Transfer to Interdisciplinary Natural and Mathematical Sciences (TraIN) 2.0

转入跨学科自然与数学科学 (TraIN) 2.0

• 批准号: 2221321
• 负责人: Susannah Sandrin
• 金额: $ 149.97万
• 依托单位: Arizona State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-01-01 至 2028-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221321&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Transfer; Interdisciplinary; Natural; Mathematical; Sciences

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and technicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at Arizona State University’s New College of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences. Arizona State University serves a large proportion of Pell eligible, non-traditional and transfer students. Over its 5-year duration, this project will fund scholarships for 45 unique full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees in interdisciplinary natural and mathematical science majors including biology, forensic science, environmental science, pharmacology/toxicology, biotechnology, statistics, applied mathematics, and applied computing. Transfer students from partner community colleges and preparatory academies will receive scholarships for up to 3 years. This project aims to support students with great potential but fewer opportunities to achieve a college education in high-demand STEM fields within Arizona and across the United States. Students will be retained and supported in their undergraduate degree programs through relationships with faculty mentors, their peer cohort, alumni from the original scholarship project, peer mentors, professionals who will offer “soft skill” workshops, and industry mentors through shadowing in a research laboratory. As an institution with a diverse population of low-income and non-traditional transfer students, this project has the potential to broaden participation within the STEM workforce in the southwestern U.S. and beyond. Furthermore, it will continue to develop a network of scholars who will support future graduating scholars as they enter the STEM workforce.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. This proposal builds on a current project that created a transfer consortium in the Phoenix metropolitan area between three Hispanic-Serving community colleges and the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science at Arizona State University. This new project expands the reach to additional community college and high school partners in the Phoenix metropolitan area. The project will support 45 unique scholars at Arizona State University for up to three years with scholarships of up to $10,000/year, as they work toward a STEM degree. Additionally, the project will remove barriers to student participation in research and internships that improve STEM workforce readiness. This scholarship project plans to study the effectiveness of implementing research and/or internship shadowing with a low-income, diverse and primarily non-traditional transfer population. Project findings should advance the understanding of how less formal shadowing experiences with peer and faculty mentors increase student confidence about seeking out and engaging with longer-term research/internship experiences. Furthermore, the project intends to examine whether students who engage in longer-term research and internship experiences are more likely than their peer group to enter the STEM workforce or graduate school after graduation. This project hopes to build STEM talent by adding new professionals from, and returning these graduates to, the high-need Phoenix job market. These newly minted professionals will be highly connected with other STEM professionals in interdisciplinary fields through shadowing and internship experiences, allowing them to be influential innovators for the future of STEM, and mentors to STEM students who follow in their footsteps. Project staff will disseminate best practices to other colleges and universities by hosting a workshop, presenting at events such as the AZ Transfer Summit and various national and international meetings, and through publications. This project is funded by NSF’s Scholarships in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics program, which seeks to increase the number of low-income academically talented students with demonstrated financial need who earn degrees in STEM fields. It also aims to improve the education of future STEM workers, and to generate knowledge about academic success, retention, transfer, graduation, and academic/career pathways of low-income students.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.

该项目将在亚利桑那州立大学的新科学学院的新科学和科学大学中，将需要受过教育的科学家和高分，低收入的毕业。转移学生在其5年期间，该项目将为45名独特的全日制学生提供奖学金来自合作伙伴社区和预科学院的学生最多将获得3年的奖学金。学位的统一导师，他们的同伴同伴奖学金项目，同伴导师，专业人士将提供“软技能”讲习班，而行业导师在研究实验室中遮蔽了这个项目。在进入STEM劳动力的情况下，有可能在美国西南部及以后的劳动力中进行参与。这项提议建立在当前的凤凰城大都会西班牙裔美国人服务学院和亚利桑那州的新跨学科艺术与科学学院。最多三年的奖学金是$ 10,000/年份的stem degree。教师的指导者对寻求长期研究/实习经验的人的信心更多。通过添加来自这些毕业生的新专业人员并将这些新铸造的专业人士与其他STHER STEM专业人员一起在跨学科领域和实习生中的其他专业人士添加新专业人士，并将其作为其他最佳实践的创新者通过举办AZ转会峰会和诸如该项目的出版物，由NSF的科学，技术和数学资助，该活动旨在增加具有经济需求的低水平学生的数量o在STEM领域中获得衰落的人。基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响评论标准。