Bridges to the Baccalaureate Research Training Program at University of Alabama at Birmingham

通往阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校学士学位研究培训计划的桥梁

• 批准号: 10495043
• 负责人: NICHOLAS W. KIN
• 金额: $ 27.19万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10495043
• 关键词: Address; Alabama; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical Research; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational workshop; Funding; Graduate Education; Grant; Internships; Knowledge; Learning; Mentors; Methods; Minority; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Population; Research; Research Training; Scholarship; Schools; Students; Time; Training Programs; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; bridge to the baccalaureate; career; community college; cost; minority student; peer coaching; programs; recruit; skills; success; summer research; undergraduate student; university student

Biomedical research is expanding rapidly in the US; however, minorities continue to be underrepresented in this workforce, constituting ~29% of the US population, but receiving only ~7% of PhD degrees and only ~4% of NIH RO1 grants. Many minority students lack early engagement and opportunities to develop skills and content knowledge to complete BS programs. For over 10 years Jefferson State Community College (JSCC) and the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have partnered to develop a dynamic program to bridge minority JSCC students into undergraduate and graduate biomedical and behavioral education and careers. Our current Bridges to Biomedical Careers grant (BBC) predicted that 75% of students would gain a BS in 5 years, 35% would enter biomedical graduate education and 35% would enter biomedical careers. Of the 95 students in BBC, 98% have completed or are currently completing a BS in biomedical/behavioral sciences in 5 years or less, 100% are minorities, and 75% are in (or applying for) biomedical and behavioral graduate programs. The remaining 25% are pursuing research careers with their BS. One of the greatest challenges for students in BBC has been their need to work during the school year to pay for their tuition, decreasing the time they could work on their research. The new NIGMS B2B program addresses this challenge by funding students to carry out research throughout the entire year, starting with a summer research internship in their rising sophomore year. Bridges-UAB takes advantage of this greater student funding to enhance student success even further. It will include a very rigorous recruitment of freshman students at JSCC, including a research workshop and intro to research course and develop other JSCC and UAB partnership biomedical courses. Bridges-UAB will promote closer interactions between JSCC and UAB in research and education and provide students at JSCC and UAB with educational opportunities, internships and mentoring that will immerse them into biomedical and behavioral research and prepare them for research careers. Bridges-UAB will provide scholarships to cover the sophomore and junior years, and UAB plans to cover most senior year costs, thus paving the way for the students to focus on learning and their cutting-edge research. Upper- level students will be encouraged to be peer mentors to newer students, and top Bridges-UAB students will return to present their research at JSCC in the workshop and other courses, encouraging the JSCC students to consider research careers. The Broader Impact will be to expand the diversity of the biomedical research workforce. The Intellectual Merit will be to identify methods that engage and prepare minority students for careers in biomedical research.

美国的生物医学研究正在迅速扩展；然而，少数群体仍然 在这部分劳动力中代表性不足，约占美国人口的 29%，但只接受 约 7% 的博士学位，仅约 4% 的 NIH RO1 拨款。许多少数民族学生缺乏早期教育 参与和发展技能和内容知识以完成学士学位课程的机会。 十多年来，杰斐逊州立社区学院 (JSCC) 和阿拉巴马大学在 伯明翰 (UAB) 合作开发了一项旨在弥合少数族裔的动态计划 JSCC 学生进入本科生和研究生生物医学和行为教育以及 职业生涯。我们目前的生物医学职业桥梁资助 (BBC) 预测 75% 的学生 将在 5 年内获得学士学位，35% 将进入生物医学研究生教育，35% 将 进入生物医学职业。 BBC 的 95 名学生中，98% 已经完成或目前正在 在 5 年或更短时间内完成生物医学/行为科学学士学位，100% 是少数族裔， 75% 正在就读（或正在申请）生物医学和行为研究生课程。这 剩下的 25% 正在攻读学士学位并从事研究工作。最大的挑战之一 BBC 的学生一直需要在学年期间工作来支付学费， 减少了他们进行研究的时间。新的 NIGMS B2B 计划 通过资助学生全年开展研究来应对这一挑战， 从大二的暑期研究实习开始。桥梁-UAB 利用更多的学生资助进一步提高学生的成功。它 将包括 JSCC 非常严格地招募新生，包括一项研究 研讨会和研究课程介绍以及发展其他 JSCC 和 UAB 合作伙伴关系 生物医学课程。 Bridges-UAB 将促进 JSCC 和 UAB 之间更密切的互动 研究和教育，并为 JSCC 和 UAB 的学生提供教育机会， 实习和指导将使他们沉浸在生物医学和行为研究中 并为他们的研究生涯做好准备。 Bridges-UAB 将提供奖学金给 涵盖大二和大三的费用，UAB 计划承担大部分高年级的费用，因此 为学生专注于学习和前沿研究铺平道路。上- 将鼓励水平学生成为新生的同伴导师，以及顶级 Bridges-UAB 学生将返回 JSCC，在研讨会和其他课程中展示他们的研究成果， 鼓励 JSCC 学生考虑研究职业。更广泛的影响将是 扩大生物医学研究队伍的多样性。智力优点将是识别 吸引少数族裔学生并为其从事生物医学研究职业做好准备的方法。