Broadening Participation, Fostering Cultural Wealth, and Increasing Student Success Through an Undergraduate Research Training Program

通过本科生研究培训计划扩大参与、培育文化财富并提高学生的成功

• 批准号: 2345290
• 负责人: William Frankino
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of Houston
• 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: 2024-07-01 至 2028-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2345290&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Fostering; Cultural; Wealth

With support from the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSI Program), this Track 2 project will support undergraduate students with significant financial need in biology and biochemistry at the University of Houston. Specifically, the project will engage cohorts of students in a two-semester capstone course that lays the foundation for future research experiences. Participating students will develop critical scientific and workforce skills in a welcoming environment and explore opportunities in STEM graduate education and the STEM workforce. After the capstone course, students will be placed in research labs with engaged, responsive mentors that can help them experience first-hand how science is created and communicated. The emphasis on students with financial need is critical, as lower-income individuals often face challenges that can exclude them from research opportunities and other experiences. These students are also disproportionally from populations that have been historically underrepresented in many STEM disciplines, making the project’s effort important to the larger goal of harnessing the full spectrum of talent across the nation. The primary goals of this project are to: i) increase STEM preparation, self-efficacy, and identity through a developmental training course sequence; ii) nurture students’ cultural wealth by facilitating lab placements where they can conduct research with experienced and responsive mentors; and iii) facilitate the transition to STEM careers or post-graduate study. The mixed methods project research plan will connect measures of student engagement, sense of belonging in STEM, self-efficacy, and persistence with key components of the project. Project evaluation will further explore the implementation of the project’s components and identify how the project helps participants overcome new or known barriers to their success. Findings will be shared through faculty and student presentations at professional meetings, scholarly publications, and student-centered outreach events and popular media. This project is funded by the HSI Program, which aims to enhance undergraduate STEM education, broaden participation in STEM, and build capacity at HSIs.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.

在改善本科STEM教育的支持下：西班牙裔服务机构（HSI计划），该曲目2项目将支持休斯敦大学生物学和生物化学巨大经济需求的本科生。具体而言，该项目将与学生队列一起参加两学期的顶峰课程，为未来的研究经验奠定了基础。参与的学生将在受欢迎的环境中发展重要的科学和劳动力技能，并探索STEM研究生教育和STEM劳动力的机会。在Capstone课程之后，学生将被安置在研究实验室中，并通过参与的，响应迅速的导师，可以帮助他们亲身体验科学的创建和传达方式。对有财务需求的学生的重视至关重要，因为低收入个人经常面临可以将他们排除在研究机会和其他经验之外的挑战。这些学生的人口也不成比例，这些人口在许多STEM学科中的人口不足，这使得该项目的努力对利用全国各地的全部人才的更大目标很重要。该项目的主要目标是：i）通过发展的培训课程来提高茎的准备，自我效能和身份； ii）护士学生的文化财富通过支持实验室安置，他们可以与经验丰富且反应迅速的导师进行研究； iii）促进过渡到STEM职业或研究生研究。混合方法项目研究计划将与项目的关键组成部分联系在一起的学生参与度，属于STEM，自我有效和持久性的归属感。项目评估将进一步探讨项目组件的实施，并确定该项目如何帮助参与者克服其成功的新障碍或已知障碍。调查结果将通过专业会议，学术出版物以及以学生为中心的外展活动和受欢迎的媒体在教师和学生演讲中分享。该项目由HSI计划提供资金，该计划旨在增强本科STEM教育，扩大参与STEM并在HSIS上建立能力。该奖项反映了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影响审查标准通过评估来获得支持的。