UAB PREP Scholars Program

UAB PREP 学者计划

• 批准号: 8639578
• 负责人: JEFFREY ALLEN ENGLER
• 金额: $ 39.77万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-04-01 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8639578
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a comprehensive research university and medical complex with $224 million of NIH-funded research in 2011. UAB has a strong commitment to training undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented minorities, students from disadvantaged backgrounds, and students with disabilities. UAB has established and supported several programs to help such students meet their career goals. Some potential graduate students make a decision to pursue doctoral education too late in their undergraduate career. These students may have already attained their baccalaureate degrees, but do not have the credentials for entry into top biomedical graduate programs where prior research experience and high standardized test scores are essential criteria for admittance. We have identified several potential pools from which to recruit such students. Our PREP program will continue to provide opportunities to these students who need to strengthen their credentials for entry into doctoral education. Based on our past accomplishments (8/11 past scholars now enrolled in doctoral graduate programs), UAB provides a fertile training ground to prepare PREP scholars for entry into the most competitive graduate training programs. Our overall goal is to recruit 8 students per year and to provide them a high quality research experience in the laboratories of NIH-funded mentors and multiple academic enrichment opportunities to equip them to be competitive for entry into biomedical graduate programs at top NIH-funded institutions. The students will work with their mentors to develop a challenging research project at which they will spend 80% or more of their time. An individual development plan (IDP) will also be designed for each student, to address any academic weaknesses that might affect success in future graduate attainment. The IDP will provide activities to strengthen writing and quantitative skills, provide career information, develop presentation skills, discuss research ethics, and foster networking with peers at scientific meetings, such as the Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students. The PREP Scholar's progress toward meeting the goals of their IDP will be monitored at least quarterly in meetings with Dr. Engler and their research mentor. The program will also provide opportunities for the scholars to interact with graduate students and student organizations (such as the Black Graduate Student Association), to build a sense of community and support for the scholars. We expect that continuing the already successful PREP Scholars program at UAB will increase the number of minority applicants who are well prepared for entry into top doctoral programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：伯明翰大学（UAB）的阿拉巴马大学是一家全面的研究大学和医学综合体，2011年拥有2.24亿美元的NIH资助研究。UAB致力于培训来自不同背景的本科生和研究生，包括少数人不足的本科生和研究生。 UAB已建立并支持几个计划，以帮助这些学生实现他们的职业目标。一些潜在的研究生决定在本科生的职业中攻读博士教育太晚。这些学生可能已经获得了学士学位，但是没有资格进入顶级生物医学研究生课程，在这些课程中，先前的研究经验和高标准化考试成绩是入学的必要标准。我们已经确定了几个潜在的游泳池来招募这些学生。我们的准备计划将继续为需要加强进入博士教育资格的学生提供机会。根据我们过去的成就（过去的8/11学者现在参加了博士研究生课程），UAB提供了一个肥沃的培训场，以准备培训学者，以进入最有竞争力的研究生培训计划。我们的总体目标是每年招募8名学生，并在NIH资助的导师的实验室中为他们提供高质量的研究经验，并为他们提供多种学术丰富的机会，使他们有能力在NIH资助的顶级机构进入生物医学研究生课程。学生将与他们的导师合作开发一个具有挑战性的研究项目，在该项目中，他们将花费80％或更多的时间。个人发展计划（IDP）也将为每个学生设计，以解决可能影响未来研究生成就成功的任何学术弱点。 IDP将提供增强写作和定量技能的活动， 提供职业信息，发展演讲技巧，讨论研究伦理，并与同伴在科学会议上，例如针对少数族裔学生的年度生物医学研究会议。预科学者在实现其IDP目标方面的进展将至少在与Engler博士及其研究导师的会议上进行监控。该计划还将为学者提供与研究生和学生组织（例如黑人研究生协会）互动的机会，以建立社区意识和对学者的支持。我们预计，在UAB上持续成功的预科学者计划将增加准备进入顶级博士课程的少数民族申请人的数量。