Strides Toward Encouraging Professions In Science

朝着鼓励科学职业的方向迈进

• 批准号: 7209794
• 负责人: ROSEMARIE DePoy WALKER
• 金额: $ 18.76万
• 依托单位: METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7209794
• 关键词: Strides; Toward; Encouraging; Professions; Science

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Strides Toward Encouraging Professions in Science (STEPS) is a collaborative effort by Community College of Denver (CCD), Community College of Aurora (CCA) and Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD) with assistance from the Graduate School of the University of Colorado Health Science Center (UCHSC). The goals of the STEPS program are 1) to increase the number of community college students, from historically under-represented minorities (URM) in biomedical research, who declare majors that are likely to lead to careers in biomedical research 2) to increase the number of URM community college students, who complete the AS degree and transfer to a 4 yr college, preferably MSCD. 3) to increase the number of URM college students who complete the BS degree and go on to pursue a graduate degree, preferably at UCHSC. While this third goal is not strictly supported by the NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate program, it is certainly the ultimately goal of the Bridges to the Future Initiatives and always in the minds of our program staff. Students in the STEPS program are supported academically primarily through tutoring, while being exposed to extracurricular enrichment activities designed to introduce them to the culture of the biomedical research community. The students participate in a scientific literacy seminar aka "The Journal Club" where they learn to read and discuss primary literature. The students must participate in the Introduction to Biomedical Research Seminar to master a variety of skills that will be useful to them in their internships. Depending on each student's interest and ability, they will either be placed with a research group at UCHSC or will work with a MSCD, CCD or CCA professor on the Aurora or Lowry campus for a 160 to 320 hr internship. Travel to scientific conferences is supported both for students early in their participation in the program, again so they may become accustomed to the culture of research scientists, and later so that they may have the experience of sharing the research they have done during their internship in the form of a poster presentation. STEPS alumni have made significant contributions in the research labs they've worked and future students will do the same, hopefully some will make contributions of their own in the future in their own research groups.

描述（由申请人提供）：“迈向鼓励科学职业”(STEPS) 是丹佛社区学院 (CCD)、奥罗拉社区学院 (CCA) 和丹佛大都会州立学院 (MSCD) 在研究生协助下共同努力的结果科罗拉多大学健康科学中心 (UCHSC) 学院。 STEPS 计划的目标是 1) 增加社区学院学生的数量，这些学生来自生物医学研究领域历史上代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM)，他们申报的专业可能会导致生物医​​学研究职业生涯 2) 增加社区学院学生的数量完成 AS 学位并转入四年制大学（最好是 MSCD）的 URM 社区学院学生。 3) 增加完成学士学位并继续攻读研究生学位（最好是在 UHSC）的 URM 大学生数量。虽然第三个目标并未得到美国国立卫生研究院“通往学士学位桥梁”计划的严格支持，但它无疑是“通往未来桥梁”计划的最终目标，并且始终铭记在我们的计划工作人员心中。 STEPS 项目的学生主要通过辅导获得学术支持，同时参加旨在向他们介绍生物医学研究社区文化的课外丰富活动。学生们参加一个被称为“期刊俱乐部”的科学素养研讨会，在那里他们学习阅读和讨论原始文献。学生必须参加生物医学研究概论研讨会，以掌握对他们实习有用的各种技能。根据每个学生的兴趣和能力，他们将被分配到 UHSC 的研究小组，或者与 Aurora 或 Lowry 校区的 MSCD、CCD 或 CCA 教授一起进行 160 至 320 小时的实习。学生在参与该项目的早期就可以参加科学会议，这样他们就可以习惯研究科学家的文化，之后也可以有机会分享他们在实习期间所做的研究。海报展示的形式。 STEPS 校友在他们工作过的研究实验室中做出了重大贡献，未来的学生也会做同样的事情，希望一些人将来能在自己的研究小组中做出自己的贡献。