RISE at UVI: Building Students’ Identities as Scientists

UVI 的 RISE：培养学生科学家的身份

• 批准号: 9489472
• 负责人: TERESA ANN TURNER
• 金额: $ 27.29万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-06-01 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9489472
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The University of the Virgin Islands, an undergraduate HBCU serving a unique population, proposes a continuously improving RISE program for students in all the relevant biomedical and behavioral disciplines across both the St. Thomas and St. Croix campuses. The program is designed to increase the diversity of biomedical researchers, which is essential to developing the creative research teams needed to make future ground breaking discoveries. The RISE Program will accomplish this with a sustained program designed to build students’ identities as scientists. New features in the program were developed as a result of evaluation. The specific aims are: Goal 1. The UVI RISE program will engage RISE students, build their intellectual capacity, and provide continuous support such that 100% of the RISE students graduate; 95% apply to pipeline programs in their senior year; 60% enroll in doctoral programs within 3 years of graduation. The baseline is 46% of graduates in the last funding cycle have matriculated into PhD programs. Goal 2. The UVI RISE program will have a magnifying effect producing institutional change that impacts all students in relevant departments such that the percentage of students enrolling in doctoral programs increases in all. Our goal for biology and chemistry is that the percentage of alumni going on to PhD programs will increase from 20% to 22%; for mathematics and applied mathematics an increase from 14% to 16%; for computer science an increase from 10% to 12%. The measurable objectives are that the RISE program will: (1) provide students with a rigorous RISE curriculum including new skills development courses, (2) provide research education opportunities both through extramural summer experiences and academic year research classrooms, (3) develop strong, innovative partnerships with labs at research-intensive institutions, (4) provide students with support and mentoring such that they see a clearly articulated career pathway for admission to selective research universities and a structure for success, (5) provide the mentoring and inspiration to excel such that at least one RISE student each year will apply to and be competitive for the MARC program, (6) increase the number of UVI students accepted into competitive mainland summer research programs, (7) increase grades of STEM majors through an innovative utility value intervention. The objectives will be accomplished with a program that builds on past success and includes new courses, extramural research, presentations at conferences, visiting scientists, workshops, journal clubs, and a network of support for students including Individual Development Plans. The RISE program will be carefully evaluated following a comprehensive evaluation plan and be improved based on the results of evaluation. The program will substantially increase UVI’s ability to prepare students for careers in biomedical research.

维尔京群岛大学是一所服务于独特人群的本科 HBCU，提出了 不断改进所有相关生物医学和行为学科学生的 RISE 计划 该计划旨在增加圣托马斯和圣克罗伊校区的多样性。 生物医学研究人员，这对于发展未来所需的创造性研究团队至关重要 RISE 计划将通过旨在实现这一目标的持续计划来实现这一目标。 评估的结果是建立学生科学家的身份。 具体目标是： 目标 1. UVI RISE 计划将吸引 RISE 学生，培养他们的智力 能力，并提供持续支持，使 100% 的 RISE 学生毕业，95% 申请到管道； 高年级的课程；60% 在毕业后 3 年内就读博士课程。 上一个资助周期中 46% 的毕业生被录取为博士课程 目标 2. UVI RISE。 该计划将产生放大效应，产生影响相关领域所有学生的制度变革 我们的目标是增加攻读博士课程的学生比例。 生物和化学的最大优势是，继续攻读博士学位的校友比例将从 20% 增加到 数学和应用数学从 14% 增加到 16%； 从 10% 增加到 12% RISE 计划的可衡量目标是：(1) 为学生提供服务。 拥有严格的 RISE 课程，包括新技能开发课程，(2) 提供研究教育 通过校外暑期体验和学年研究课堂获得的机会，(3) 与研究密集型机构的实验室建立强有力的创新合作伙伴关系，(4) 为学生提供 支持和指导，使他们看到一条清晰明确的职业道路，可以进入选择性大学 研究型大学和成功的结构，(5) 提供卓越的指导和灵感，以便 每年至少有一名 RISE 学生将申请 MARC 项目并具有竞争力，(6) 增加 被录取进入竞争性大陆暑期研究项目的UVI学生人数，(7) 提高成绩 通过创新的效用价值干预来实现 STEM 专业的目标。 项目以过去的成功为基础，包括新课程、校外研究、在 会议、访问科学家、研讨会、期刊俱乐部和学生支持网络，包括 个人发展计划将在全面评估后进行仔细评估。 评估计划并根据评估结果进行改进，方案将大幅增加。 UVI 能够帮助学生为生物医学研究职业做好准备。