UAB PREP Scholars Program

UAB PREP 学者计划

• 批准号: 8051822
• 负责人: JEFFREY ALLEN ENGLER
• 金额: $ 31.16万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8051822
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a comprehensive research university and medical complex with $192 million of NIH-funded research. UAB has a strong commitment to training undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented minorities and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. UAB has established and supported several programs to help these students meet their educational and career goals. What UAB currently lacks is a means to provide opportunity to potential graduate students who make a decision to pursue doctoral education late in their undergraduate career. These students may have already attained their baccalaureate degrees, but do not have the credentials for entry into top biomedical graduate programs where prior research experience and high standardized test scores are essential criteria for admittance. We have identified several potential pools from which to recruit such students: 1) Minority students who apply to one of our biomedical doctoral programs, but who are not offered admission due to low GRE scores or no research experience (about 30 per year) 2) Alabama undergraduate students who participate in programs aimed at STEM disciplines (Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation students; 700-800 per year) 3) Graduates in Chemistry and Biology from institutions throughout Alabama. Our proposed PREP program will provide opportunities to those students who need to strengthen their credentials for entry into doctoral education. Our overall goal is to recruit 10 students per year and to provide them a high quality research experience in the laboratories of NIH-funded mentors and academic enrichment opportunities to equip them to be competitive for entry into biomedical graduate programs at top NIH-funded institutions. The students will work with mentors to develop a demanding research project that will lead to at least one publication; 80% or more of each student's time will be devoted to completing this research project. An individual development plan (IDP) will also be designed for each student, to address any academic weaknesses that might affect success in future graduate attainment. The IDP will also provide activities to strengthen writing and quantitative skills, provide career information, develop presentation skills, discuss research ethics, and network with peers at scientific meetings. Student progress toward meeting the goals of their IDP will be monitored quarterly. We expect that establishing a PREP Scholars program at UAB will increase the number of minority applicants who are well prepared for entry into top doctoral programs across the US. To build a diverse work force, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will identify and prepare 10 students from groups underrepresented in biomedical research for a series of training and academic experiences to prepare them for entry into top doctoral graduate programs in the U.S. These students who will already have earned a baccalaureate degree will be paired with NIH-funded faculty members at UAB who will mentor these trainees and provide high quality research experiences in biomedical sciences. Individual development plans will be tailored to each student's needs, to identify specific activities to prepare them for success in doctoral study, including academic enrichment, scientific writing, quantitative skills development, presentation skills, ethics in research, career mentoring, and quarterly assessment of progress.

描述（由申请人提供）：阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校 (UAB) 是一所综合性研究型大学和医疗综合体，拥有 1.92 亿美元的 NIH 资助研究。 UAB 坚定致力于培养来自不同背景的本科生和研究生，包括代表性不足的少数族裔和来自弱势背景的学生。阿拉巴马大学建立并支持多项计划来帮助这些学生实现他们的教育和职业目标。阿拉巴马大学目前缺乏的是为那些在本科生涯后期决定攻读博士学位的潜在研究生提供机会的方法。这些学生可能已经获得了学士学位，但不具备进入顶尖生物医学研究生课程的资格，在这些课程中，先前的研究经验和高标准化考试成绩是入学的基本标准。我们已经确定了几个潜在的招收此类学生的群体： 1) 申请我们的生物医学博士课程之一，但由于 GRE 分数低或没有研究经验而未被录取的少数族裔学生（每年约 30 名）2)参加 STEM 学科项目的阿拉巴马州本科生（阿拉巴马州路易斯斯托克斯少数族裔参与学生联盟；每年 700-800 名） 3) 阿拉巴马州化学和生物学专业的毕业生阿拉巴马州各地的机构。我们提出的 PREP 计划将为那些需要加强其进入博士教育的资格的学生提供机会。我们的总体目标是每年招收 10 名学生，并为他们在 NIH 资助的导师实验室中提供高质量的研究经验和学术充实机会，使他们在进入 NIH 资助的顶尖机构的生物医学研究生项目时具有竞争力。学生将与导师合作开发一个要求很高的研究项目，该项目将导致至少一篇出版物；每个学生80%或更多的时间将用于完成这个研究项目。还将为每个学生设计个人发展计划（IDP），以解决可能影响未来研究生学业成功的任何学术弱点。 IDP 还将提供加强写作和定量技能、提供职业信息、培养演讲技巧、讨论研究伦理以及在科学会议上与同行建立联系的活动。我们将每季度对学生实现 IDP 目标的进度进行监控。我们预计，在 UAB 建立 PREP 学者计划将增加为进入美国顶尖博士课程做好充分准备的少数族裔申请人的数量。 为了建立一支多元化的劳动力队伍，阿拉巴马大学伯明翰分校 (UAB) 将从生物医学研究领域代表性不足的群体中甄选 10 名学生，并为他们提供一系列培训和学术经验，为他们进入美国顶尖博士研究生课程做好准备。已经获得学士学位的学生将与 NIH 资助的 UAB 教职人员配对，他们将指导这些学员并提供高质量的生物医学研究经验。个人发展计划将根据每个学生的需求量身定制，以确定为他们在博士学习中取得成功做好准备的具体活动，包括学术充实、科学写作、定量技能发展、演讲技巧、研究道德、职业指导和季度进展评估。