Challenging Problems and Sustainable Solutions - Training a community of Interdisciplinary Sustainability Scholars

挑战性问题和可持续解决方案 - 培训跨学科可持续发展学者社区

• 批准号: 2221468
• 负责人: Andrea Hicks
• 金额: $ 150万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2028-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2221468&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Challenging; Problems; Sustainable; Solutions; Training

This project will contribute to the national need for well-educated scientists, technicians, engineers and mathematicians by supporting the retention and graduation of high-achieving, low-income students with demonstrated financial need at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison). Over its 6-year duration, this project will fund scholarships to at least 26 full-time students who are pursuing bachelor’s degrees fields such as engineering, biology, chemistry, environmental science, and mathematics. It will also support at least 6 junior STEM transfer students. The supported students will enroll in one of the multiple sustainability-focused certificates available, meet regularly as a cohort, and will have opportunities to be part of additional professional development experiences. A distinguishing feature of this project is an opportunity for paid summer internships at the Office of Sustainability between the freshman and sophomore year to gain professional experience in sustainability early in the students’ academic careers. In their junior and senior years, students will be part of a Community Environmental Scholars Program seminar, which will help them explore how their STEM discipline and their sustainability focus can connect to community service. The broader impacts of the project will improve access to STEM education for low-income students and ensure their successful degree completion. The project also explicitly connects STEM students with the broad issues of sustainability and community engagement, which can help to create well-rounded graduates while also promoting retention of students in STEM. The intellectual merit of the project involves the development of methods to educate STEM professionals to meet the strategic sustainability needs of the United States. The project meets this challenge by offering cohort-based sustainability training to STEM students from a wide range of disciplines, and explicitly training those students to work in teams as parts of a broader community of sustainability professionals.The overall goal of this project is to increase STEM degree completion of low-income, high-achieving undergraduates with demonstrated financial need. The project goals and specific aims include increasing the number of low-income STEM students who are sustainability experts. Sustainability has been suggested as an attractive theme with which to recruit and retain students. The project will be evaluated using surveys and interviews to see if it results in better retention and persistence in challenging STEM disciplines. The project results will be shared internally, through teaching and learning networks at UW–Madison, and externally through disciplinary conferences. 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.

该项目将通过支持威斯康星大学 - 麦迪逊分校（UW-Madison）的高成就，低收入学生的保留和毕业，以支持受过良好教育的科学家，技术人员，工程师和数学家的国家需求。在6年的持续时间内，该项目将为至少26名全职学生提供奖学金，这些学生正在追求工程，生物学，化学，环境科学和数学等学士学位领域。它还将支持至少6名初级STEM转移学生。受支持的学生将参加可用的多个以可持续性的证书之一，定期作为同伙见面，并有机会成为额外的专业发展经验的一部分。该项目的一个区别特征是在新生和大二年之间可持续发展办公室的有偿暑期实习机会的机会，以在学生学术职业的早期获得可持续性的专业经验。在大三和大四的时候，学生将成为社区环境学者计划的一部分，这将有助于他们探索他们的茎学科和可持续性的重点如何与社区服务联系起来。该项目的更广泛影响将改善低收入学生获得STEM教育的机会，并确保他们的成功学位完成。该项目还明确地将STEM学生与可持续性和社区参与的广泛问题联系起来，这可以帮助创建全面的毕业生，同时还可以促进学生在STEM中的保留。该项目的智力优点涉及开发教育STEM专业人员以满足美国战略可持续性需求的方法。该项目通过为来自广泛学科的杆学生提供基于队列的可持续性培训来应对这一挑战，并明确培训这些学生在团队中工作，作为更广泛的可持续性专业人员社区的一部分。该项目的总体目标是增加茎学位，使低收入的低收入，高学位的人不足以证明具有财务需求。项目目标和具体目标包括增加可持续性专家的低收入STEM学生的数量。已建议可持续性作为招募和留住学生的诱人主题。该项目将通过调查和访谈进行评估，以查看它是否会在挑战STEM学科中更好地保​​留和持久性。该项目的结果将通过UW – Madison的教学网络内部共享，并通过纪律会议在外部共享。该项目由NSF在科学，技术，工程和数学计划方面的奖学金提供资金，该计划旨在增加在STEM领域赢得学位的经济需求的准确治疗的低收入学生的数量。它还旨在改善未来STEM工人的教育，并为低收入学生的学术成功，保留，转移，毕业以及学术/职业途径提供知识。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的审查标准通过评估来通过评估来支持的。