Advancing aging research through development of minority gerontologists

通过培养少数族裔老年学家推进老龄化研究

• 批准号: 8919203
• 负责人: ATANU DUTTAROY
• 金额: $ 35.53万
• 依托单位: HOWARD UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2019-11-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8919203
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of establishing the Advancing Diversity in Aging Research (ADAR) program at Howard University (HUADAR) is to identify a group of bright minority students from MSTEM disciplines early during their undergraduate years and then through extensive mentoring and training prepare them to successfully compete for graduate studies and other professional careers. By making them familiar with aging research early in their career, this cadre of minority researchers could be made squarely interested about building a career on geriatrics and gerontology. The Rationales for developing an HUADAR program is quite justifiable, for more than a century Howard University is engaged in training underrepresented minority students. About 97% of Howard's mentees are African Americans and National Science Foundation's (NSF) recent ranking put Howard University as the top producer of bachelor's degree recipients who subsequently earned science and engineering doctoral degrees nationally from top-tier research universities. Moreover, with an aggressive recruitment effort, Howard University successfully recruited several faculty members in MSTEM areas who are maintaining an active research programs on various aspects of aging and age related disorders. Therefore, Howard University has the ideal environment to identify a cadre of talented minority scientists early during their undergraduate years and it has the required resources to provide them with a foundation of knowledge and research skills through mentoring so that these students will excel in the interdisciplinary field of gerontology. Trainee compositio for HUADAR program will include 100% underrepresented minorities. Approximately 7,000 undergraduate students enroll at Howard in 29 undergraduate departments and programs, approximately 97% of enrollees are African American and 67% are women. Furthermore, 20% (or 1,400) major in Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering and Allied Health with greater than 80% declaring medicine as their career goal. We plan to recruit five students from MSTEM disciplines each year by selecting them early at the end of their freshman year using a recruitment strategy which includes: a) identification of strong performing students in the introductory courses, b) students enrolled in the Honors Program, c) recommendations by faculty members, and d) students responding to advertisements, announcements, and oral presentations. Proposed training is a comprehensive research education plan designed for HUADAR trainees which consists of following components: (1) develop two new courses on aging, (2) exposure to aging research in various laboratories at Howard during sophomore and junior years, (3) attending research seminars by prominent gerontologists, (4) a summer research apprenticeship opportunity outside Howard University in leading research institutes on aging like NIA Baltimore, UT Health Sciences Center, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown University Medical Centers, University of Maryland and University of Washington, (5) writing a honors thesis/senior thesis during senior year, (6) provide one on one mentoring to build a successful career path. Thus, from their sophomore year up to the senior year we have a carefully laid out plans to educate the HUADAR trainees on different aspects of aging research including the social aspects of aging. All students and personnel will be required to participate in instruction on the Responsible Conduct of Research. Evaluation plan for HUADAR will consist of course evaluations, student performances, faculty efficacy surveys, summer research experience surveys, successful completion of an honors thesis/senior thesis. The long-term goal of HUADAR program is to prepare minority students as future researchers through scientific training and educational experiences and we will encourage them to seek aging research as a career goal. Thus we will embrace the goal of NIA ADAR initiative to "fill a gap in the pipeline transitioning from undergraduate to graduate education in aging as it relates to medicine, science, technology, engineering, and mathematics to fulfill the objectives of the NIA Health Disparities Strategic Plan".

描述（由申请人提供）：在霍华德大学（Huadar）建立衰老研究（ADAR）计划的多样性的目的是确定一群来自大学学科的聪明少数族裔学生在本科生的早期，然后通过广泛的指导和培训，然后通过广泛的指导和培训使他们成功地竞争研究生研究和其他职业生涯和其他职业生涯。通过使他们在职业生涯初期熟悉衰老研究，这位少数族裔研究人员的干部可能会对在老年医学和老年医学上建立职业完全感兴趣。制定Huadar计划的理由是合理的，对于一个多世纪以来的霍华德大学，霍华德大学的培训培训代表性不足。霍华德的受训者中约有97％是非裔美国人和国家科学基金会（NSF）的最新排名，使霍华德大学成为学士学位获得者的顶级生产国，后来从顶级研究大学获得了全国科学和工程博士学位。此外，通过积极的招聘工作，霍华德大学成功地招募了系统地区的几位教职员工，他们正在维护有关衰老和与年龄相关的疾病各个方面的积极研究计划。因此，霍华德大学拥有理想的环境，可以在本科生的早期开始确定一群才华横溢的少数族裔科学家，并且有必要的资源通过指导为他们提供知识和研究技能的基础，以便这些学生将在老年学的跨学科领域中表现出色。 Huadar计划的Trainee Compositio将包括100％代表性不足的少数民族。大约有7,000名本科生在霍华德（Howard）的29个本科生和计划中招收，大约97％的入学者是非裔美国人，有67％是女性。此外，有20％（或1,400）专业的生物学，化学，物理，数学，工程和盟军健康，宣布医学为其职业目标。我们计划每年使用招聘策略在大一新生结束时选择五名学生学科的学生，其中包括：a）识别出色表现的学生 入门课程，b）参加荣誉计划的学生，c）教师的建议，d）响应广告，公告和口头演讲的学生。 Proposed training is a comprehensive research education plan designed for HUADAR trainees which consists of following components: (1) develop two new courses on aging, (2) exposure to aging research in various laboratories at Howard during sophomore and junior years, (3) attending research seminars by prominent gerontologists, (4) a summer research apprenticeship opportunity outside Howard University in leading research institutes on aging like NIA Baltimore, UT Health科学中心，约翰·霍普金斯（Johns Hopkins），乔治敦大学医学中心，马里兰大学和华盛顿大学（5）高中期间撰写荣誉论文/高级论文，（6）一对一地提供了一对一的指导来建立成功的职业道路。因此，从他们的大二一年到高年级，我们制定了一项仔细规定的计划，以教育Huadar培训生，包括衰老研究的各个方面，包括衰老的社会方面。所有学生和人员都必须参加负责任的研究的指导。 Huadar的评估计划将包括课程评估，学生表演，教师效力调查，夏季研究经验调查，成功完成荣誉论文/高级论文。 Huadar计划的长期目标是通过科学的培训和教育经验使少数族裔学生成为未来的研究人员，我们将鼓励他们寻求老化的研究作为职业目标。因此，我们将采用NIA Adar倡议的目标，即“填补从本科生到衰老的研究生教育的空白，因为它与医学，科学，技术，技术，工程和数学有关，以实现NIA健康差异战略计划的目标”。