Collaborative Research: A Bridge to Physics and Astronomy Doctorates for Students with Financial Need

合作研究：为有经济需要的学生攻读物理和天文学博士学位的桥梁

• 批准号: 1741862
• 负责人: Aaron Romanowsky
• 金额: $ 47.13万
• 依托单位: San Jose State University Foundation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1741862&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Bridge; Physics; Astronomy

With funding from the NSF's Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (S-STEM) program, this project at California State Polytechnic University Pomona (CalPoly Pomona) will support high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need. This project will fund 146 scholarships over five years for students who are pursuing bachelor's degrees in physics and astronomy. Participating scholars will join a cohort-based mentoring and undergraduate research program spanning a diverse network of more than 50 California higher education institutions. These institutions are dedicated to the goal of increasing the number of students pursuing PhDs in physics, astronomy, and associated STEM disciplines. Led by CalPoly Pomona and the University of California Irvine in Southern California, and by San Jose State University and the University of California Santa Cruz in Northern California, more than 140 physics and astronomy faculty at the 24 California State University (CSU) and University of California (UC) campuses in the bridge network will serve as mentors to scholars supported by the project. In addition to receiving biweekly mentoring and progress monitoring by pairs of one UC and one CSU professor, these scholars will also receive full need-based scholarships during their junior and senior years, monthly professional development workshops, and supervised research opportunities via the successful NSF-funded CAMPARE program.Given the size and diversity of the California secondary education system, the success of this S-STEM Track 3 project will likely significantly increase the number of PhDs nationwide earned by underrepresented minorities in the fields of physics and astronomy. All low-income students enrolled in a participating CSU campus are eligible for this California Bridge (Cal-Bridge) program, which searches for students with unusual potential, using holistic review and research-based criteria developed by successful bridge programs such as the Fisk-Vanderbilt Master's-to-PhD Bridge program. Unlike other existing bridge programs, Cal-Bridge begins with students during their formative undergraduate years, focusing on preparation rather than remediation. This multifaceted support will mitigate known barriers to graduate school entry for high-achieving, motivated students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds, and will thus greatly increase the probability they complete their undergraduate degree and gain entry to PhD programs. The project also involves multi-method social science research to understand the networks of scholars and institutions formed because of partnerships between Minority/Hispanic Serving Institutions and Research Universities, and the effect of those networks on recruitment and admissions to participating UC physics and astronomy departments. Over the five-years, social network analysis and qualitative case study methods will be used to capture patterns in Cal-Bridge Scholars' graduate school admissions and enrollment, as well as in impediments to these outcomes. These results, along with the project's growing connections with institutions beyond California, will have the potential to influence the national landscape of equitable participation by low-income students in STEM higher education.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.

NSF科学，技术，工程和数学奖学金（S-STEM）计划的资助，加利福尼亚州理工大学波莫纳（Calpoly Pomona）的该项目将支持具有经济需求的高级低收入学生。该项目将在五年内为攻读物理学和天文学学士学位的学生提供146个奖学金。参与的学者将加入一项基于队列的指导和本科研究计划，该计划涵盖了50多个加利福尼亚高等教育机构的多样化网络。 这些机构致力于增加从事物理，天文学和相关STEM学科的学生人数。由卡尔波利·波莫纳（Calpoly Pomona）和加利福尼亚州南加州大学欧文分校（Calpoly Pomona），圣何塞州立大学（San Jose State University）和加利福尼亚北部的加利福尼亚大学圣克鲁斯分校（Universion of California Santa Cruz）领导，有140多名加利福尼亚州立大学（CSU）和加利福尼亚大学（CSU）的物理学和天文学教师和加利福尼亚大学（UC）（UC）在桥梁网络中的校园将由该项目提供支持。除了通过一对UC和一名CSU教授双周进行两次指导和进度监控之外，这些学者还将在大三和高年级，每月的专业发展研讨会上获得全面的基于需求的奖学金，并通过成功的NSF资助的CAMPARE计划进行监督的研究机会。在物理和天文学领域的代表性不足的少数民族。参加参与CSU校园的所有低收入学生都有资格参加该加利福尼亚桥梁（CAL-BRIDGE）计划，该计划使用整体审查和由成功的桥梁计划（例如Fisk-visk-vanderbilt Masters-to-Phd-to-Phd-Phdd桥计划）制定的整体审查和基于研究的标准。与其他现有的桥梁计划不同，Cal-Bridge在学生成立的本科生期间从学生开始，专注于准备而不是补救。这项多方面的支持将减轻已知的障碍，以实现来自经济弱势背景的高成就，有动力的学生，因此将大大提高他们完成本科学位并获得博士学位课程的可能性。该项目还涉及多方法社会科学研究，以了解由于少数群体/西班牙裔服务机构与研究所之间的伙伴关系，以及这些网络对参与UC物理学和天文学部门参与的招聘和承认的影响，因此了解了成立的学者和机构网络。在五年中，社交网络分析和定性案例研究方法将用于捕获Cal-Bridge学者的研究生院录取和入学以及这些结果的障碍。这些结果以及该项目与加利福尼亚以外的机构的不断增长的联系将有可能影响低收入学生参加STEM高等教育的国家公平参与的国家景观。这项奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估来支持的。