ENHANCING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AT SPELMAN COLLEGE

加强斯佩尔曼学院的生物医学研究

• 批准号: 6038993
• 负责人: MICHAEL E MCGINNIS
• 金额: $ 41.41万
• 依托单位: SPELMAN COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-01 至 2004-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6038993
• 关键词: African American; biotechnology; career; computer assisted instruction; female; health science profession; health science research; informatics; interactive multimedia; minority health professional; minority institution research support; postgraduate education; role model; science education; training aid; university student

Spelman College has a reputation as one of the leading educators of African American women in the sciences, and is designated by the National Science Foundation as a Model Institution for Excellence in undergraduate mathematics and science education. On average, 34 percent of Spelman women major in the natural sciences, and mathematics; 30 percent of the annual graduating class are awarded degrees in these disciplines; and since 1988, Spelman has witnessed a 57 percent increase in the number of science majors pursuing doctoral degrees. Coupled with student success, Spelman faculty in the sciences are active researchers and administer grants that not only help to advance scholarship in their respective disciplines, but also provide students with vital research training experiences for graduate study. The long-term goal of this project is to encourage and enable Spelman students to choose biomedical research as a career goal. The overall purpose is to significantly increase the number of African American women contributing to the nations biomedical research enterprise. To significantly increase the number of Spelman students who choose biomedical research as a career, we are striving to create an enabling "research culture" on campus. A guiding principle of this project is that students need to be involved in research activities early in, and as a continuing part of, their undergraduate training, and that they need faculty mentors in these research activities. As the biomedical faculty at Spelman develop their own research programs through other mechanisms, we are developing parallel strategies to enable them to continue significant mentoring activities. Our proposed strategy is to hire key personnel to help develop faculty and student capabilities for biomedical research. To these ends, three goals have been established for the proposed RISE program. These are: 1. To increase student awareness of and interest in biomedical research early in their academic careers, and provide a "research culture" that fosters this interest. 2. To develop the ability of biomedical research faculty and students to incorporate modern computer and information technology into their research and teaching activities. 3. To develop the routine use of modern biomedical research techniques by faculty and students at Spelman College. A series of eight linked developmental activities has been proposed that will lead a student from her initial curiosity about research, through a structured training program, to independent research, and GRE preparation. We believe this structured process will significantly increase the number of Spelman women who pursue a career in biomedical research.

斯佩尔曼学院（Spelman College）在科学中是非洲裔美国妇女的主要教育者之一，并被国家科学基金会（National Science Foundation）指定为本科数学和科学教育卓越的典范机构。平均而言，自然科学和数学专业的Spelman女性中有34％；在这些学科中，年度毕业班的30％是学位；自1988年以来，斯佩尔曼（Spelman）目睹了攻读博士学位的科学专业人数增加了57％。 加上学生的成功，科学的斯佩尔曼教职员工是活跃的研究人员，并管理赠款，不仅有助于提高各自学科的奖学金，而且还为学生提供了研究生学习的重要研究培训经验。 该项目的长期目标是鼓励和使Spelman学生选择生物医学研究作为职业目标。 总体目的是显着增加为国家生物医学研究企业贡献的非洲裔美国妇女的数量。 为了显着增加选择生物医学研究作为职业的Spelman学生的数量，我们正在努力在校园内创建一种“研究文化”。该项目的指导原则是，学生需要早期参与研究活动，作为他们的本科培训的一部分，并且他们需要在这些研究活动中的教师导师。 随着Spelman的生物医学教师通过其他机制制定自己的研究计划，我们正在制定平行的策略，使他们能够继续进行大量的指导活动。 我们提出的策略是聘请关键人员来帮助发展生物医学研究的教师和学生能力。 为此，为拟议的崛起计划建立了三个目标。这些是：1。提高学生对生物医学研究的学术研究的认识和兴趣，并提供一种促进这一兴趣的“研究文化”。 2。发​​展生物医学研究教师和学生将现代计算机和信息技术纳入其研究和教学活动的能力。 3。要开发Spelman College教师和学生对现代生物医学研究技术的常规使用。已经提出了一系列连接的发展活动，这将使一名学生对研究的最初好奇心，通过结构化培训计划，独立研究和GRE准备。 我们认为，这一结构化过程将大大增加从事生物医学研究职业的Spelman妇女的数量。