募服务不足的学生人数的地方团体之间的关系，以及许多毕业生发现并将继续寻找对社会也有益的令人满意的STEM职业的当地行业。