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）

基本信息

批准号：
10229353
负责人：
Sudha Krishnamurthy
金额：
$ 6.95万
依托单位：
J. DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2014
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2014-04-01 至 2024-03-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10229353
关键词：
Academy Achievement Address Age Americas Area Bachelor&apos s Degree Biomedical Research Biotechnology Books California Chemicals Chemistry Communication Communities Continuing Education Department chair Department of Defense Development Educational Activities Educational workshop Engineering Enrollment Environment Evaluation Exposure to Faculty Funding Future Goals Health Institutes Institution Internships Journals Knowledge Laboratories Learning Letters Marketing Mathematics Measures Mentors Minority Minority Enrollment Minority Participation Modeling Molecular Biology Motivation National Research Council Participant Phase Policies Population Positioning Attribute Postdoctoral Fellow Public Policy Publications Radial Recommendation Reporting Research Research Activity Research Project Grants Research Training Schools Science Scientist Secure Series Student recruitment Students Talents Technology Time Training Training Programs Underrepresented Minority Underrepresented Populations United States United States National Institutes of Health Universities Vocational Guidance Washington Woman Work Writing Youth career career preparation college community college disadvantaged student education research educationally disadvantaged experience follow-up graduate student higher education improved indexing interest lectures medin meetings minority health minority student posters programs psychologic response science and society skills success summer research symposium undergraduate student university student

项目摘要

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The goal of our program, Promoting Underrepresented Minority Advancement in the Sciences (PUMAS), is to increase the number of well-trained minority biomedical research scientists. We do this by providing eight summer research opportunities for community college students from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. When Under-Represented Minority (URM) students gain first-hand experience in a state-of-the-art lab such as Gladstone, they are more prepared to major in the sciences when they transfer to a 4-year institution. This then increases the number of URM's who apply for graduate school and diversifies biomedical research. The PUMAS program recruits' students who are currently enrolled in a community college, have successfully completed at least two semesters of college-level science courses with a lab component (chemistry and molecular biology preferred, but not required), and who intend to transfer to a 4-year institution to pursue a baccalaureate degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). We target our marketing of the PUMAS program to 23 community colleges within a 60-mile radius of our institution. Mainly marketing to science department chairs and transfer centers at our target campuses, but also to Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) directors in Northern California. MESA is a program created to develop California's future STEM workforce that supports students to successfully transfer to 4-year universities in STEM majors. We chose to focus on community college students because this population is often overlooked and has the highest percentage of minority enrollment across institutes of higher education in our state. For 9-weeks each summer, the PUMAS participants are paired with a scientific mentor at Gladstone to work on a specific research project. They spend 75% of their time doing biomedical research, including independent research activities, receiving one-on-one mentoring, attending laboratory meetings, scientific lectures, seminars and journal clubs. They spend 25% of their time participating in supplementary educational activities, which include a week-long biotech boot-camp and a series of professional development workshops geared to inspire educationally disadvantaged students to persist through undergraduate and graduate school in the sciences. The PUMAS program culminates with a poster session in which students describe their work, hypothesis and findings to the scientific community at Gladstone.

项目概要/摘要我们的计划“促进代表性不足的少数族裔在科学领域的进步”(PUMAS) 的目标是增加训练有素的少数族裔生物医学研究科学家的数量。我们通过提供八个为传统背景的社区学院学生提供暑期研究机会在科学领域代表性不足。当代表性不足的少数族裔 (URM) 学生获得第一手资料时拥有在格拉德斯通等最先进实验室的经验，他们更愿意在以下情况下主修科学：他们转入四年制院校。这会增加申请研究生院的 URM 数量并使生物医学研究多样化。 PUMAS 计划招收目前在社区大学就读的学生，成功完成至少两个学期的带有实验室部分的大学水平科学课程（化学和分子生物学优先，但不是必需），并且打算转学到四年制机构攻读科学、技术、工程或数学 (STEM) 学士学位。我们的目标是向我们机构 60 英里半径内的 23 所社区大学推销 PUMAS 计划。主要是向我们目标校园的科学系主任和转学中心进行营销，还向数学、北加州工程、科学成就 (MESA) 主任。 MESA 是一个旨在培养加州未来的 STEM 劳动力，支持学生成功转入四年制 STEM专业的大学。我们选择关注社区学院的学生，因为这个群体经常被忽视，并且在各高等教育机构中少数族裔入学率最高我们的国家。每年夏天，PUMAS 参与者都会与格拉德斯通的一位科学导师配对，为期 9 周从事特定的研究项目。他们花费 75% 的时间进行生物医学研究，包括独立研究活动，接受一对一指导，参加实验室会议，科学讲座、研讨会和期刊俱乐部。他们花 25% 的时间参加补充教育活动，其中包括为期一周的生物技术训练营和一系列专业发展研讨会旨在激励教育弱势学生坚持完成本科和研究生学业在科学领域。 PUMAS 项目以海报会议结束，学生们在其中描述他们的工作，向格拉德斯通科学界提出的假设和发现。