STEM BUILD@UMBC: Student Training Core

STEM BUILD@UMBC：学生培训核心

• 批准号: 9313910
• 负责人: William Richard LaCourse
• 金额: $ 264.67万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-26 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9313910
• 关键词: Academic support; Administrator; Admission activity; Affinity; African American; Area; Bachelor' s Degree; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Benchmarking; Biochemical; Biochemistry; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Chemicals; Chemistry; Communities; Country; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Elements; Eligibility Determination; Emotional; Engineering; Engineering Psychology; Enrollment; Ensure; Faculty; Financial Support; Goals; Habits; Institution; Leadership; Mechanics; Mentors; Minority Participation; Modeling; Participant; Performance; Preparation; Readiness; Research; Research Activity; STEM career; STEM field; Scholarship; Schools; Social support; Students; Training Programs; Underrepresented Groups; Universities; base; career; college; community building; community college; expectation; experience; formative assessment; innovation; insight; interest; learning community; living-learning community; mathematical sciences; member; peer; programs; skills; social; statistics; stem; student participation; student training; success; transfer student; undergraduate research; university student

The goal of the proposed STEM BUILD@UMBC initiative is to create a comprehensive, multidimensional model for a public research university to increase the number of students from all backgrounds completing majors in the biomedical and behavioral sciences and entering graduate school and/or the STEM workforce. Through the nationally recognized Meyerhoff Scholars and MARC U*STAR programs, and other initiatives focused on increasing minority participation in STEM, UMBC faculty, staff, and administrators have learned key lessons about the importance of building community among aspiring STEM majors, setting high expectations, and providing students with significant research experiences and academic, financial, and social support. UMBC is nationally recognized as a model of innovation and inclusive excellence, and the campus is the leader among predominantly white institutions - and 6* among all universities - in the number of African American bachelor's degree recipients who go on to complete STEM Ph.D.s, with two-thirds of those alumni completing Ph.D.s in the life sciences (NSF, 2013). Large numbers of students begin their college experiences aspiring to complete majors in the life sciences and other STEM areas but switch to non-STEM majors or leave without earning baccalaureate degrees. Central to the STEM BUiLD@UMBC Student Training Core proposal is the development of a training program combining academic, social and financial support to help participants develop the study habits and skills needed to complete majors in the life sciences and related areas. The program will provide comprehensive support to 80 students over the five-year study period -native UMBC and transfer students - and aims in particular to involve students from groups that are currently underrepresented in STEM. One key element of the program is the development of UMBC's first STEM Living and Learning Community (LLC) to maximize social and emotional support while encouraging group study and other activities that build community. A project-based Affinity Group Research model will involve students in meaningful research activities, providing opportunities for academic enrichment while also increasing the likelihood they will persist in life science and other STEM majors.

拟议的 STEM BUILD@UMBC 计划的目标是创建一个全面的、多维的 公立研究型大学增加来自不同背景的学生数量的模型 主修生物医学和行为科学并进入研究生院和/或 STEM 劳动力队伍。 通过国家认可的 Meyerhoff 学者和 MARC U*STAR 计划以及其他举措 UMBC 的教职员工和管理人员致力于提高少数族裔对 STEM 的参与度 关于在有抱负的 STEM 专业中建立社区的重要性的重要教训，设置高 期望，并为学生提供重要的研究经验以及学术、财务和 社会支持。 UMBC 被全国公认为创新和包容性卓越的典范，并且 校园数量在以白人为主的院校中名列前茅，在所有大学中排名 6* 的非裔美国学士学位获得者继续完成 STEM 博士学位，其中三分之二 那些完成生命科学博士学位的校友（NSF，2013）。 大量学生开始他们的大学经历，渴望完成人生中的专业 科学和其他 STEM 领域，但转至非 STEM 专业或在未获得学士学位的情况下离开 度。 STEM BUiLD@UMBC 学生培训核心提案的核心是开发 培训计划结合学术、社会和财务支持，帮助参与者开展研究 完成生命科学及相关领域专业所需的习惯和技能。该计划将提供 在五年学习期间为 80 名学生提供全面支持 - UMBC 本地学生和转学生 - 旨在让目前在 STEM 中代表性不足的群体的学生参与其中。一键 该计划的重点是开发 UMBC 第一个 STEM 生活和学习社区 (LLC)，以 最大限度地提高社会和情感支持，同时鼓励小组学习和其他活动 社区。基于项目的亲和小组研究模型将使学生参与有意义的研究 活动，提供学术丰富的机会，同时也增加他们 坚持生命科学和其他STEM专业。