澳门威尼斯人网址最近获得了1美元的奖励.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support students pursuing degrees in STEM majors. The grant will fund scholarships and paid re搜索 opportunities for academically talented, low-income students with unmet financial need through Doane’s Sustaining 本科 Classroom and Career Excellence for STEM Students (成功) Program.
“The 成功 program provides a terrific opportunity for students to break into the fields of science, 技术, 工程与数学,”医生说。. 克里斯·威廉姆斯, 数学副教授, director of institutional effectiveness at Doane, and the principal investigator of the grant. “We’re thrilled to have this funding from the NSF to continue encouraging low-income students to gain degrees in these fields, which helps diversify and create a more equitable STEM community.”
This is the second time the university has received funding to support the 成功 program through the NSF’s 奖学金 in Science, 技术, Engineering and Mathematics (S-STEM) program. The program provides students with up to $7,800 in scholarships annually (and up to $31,200 over four years) enrolled in Doane’s Biology, 生物化学, 化学, Engineering or Natural Sciences and Environmental Sciences degree programs. Doane will offer the scholarship to three cohorts of ten students starting in 2023.
In addition to financial support, students participating in the 成功 program benefit from:
- A dedicated community within Doane’s residence halls. All first-year students in the program will be in a Living-Learning Community with a peer mentor to help them acclimate to campus life, 远离家乡学习和生活.
- Advising and mentoring from faculty to help them develop individual plans of courses and experiences at Doane that will prepare them for careers or graduate studies.
- Opportunities to participate in re搜索 or internships, including on campus.
- Common coursework that allows students to learn college skills together, and to participate in STEMinars each semester that explore new scientific discoveries and promote career and graduate school preparation.
Doane had 38 students participate in the first cohort of the 成功 program, with 74% (28 students) graduating within four years. Sixteen of those 28 have continued in STEM careers or graduate programs, and the remaining 12 went on to medical fields, professional programs or non-STEM graduate programs. 10名退出项目的学生中, two continued at Doane in other programs and 8 transferred to other schools.
Marisa Foster ’20 was part of the first cohort, and graduated in December 2019 after 3.5 years with her Bachelor of Science in Biology and a minor in Spanish. She is currently participating in an Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education (ORISE) fellowship with the Centers for Disease Control in Fort Collins, 科罗拉多州.
The 成功 program was a deciding factor in her attending Doane, 这位梅伍德公立学校的毕业生说. 她的妹妹也上过大学, and she had met with several faculty members before, 包括博士. 泰莎·达勒姆·布鲁克斯, 生物学副教授, with whom she would later work for as a re搜索 assistant. She had also been impressed by the capabilities of Doane’s labs and STEM facilities.
“我知道我必须自己支付大学学费, so my college choice did come down quite a bit to where I could get the best scholarship. The 成功 scholarship brought down the amount I would have to pay, and also felt prestigious. Receiving it felt like I was getting recognition for the hard work I had already done in high school,福斯特说.
福斯特开始读医学预科, but through her experiences in the 成功 program, quickly discovered that re搜索 was her passion. She threw herself into re搜索 opportunities, 和布鲁克斯一起研究细菌, 探索病毒学研究. Dane Bowder, assistant professor of biology.
“The [成功] program gave me so many experiences that I used to discover what my own interests and passions were. And all of the lab experiences have given me a leg up in working in the CDC’s labs now,福斯特说.
除了威廉姆斯之外，鲍德博士. Blake Colclasure, assistant professor of natural science and environmental studies, Dr. Chris Huber, associate professor of chemistry, and Dr. 凯尔Stolle, 工程助理教授, serve as co-principal investigators for the S-STEM grant. More information about the 成功 program is available Doane网站.edu.
