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: 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
• 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
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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.

项目摘要 /摘要 我们计划的目标是促进科学（PUMA）中代表性不足的少数群体的进步 增加训练有素的少数族裔生物医学研究科学家的数量。我们通过提供八个来做到这一点 来自传统上的背景的社区大学生的夏季研究机会 在科学中的代表性不足。当代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生获得第一手 在诸如Gladstone之类的最先进的实验室的经验，他们更准备在科学领域进行专业的准备 他们转移到4年的机构。这增加了申请研究生院的URM的数量 并多样化生物医学研究。 PUMAS计划招募目前正在参加社区大学的学生 成功完成了至少两个学期的大学科学课程，并通过实验室组成 （化学和分子生物学优先但不需要），并打算转移到4年的机构 攻读科学，技术，工程或数学学士学位（STEM）。我们针对我们的 在我们机构60英里的半径内，PUMA计划的营销向23所社区大学进行营销。主要是 在我们的目标校园中向科学系主席和转移中心进行营销，也向数学推销 北加州的工程学，科学成就（MESA）导演。 MESA是创建的程序 发展加利福尼亚的未来STEM劳动力，该劳动力支持学生成功转移到4年 STEM专业的大学。我们选择专注于社区大学生，因为这个人口是 经常被忽视，并且在高等教育学院的少数群体入学率最高 我们的国家。 每年夏天为9周，PUMAS参与者与Gladstone的科学导师配对 在特定的研究项目中工作。他们花了75％的时间进行生物医学研究，包括 独立的研究活动，接受一对一的指导，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启动训练营和一系列专业发展研讨会 旨在激发教育不利的学生通过本科生和研究生院继续 在科学中。 PUMAS计划最终以海报会议形容他们的作品， 格拉德斯通科学界的假设和发现。