Promoting Underrepresented Minority Advancement in the Sciences (PUMAS)

促进代表性不足的少数族裔在科学领域的进步（PUMAS）

• 批准号: 9041012
• 负责人: Melanie Maria Ott
• 金额: $ 5.88万
• 依托单位: J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-01 至 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9041012
• 关键词: Area; Bachelor' s Degree; Biomedical Research; Biotechnology; California; Communication; Communities; Development; Educational Activities; Educational workshop; Fellowship; Future; Goals; High School Student; Institution; Internships; Journals; Laboratories; Life; Mentors; Minority; Minority Graduate Student; Mission; Participant; Population; Public Speaking; Recruitment Activity; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; San Francisco; Schools; Science; Scientist; Secure; Series; Students; Time; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Work; abstracting; career; college; community college; experience; follow-up; high school; improved; lectures; mathematical sciences; meetings; posters; programs; responsible research conduct; skills; summer research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Gladstone seeks to increase diversity in biomedical research by providing eight summer research opportunities for undergraduate students from groups that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. Our program, Promoting Underrepresented Minority Advancement in the Sciences (PUMAS) aims 1) to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who receive baccalaureate degrees in science and 2) expand and diversify the future graduate school student population. Our ultimate goal is to increase the number of well-trained URM biomedical research scientists. The PUMAS program will recruit two types of undergraduates. First, we will recruit students attending 4-year colleges and universities from our Gladstone Summer Scholars (GSS) high school internship program. GSS students have already experienced one summer experience working in Gladstone laboratories; therefore PUMAS will reengage these already targeted URM students who have completed their first year of undergraduate work to pursue their passion for biomedical research. Second, we will recruit students attending community college who intend to transfer to a 4-year university. We will partner with the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), Transfer Alliance Project (TAP) to identify URM students at community colleges in the San Francisco/Bay Area. We will seek students who have completed most of their math and science requirements and are looking to transfer to a science program at a 4-year school. For eight weeks, PUMAS participants will be paired with a scientific mentor at Gladstone to work on a specific research project. They will spend 80% of their time conducting biomedical research, including independent research activities, one-on-one mentoring, laboratory meetings, scientific lectures, seminars, journal clubs, and other academic and professional development activities. They will spend 20% of their time participating in supplementary educational activities. This includes weekly workshops on topics such as preparing graduate school applications, primer on grad school life, and a series of public speaking practice sessions geared towards improving student's scientific communication skills. PUMAS students will also participate in a 20-hr Laboratory Skills Bootcamp and a three-class series on the responsible conduct of research. The PUMAS program will culminate with a poster session in which students describe their work, hypothesis and results to the scientific community at Gladstone and UCSF. A student's passion for a scientific career must be cultivated both during and after a laboratory internship experience. Thus, Gladstone will continue to engage students in a variety of follow-up activities, such as securing a successive summer research experience at Gladstone or at other institutions and assisting students with applications for competitive fellowships in both college and graduate school. Ultimately, the aim is to increase the number of URM students pursuing biomedical research as a career. (End of Abstract)

描述（由申请人提供）：Gladstone寻求通过为来自科学中传统人数不足的小组的本科生提供八个夏季研究机会来增加生物医学研究的多样性。我们的计划促进了科学（PUMA）的代表性不足的少数群体的进步1）旨在增加获得科学学士学位的人数不足的少数民族（URM）学生的数量，并扩大和多样化未来研究生院的学生人数。我们的最终目标是增加训练有素的URM生物医学研究科学家的数量。 PUMAS计划将招募两种类型的本科生。首先，我们将从我们的Gladstone Summer Scholars（GSS）高中实习计划中招募参加4年大学和大学的学生。 GSS学生已经经历了在Gladstone实验室工作的一个夏季经验。因此，PUMA将重新接触这些已经有针对性的URM学生，他们已经完成了本科工作的第一年，以追求对生物医学研究的热情。其次，我们将招募打算转学到4年大学的社区学院的学生。我们将与加州大学伯克利分校（UCB），转会联盟项目（TAP）合作，以识别旧金山/湾区社区学院的URM学生。我们将寻求完成大部分数学和科学要求的学生，并希望转入一所4年学校的科学课程。在八个星期内，PUMAS参与者将与Gladstone的科学导师配对，从事特定的研究项目。他们将花80％的时间进行生物医学研究，包括独立的研究活动，一对一的指导，实验室会议，科学讲座，研讨会，期刊俱乐部以及其他学术和专业发展活动。他们将花费20％的时间参加补充教育活动。这包括有关主题的每周研讨会，例如准备研究生院申请，研究生院生的入门以及一系列旨在提高学生的科学沟通技巧的公开演讲实践课程。 PUMAS的学生还将参加20小时的实验室技能训练营和有关负责任的研究的三级系列。 PUMAS计划将以海报会议达到顶峰，在该课程中，学生将向Gladstone和UCSF的科学界描述他们的工作，假设和结果。在实验室实习经验期间和之后，必须培养学生对科学职业的热情。因此，格拉德斯通（Gladstone）将继续吸引学生参加各种后续活动，例如在Gladstone或其他机构获得连续的夏季研究经验，并协助学生在大学和研究生院的竞争奖学金申请。最终，目的是增加从事生物医学研究作为职业的URM学生的数量。 （抽象的结尾）