ESTEEMED Honors Research Training at UTSA

UTSA 的 ESTEEMED 荣誉研究培训

• 批准号: 9982326
• 负责人: Gail Patricia Taylor
• 金额: $ 26.47万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-23 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9982326
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The U.S. needs a strong, diverse workforce of PhD-level scientists and engineers to meet emerging challenges in healthcare. The long term goal of the UTSA ESTEEMED Program is to cultivate an exceptional cohort of minority, disadvantaged, or disabled freshmen students, currently underrepresented (UR) in the biosciences, to develop as scientists and leaders who rise to meet these emerging challenges. UTSA is an excellent recruiting and training ground for these future scientists, with a large UR population and laboratories that perform high quality biomedical research and embrace undergraduate (UG) researchers. UTSA also has a high-performing NIH-funded MARC U*STAR Honors Research Training Program, active since 1980, into which the ESTEEMED trainees can transition when they become juniors. The proposed ESTEEMED program requests 7 training positions in its first year and 14 thereafter, to maintain a balanced number of freshman and sophomore trainees. The trainees will be recruited from nine majors in the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering. We hypothesize that we can transform these incoming UR freshmen into future world-class scientists through accomplishment of the following Specific Aims: #1 support academic achievement; #2 support growth as a scientist and science communicator; #3 instruct trainees about career options and diverse fields, with a focus on biomedical computation; and #4 promote leadership development and address known barriers to UG and doctoral degree attainment in UR populations. The many activities designed to achieve these Aims will be introduced in a pre-Freshman Bridge Program, extend throughout all semesters of the freshman and sophomore years, and include two full-time summer research programs in consecutive summers, one at UTSA and the next at a nationally ranked university or medical center. The trainees will face challenges that continuously spur their personal and professional growth. For example, their immersion in research will progress from lab visits, to rotations, to research at UTSA, to research in a different institution in a new city. The success of the program will be measured in GPA outcomes; research presentations and publications; admission into MARC; degree completion; admission into doctoral training; and long term career outcomes, as well as qualitatively reported increases in confidence or integration into science culture. Unique program features include a UTSA-supported “extra” summer program, and early completion of the first semester of MARC training during this summer program, to better align the ESTEEMED and MARC training sequences. Also, with depression rampant in graduate student populations, ESTEEMED trainees will complete biofeedback training to improve their resistance to stress. Program outcomes will include: at least 95% of trainees will complete their degree, 50% will progress to the MARC and 75% of MARC matriculants will pursue a PhD; all second year students will present at several local and one national conference, and 40% will gain authorship by graduation. Program success will provide evidence for inclusion of additional freshman interventions on campus.

美国需要一支强大、多元化的博士级科学家和工程师队伍来应对新出现的挑战 UTSA ESTEEMED 计划的长期目标是培养一批杰出的人才。 目前在生物科学领域代表性不足 (UR) 的少数族裔、弱势群体或残疾新生 培养能够应对这些新兴挑战的科学家和领导者是一个很好的招聘机会。 以及这些未来科学家的培训基地，拥有大量的 UR 人口和高性能的实验室 优质的生物医学研究和拥抱本科生（UG）的研究人员。 NIH 资助的 MARC U*STAR 荣誉研究培训计划自 1980 年以来一直活跃，其中 ESTEEMED 受训者在成为初级学员时可以过渡。拟议的 ESTEEMED 计划要求进行 7 次培训。 第一年设立了 14 个职位，此后 14 个职位，以保持新生和新生学员数量的平衡。 学员将来自生物、化学、物理、心理学、 我们勇敢地相信我们可以将这些即将入学的UR新生转变为未来。 通过实现以下具体目标培养世界一流的科学家： #1 支持学术成就； #2 支持作为科学家和科学传播者的成长；#3 指导学员职业选择和多样化 领域，重点是生物医学计算；#4 促进领导力发展并解决已知问题 UR 人群获得 UG 和博士学位的障碍 旨在实现这些目标的许多活动。 目标将在新生前桥梁课程中引入，并延伸到新生的所有学期 和大二年级，并包括连续夏季的两个全日制暑期研究项目，其中一个在 UTSA 以及全国排名大学或医疗中心的学员将面临以下挑战。 不断刺激他们的个人和职业成长，例如，他们对研究的投入将会不断进步。 从实验室访问到轮换，到 UTSA 的研究，再到在新城市的不同机构进行研究。 该项目的成绩将通过研究报告和出版物的录取来衡量； MARC；完成学位；进入博士培训；以及长期职业成果 定性报告的信心增加或融入科学文化的独特项目特征包括。 UTSA 支持的“额外”暑期项目，以及提前完成 MARC 培训第一学期 这个夏季计划，旨在更好地协调 ESTEEMED 和 MARC 培训序列以及抑郁症。 研究生群体中大量存在，ESTEEMED 学员将完成生物反馈培训以提高 他们对压力的抵抗力包括： 至少 95% 的学员将完成学位， 50% 将升读 MARC，75% 的 MARC 学生将攻读博士学位，所有二年级学生将攻读博士学位； 参加多个地方会议和一次全国会议，40%将获得毕业项目授权。 成功将为在校园内纳入额外的新生干预措施提供证据。