MAXIMIZING STUDENT DIVERSITY IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

最大限度地提高华盛顿大学生物医学科学学生的多样性

基本信息

批准号：
10397561
负责人：
James Benjamin Skeath
金额：
$ 56.3万
依托单位：
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2013
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2013-05-20 至 2023-10-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10397561
关键词：
Academic Training Achievement Age Bachelor&apos s Degree Biological Black American Data Development Doctor of Philosophy Elements Ensure Exposure to Funding Goals Grant Gravitation Hispanic Americans Individual Internships Knowledge Life Michigan Mission Molecular NCI Scholars Program Native Americans Occupations Outcome Patient Care Performance Planets Population Heterogeneity Productivity Program Development Qualifying Request for Applications Research Research Personnel STEM career Schools Science Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Scientist Structure Students Talents Time Training Training Activity United States Universities Washington aging population base career career development career preparation clinical practice college design doctoral student foot graduate student matriculation member mid-career faculty programs recruit retention rate senior faculty statistics student training success support network underrepresented minority student

项目摘要

Abstract: Diversity at the molecular level has created the diversity of all life forms ever to exist on this planet. Recent studies by Scott E. Page (Univ. Michigan) suggest increased diversity of thought, perspective and background among individuals working as part of a team enhances performance. The pursuit of knowledge and scientific excellence then demands the inclusion of students from all backgrounds. This application requests continued support for a successful `Initiative for Maximizing Student Development' (IMSD) program within the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) at Washington University. The mission of our program is to increase the matriculation, training, retention, graduation, and career outcomes of outstanding PhD students from groups historically underrepresented in the sciences in order to increase the diversity and power of the STEM workforce in the US, particularly at the professoriate level. Over the past grant cycle, our IMSD program has developed 15 training elements that integrate seamlessly with graduate student training and research, bolstering the academic, professional, and career training of all entering under- represented (UR) PhD students and in many cases all DBBS PhD students. In the next grant cycle, we propose to add five new activities to our program in order to further drive student success and reduce the achievement gap between UR and non-UR students in our PhD programs. These training elements span our students' graduate careers and focus on ensuring they surpass defined academic milestones (e.g., first-year courses, qualifying exams, and thesis proposals), are exposed to varied career options via career panels and job- shadowing opportunities, and develop strong vertically-integrated student support networks. Our IMSD Program is only in its fourth-year of existence, but already welcomes essentially all entering UR DBBS PhD students into it, even though program funds can support only a subset of these students, ensuring that our program is the focal point of academic and career development support for UR students in DBBS. Our IMSD Program supports students for up to their first two years and preferentially selects students for support who have demonstrated a talent for and determination in the pursuit of research-based science, while overcoming significant hardships. Despite its young age, our program already has helped to increase early stage UR student retention and academic success and to narrow the achievement gap between UR and non-UR students. Thus, our IMSD program harbors great potential to increase the diversity of scientists within the US workforce, and in so doing continuing and enhancing the tradition of scientific excellence in the US.

摘要：分子水平的多样性创造了这个星球上曾经存在的所有生命形式的多样性。 Scott E. Page（密歇根大学）最近的研究表明，思想、观点和观点的多样性有所增加。作为团队一部分工作的个人的背景可以提高绩效。对知识的追求科学的卓越性要求包容来自不同背景的学生。这个应用程序要求继续支持成功的“学生发展最大化倡议”（IMSD）计划华盛顿大学生物与生物医学科学系（DBBS）。的使命我们的计划是提高学生的入学、培训、保留、毕业和职业成果来自历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的优秀博士生，以提高美国 STEM 劳动力的多样性和力量，特别是在教授级别。过去的事在拨款周期中，我们的 IMSD 项目开发了 15 个培训要素，可与研究生无缝集成学生培训和研究，加强所有进入本科阶段的学术、专业和职业培训代表了 (UR) 博士生，在许多情况下代表了所有 DBBS 博士生。在下一个资助周期，我们建议在我们的计划中添加五项新活动，以进一步推动学生的成功并减少成绩 UR 和非 UR 学生在我们的博士课程中的差距。这些培训要素涵盖了我们学生的毕业生的职业生涯，并专注于确保他们超越既定的学术里程碑（例如，第一年的课程，资格考试和论文提案），通过职业面板和工作接触到不同的职业选择见习机会，并发展强大的垂直整合的学生支持网络。我们的IMSD 该项目仅存在第四年，但基本上已经欢迎所有进入 UR DBBS 博士学位的人学生参与其中，尽管计划资金只能支持这些学生的一部分，确保我们的项目是为 DBBS 的 UR 学生提供学术和职业发展支持的焦点。我们的IMSD 该计划为学生提供长达前两年的支持，并优先选择以下学生提供支持：在追求以研究为基础的科学方面表现出了天赋和决心，同时克服了重大困难。尽管我们的项目还很年轻，但它已经帮助增加了早期阶段 UR 学生的数量保留率和学业成功，并缩小 UR 和非 UR 学生之间的成绩差距。因此，我们的 IMSD 计划具有增加美国劳动力科学家多样性的巨大潜力，并且以此延续并加强美国卓越科学的传统。