Bridges to the Doctorate Program at Cal State LA

通往加州州立大学洛杉矶分校博士课程的桥梁

• 批准号: 10674862
• 负责人: LUIS M MOTA-BRAVO
• 金额: $ 111.57万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY LOS ANGELES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-08-01 至 2027-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10674862
• 关键词: bridge to the doctorate; programs

The under-participation of minority group members in the nation's biomedical research enterprise represents the loss of a large talent pool that has not been applied towards the solution of the Nation's many biomedical problems. As a partial solution to this situation, three institutions in the Los Angeles basin propose a collaborative Bridge to the Doctorate at Cal State LA (B2D@CSLA) program to increase the number of talented minority students in Ph.D. programs in the biomedical sciences. This will be done by increasing the transfer of minority students from strong MS programs at a minority institution into PhD programs at major research universities. These institutions are California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), a minority institution which awards the MS as its highest science degree, and two PhD-granting major research institutions: the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and the University of California at Irvine. We propose to train each year a group of 25 minority students pursuing the MS degree at Cal State LA in a program designed to enhance their academic and research achievement; integrate them into the broader Southern California biomedical research community; expose them to a broad range of biomedical sciences and scientists; enhance their transfer rate to PhD programs; and establish the foundation for their eventual successful research careers in the biomedical sciences. B2D@CSLA seeks to further an established environment at Cal State LA that mimics a doctoral program in many important respects: We provide a strong, lab-based M.S. research environment where the research interests of the Fellows drive their placement in labs. We design an academic plan for the Fellows that overcomes deficiencies in their undergraduate records. We employ monthly discipline-specific journal clubs for Fellows to be trained in critical analysis of the original research literature. We host three strong, weekly science seminar series throughout the academic year that provide opportunities for Fellows and faculty to interact with academic scientists from PhD-granting institutions. And we provide close mentoring to our Fellows to guide them through the academic process—mentoring provided by a faculty that is itself well represented by minority group members. These best practices, initiated and institutionalized by NIH-funded student training programs, have made Cal State LA a well-respected magnet for minority science graduates in the Greater Los Angeles area to earn their MS degrees and proceed to the PhD degree. This proposal seeks to expand these best practices at Cal State LA from two departments to six departments, from one College to three Colleges, and from 6 students to 25 students.

该国生物医学研究企业中少数群体成员的参与不足代表 尚未用于解决国家的许多生物医学解决方案的大型人才库的丧失 问题。作为解决这种情况的部分解决方案，洛杉矶盆地提案中的三个机构 Cal State LA（B2D@CSLA）计划的合作桥，以增加数量 博士学位的才华横溢的少数民族学生生物医学的计划。这将通过增加 将少数族裔学生从少数族裔机构的强大MS计划转移到主要的博士学位课程 研究大学。这些机构是加利福尼亚州立大学，洛杉矶（加州州立大学），少数民族 授予MS作为最高科学学位的机构和两项博士学位的主要研究 机构：加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校（加州大学洛杉矶分校）和加利福尼亚大学尔湾分校。我们 提议每年培训一组25名少数族裔学生在Cal State La中攻读MS学位 旨在增强其学术和研究成就的计划；将它们整合到更广泛的地方 南加州生物医学研究界；将它们暴露于广泛的生物医学科学中 科学家；提高其向博士学位课程的转移率；并为他们的最终建立基础 生物医学的成功研究职业。 B2D@CSLA寻求进一步建立 在许多重要方面模仿博士课程的Cal State LA的环境：我们提供强大的， 基于实验室的M.S.研究环境，研究员的研究兴趣推动了他们在实验室的安置。 我们为研究员设计了一个学术计划，该计划克服了本科记录中的缺陷。我们 员工月度学科特定的期刊俱乐部，以对原始的批判性分析进行培训 研究文献。在整个学年中，我们都会举办三个强大的，每周的科学开创性系列赛 为研究员和教师提供与博士学位授予机构的学术科学家互动的机会。 我们为研究员提供了密切的心理，以指导他们完成学术过程 - 由由少数群体成员很好地代表的教师提供的。这些最佳实践，发起 由NIH资助的学生培训计划制度化，使Cal State La成为备受尊敬的 大洛杉矶地区的少数民族科学毕业生的磁铁以赢得其MS学位并继续 至博士学位。该建议旨在从两个部门扩大加州州立大学的最佳实践 从一所大学到三所大学的六个部门，从6个学生到25名学生。