MBRS RISE Program at California State University, Fresno

加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校 MBRS RISE 项目

• 批准号: 7103537
• 负责人: ALEJANDRO CALDERON-URREA
• 金额: $ 32.86万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FRESNO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-08-01 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7103537
• 关键词: culture; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; ethnic group; health science research potential; health science research support; minority health professional; science education

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University Fresno, a designated Hispanic serving institution, is located in California's agricultural Central Valley, isolated from all major research institutions. While our record of graduating minority students with a bachelor's degree is excellent, few of our science minority students continue to graduate programs (about 1/yr). A survey of our students in several fundamental science classes revealed the main reasons to be: unaware of research careers (30%); ignorant of how to pursue a research career (77%); and unaware of research opportunities on our campus (60%). Hence, our university has a tremendous potential to initiate members of underrepresented minorities in careers on biomedical and behavioral sciences. Our student surveys and focus group discussions, conducted over the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003 semester, have pointed to a lack of research culture in the sciences, and the lack of a systematic guidance through the process to enter a biomedical research career. The RISE program in this proposal will remedy this by taking a holistic approach to creating a scientific research culture in our campus. The program will engage our most prominent faculty in "planting" the seed of interest for biomedical research early on in our students' careers (the Pre-Research component), while providing research opportunities for 20 undergraduate and 12 graduate, interested and qualified minority students (the Pathway to Success and Research Experience components). These research opportunities, not currently available at our university, will include: bringing prominent research scientists on campus to discuss their research and informally interact with our students; offering a select group of students interested in biomedical or behavioral research an intensive two-year experience to develop their research interests and skills and to guide them through the Ph.D. application process. The RISE Program would be an exceptionally valuable and unique component to meet research education objectives for science majors and will increase the number of minority students pursuing higher degrees in biomedical or behavioral fields. The success of the RISE program will be measured with a comprehensive evaluation plan which includes formative, summative, process, and outcomes (measurement of the achievement of the objectives) components. California State University, Fresno has had a successful SCORE program since 2000, contributing to our ability to offer quality research opportunities to our students.

描述（申请人提供）：加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校是一所指定的西班牙裔服务机构，位于加州农业中央山谷，与所有主要研究机构隔离。虽然我们的少数族裔学生毕业并获得学士学位的记录非常出色，但我们的科学少数族裔学生中很少有人继续毕业（大约每年 1 人）。对我们几个基础科学课程学生的调查显示，主要原因是：不了解研究职业（30%）；不知道如何从事研究事业（77%）；并且不知道我们校园的研究机会（60%）。因此，我们的大学具有巨大的潜力，可以帮助代表性不足的少数族裔成员从事生物医学和行为科学的职业。我们在 2002 年秋季和 2003 年春季学期进行的学生调查和焦点小组讨论表明，科学领域缺乏研究文化，并且在进入生物医学研究职业的过程中缺乏系统的指导。本提案中的 RISE 计划将通过采取整体方法在我们的校园中创建科学研究文化来解决这个问题。该计划将让我们最杰出的教师在学生职业生涯的早期“播下”生物医学研究兴趣的种子（预研究部分），同时为 20 名本科生和 12 名研究生、感兴趣且合格的少数族裔学生提供研究机会（成功之路和研究经验组成部分）。这些研究机会目前在我们大学还没有提供，包括： 邀请杰出的研究科学家到校园讨论他们的研究并与我们的学生进行非正式互动；为一组对生物医学或行为研究感兴趣的学生提供为期两年的密集体验，以培养他们的研究兴趣和技能，并指导他们完成博士学位。申请过程。 RISE 计划将是实现科学专业研究教育目标的一个非常有价值和独特的组成部分，并将增加在生物医学或行为领域攻读更高学位的少数族裔学生的数量。 RISE 计划的成功将通过综合评估计划来衡量，其中包括形成性、总结性、过程和结果（衡量目标实现情况）组成部分。加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校自 2000 年以来一直成功开展 SCORE 计划，有助于我们为学生提供优质研究机会。