Attract, Retain, and Graduate Young LifE Scientists (ARGYLES)

吸引、留住和培养年轻生命科学家 (ARGYLES)

• 批准号: 1564728
• 负责人: Tatiana Jones
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: Rivier University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-15 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1564728&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Attract; Retain; Graduate; Young; LifE

The "Attract, Retain, and Graduate Young Life Scientists (ARGYLES)" project at Rivier University will support and engage students majoring in biology as emergent scientists who will contribute to the vitality of the STEM pipeline in the Northeast. The program will recruit and enroll 10 low-income, academically talented students (five each in two cohorts) and will provide scholarships for four years. ARGYLES will strengthen the biology community at Rivier and create a feedback loop of confidence and motivation to help students both learn science and identify themselves as scientists, two key criteria for persistence to graduation in STEM disciplines. The goal of the program will be for 90% of scholars to complete their first two years of the biology program, and 80% will be retained until graduation. Upon graduation students will either continue to graduate school or find employment in a STEM field. Recruitment efforts will focus on low-income, underrepresented minority, and first-generation students. Through the use of a persistence framework that fosters students' professional identification, confidence, and motivation to succeed, the project will provide an innovative, integrated approach to building community that enables students to be supported by peers, faculty, and other academic resources. With guidance from a social science researcher from the Department of Psychology and an external evaluator, the project evaluation will examine the effectiveness of these program strategies and will generate evidence that can be used to support sustained programming and propagation to other departments and institutions. The project will benefit both individual scholarship recipients, but will contribute to shaping Rivier's STEM academic and support systems as the university focuses on building community and promoting global engagement.

里维尔大学（Rivier University）的“吸引，保留和研究生毕业的年轻生活科学家（Argyles）”项目将支持并吸引主修生物学的学生作为新兴的科学家，他们将有助于东北的STEM管道的活力。 该计划将招募并注册10名低收入，学术才华的学生（每个人中有5个），并将提供四年的奖学金。 Argyles将加强Rivier的生物学社区，并创建一个自信和动力的反馈循环，以帮助学生学习科学并确定自己是科学家，这是Stem学科毕业的两个关键标准。 该计划的目的是让90％的学者完成生物学计划的前两年，而80％的学者将保留直到毕业。 毕业后，学生要么继续研究生院，要么在STEM领域找到工作。 招聘工作将集中于低收入，代表性不足的少数民族和第一代学生。 通过使用持续框架来促进学生的专业身份，信心和成功的动力，该项目将为建立社区提供创新的，综合的方法，使学生能够得到同龄人，教职员工和其他学术资源的支持。 在心理学系和外部评估者的社会科学研究人员的指导下，项目评估将研究这些计划策略的有效性，并将生成可用于支持其他部门和机构的持续编程和传播的证据。 该项目将受益于两个个人奖学金获得者，但随着大学的重点关注建立社区和促进全球参与，将有助于塑造Rivier的STEM学术和支持系统。