UAB Blazer BRAIN (Broadening Representation And Inclusion in Neuroscience) Summer Program

UAB Blazer BRAIN（扩大神经科学的代表性和包容性）暑期项目

• 批准号: 10595055
• 负责人: Cristin F Gavin
• 金额: $ 8.69万
• 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: 2022-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10595055
• 关键词: Academic support; Acceleration; Administrator; Admission activity; Advisory Committees; Advocacy; Affect; African American; Alabama; Biomedical Research; Black race; Brain Diseases; Career Choice; Communication; Communities; Dedications; Development; Disabled Persons; Discipline; Diverse Workforce; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor' s Degree; Education; Educational process of instructing; Enrollment; Environment; Equity; Evaluation; Exposure to; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Future; Goals; Graduate Education; Grant; Hispanic; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Infrastructure; Institution; Interview; Investments; Laboratories; Latino Population; Leadership; Learning; Location; Mentors; Mentorship; Minority Groups; Mission; Modeling; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Population Heterogeneity; Positioning Attribute; Postdoctoral Fellow; Process; Readiness; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Scholars Program; Science; Scientist; Secure; Services; Social support; Societies; Southeastern United States; Strategic Planning; Structure; Students; Talents; Training; Training Support; Underrepresented Minority; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Woman; career; career life balance; design; disability; disabled students; disadvantaged background; diversity and inclusion; equity, diversity, and inclusion; experience; faculty mentor; faculty research; faculty support; forging; graduate school; graduate student; improved; interest; matriculation; medical schools; meetings; nervous system disorder; peer; peer coaching; programs; recruit; research faculty; skills; student mentoring; success; summer program; summer research; symposium; undergraduate student

PROJECT ABSTRACT We seek NINDS R25 funding for the Blazer BRAIN (Broadening Representation And Inclusion in Neuroscience) Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Although the number of U.S. citizens from underrepresented minority (URM) groups earning doctoral degrees in science has increased over the past decade, URMs continue to represent a small proportion of the scientists in the United States. Our UAB Blazer BRAIN Program is a summer research experience that targets the obstacles impeding success with the goal of increasing the number of trainees from diverse backgrounds in neuroscience research. We will recruit talented undergraduates from our five partner HBCU institutions in AL, and nationally with a focus on the southeast region. We aim to expose Blazer BRAIN undergraduate Scholars to research on the healthy nervous system and neurological disease at UAB in laboratories of our federally funded faculty mentors. With continued investment in Neuroscience at UAB by the School of Medicine and the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, the future of the Blazer BRAIN program is secure, and Scholars will benefit from the vibrant neuroscience environment at UAB that currently exceeds $60M in NIH funding, with approximately $24M of that from NINDS. The Blazer BRAIN Program will include career advising by the Program directors and research faculty mentors. In addition, the Blazer BRAIN Program will partner with the NIH R25-funded UAB Roadmap Scholars (RMS) Program, which also aims to promote diversity in neuroscience research but at the graduate level, by matching Blazer BRAIN Scholars with RMS Aspirational Mentors (RAMs), to allow our Scholars to “see themselves” as scientists in biomedical research careers. Blazer BRAIN Scholars will also be invited to attend the RMS NEURAL conference, held every summer at UAB. Other value-added components of the Blazer BRAIN Program include learning from their mentors about careers and work life balance as a neuroscientist at a major biomedical research university; improvement of scientific communication skills; opportunities to present research at a regional (UAB Summer Research EXPO) and national (ABRCMS, SACNAS or SfN) meeting; and assistance in preparing applications for graduate school. Our primary goal for the initial funding period is to demonstrate minimum 60% acceptance rate of Blazer BRAIN Scholars to PhD Programs. A rigorous evaluation plan is place with metrics designed to achieve this success, with input to be received from Blazer BRAIN Scholars, mentors, and internal and external advisory committees. If successful, the UAB Blazer BRAIN Program will increase diversity in neuroscience research, and in turn promote the development of a richly diverse workforce in the biomedical sciences.

项目摘要 我们为开拓者的大脑寻求Ninds R25资金（扩大了神经科学的代表性和包容性） 在阿拉巴马大学伯明翰（UAB）的计划。虽然来自 过去代表性不足的少数民族（URM）群体在科学学位上获得了博士学位，过去有所增加 十年，URMS继续代表了美国的一小部分科学家。我们的UAB西装外套 大脑计划是夏季研究经验，其目标是阻碍成功的障碍 在神经科学研究中增加了潜水员背景的受训者的数量。我们将招募才华横溢 来自阿拉巴马州的五个合作伙伴HBCU机构的本科生，在全国范围内关注东南部 地区。我们旨在使开拓者大脑本科学者对健康神经系统进行研究 在我们联邦资助的教师导师的实验室中，UAB的神经疾病。继续 医学院和综合神经科学中心对UAB的神经科学投资， 西装外套大脑计划的未来是安全的，学者将从充满活力的神经科学中受益 UAB的环境目前超过6000万美元的NIH资金，其中约有2400万美元来自Ninds。 开拓者大脑计划将包括计划主管和研究教师导师的职业咨询。 此外，西装外套计划还将与NIH R25资助的UAB路线图学者（RMS）合作 计划还旨在通过匹配来促进神经科学研究的多样性，但在研究生层面 开拓者的大脑学者与RMS有抱负的导师（RAMS），使我们的学者“将自己视为” 生物医学研究职业的科学家。开拓者脑学者也将被邀请参加RMS神经 会议，每年夏天在UAB举行。西装外套大脑计划的其他增值组件包括 向他们的导师学习职业和工作生活，在主要生物医学上作为神经科学家 研究大学；提高科学沟通技巧；有机会在 区域（UAB夏季研究博览会）和国家（ABRCMS，SACNAS或SFN）会议；和协助 为研究生院准备申请。我们最初资助期的主要目标是证明 开拓者脑学者对博士学位课程的最低接受率至少60％。严格的评估计划是 旨在实现这一成功的指标，并将获得开拓者脑学者，导师， 以及内部和外部咨询委员会。如果成功，UAB开拓者的大脑计划将增加 神经科学研究的多样性，进而促进了一支多样化的劳动力的发展 生物医学科学。