Planning grant Increasing geoscience graduate student diversity in Tennessee's flagship state university

规划拨款增加田纳西州旗舰州立大学地球科学研究生的多样性

• 批准号: 2326716
• 负责人: Reginald Archer
• 金额: $ 24万
• 依托单位: Tennessee State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2025-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2326716&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; grant; Increasing; geoscience; graduate; Planning; grant; Increasing; geoscience; graduate

This project aims to increase the diversity and representation of historically excluded groups in the geosciences, which are among the least diverse of all the natural sciences in the United States. The project will develop a long-term collaboration between Tennessee State University (TSU), the major historically black college and university (HBCU) in Tennessee, and University of Tennessee at Knoxville (UTK), the flagship research university in Tennessee, to strengthen their Earth sciences academic and research activities. The project will benefit both the students and the geoscience community by providing opportunities for academic and professional development, enhancing the diversity and inclusion of the geoscience workforce, and advancing the scientific understanding of Earth and planetary processes.The project will use a combination of methods to achieve its goals, such as: 1) campus visits by faculty to lead class lectures or present at department seminars, 2) UTK and TSU collaborative mentorship of student research projects during the regular school year, 3) UTK faculty mentorship of TSU student research as summer interns at UTK, and 4) access of TSU undergraduates to four introductory geology online courses offered by UTK: 101 (physical geology), 102 (historical geology), 103 (environmental geology), and 104 (planetary geology). The project will also create paid research internships for undergraduate students, and proactively advertise them with campus organizations that promote diversity and inclusion. The project will organize culturally sensitive mentoring training for all Earth and Planetary Sciences faculty personnel who have existing undergraduate research funding opportunities. The project will document the success of these methods via focus-group evaluation by the National Institute for STEM Evaluation and Research at UTK. Success metrics will include student research publications, conference presentations, graduate school admissions, and student feedback.This project is funded by the Geoscience Opportunities for Leadership in Diversity Program and the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Excellence in Research Program.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.

该项目旨在增加地球科学中历史上排除的群体的多样性和代表，这些群体是美国所有自然科学中最不多样化的群体。该项目将在田纳西州立大学（TSU），田纳西州的主要历史黑人学院和大学（HBCU）和田纳西州诺克斯维尔大学（UTK）的田纳西大学（田纳西州诺克斯维尔大学）之间建立长期合作，以增强他们的地球科学学术和研究活动。 The project will benefit both the students and the geoscience community by providing opportunities for academic and professional development, enhancing the diversity and inclusion of the geoscience workforce, and advancing the scientific understanding of Earth and planetary processes.The project will use a combination of methods to achieve its goals, such as: 1) campus visits by faculty to lead class lectures or present at department seminars, 2) UTK and TSU collaborative mentorship of student research projects during the常规学年，3）UTK学生研究的UTK教师研究作为UTK的暑期实习生，以及4）TSU本科生访问UTK提供的四个入门地质在线课程：101（物理地质学），102（历史地质学），103（环境地质学）和104（Planetary Geology）。该项目还将为本科生创建有偿研究实习，并与促进多样性和包容性的校园组织主动宣传它们。该项目将为拥有本科研究资金机会的所有地球和行星科学人员组织文化敏感的指导培训。该项目将通过美国国立STEM评估与UTK研究所的焦点组评估来记录这些方法的成功。成功指标将包括学生研究出版物，会议演讲，研究生院的录取和学生反馈。该项目由地球科学领导力的多样性计划和历史上的黑人学院和大学 - 卓越的研究计划中的奖项提供了资金。该奖项反映了NSF的立法使命，并被认为是通过基金会的智力评估来评估的，并值得通过评估来评估基金会的范围。