ESTEEMED Honors Research Training at UTSA

UTSA 的 ESTEEMED 荣誉研究培训

• 批准号: 10252783
• 负责人: Gail Patricia Taylor
• 金额: $ 27.98万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-07-23 至 2024-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10252783
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The U.S. needs a strong, diverse workforce of PhD-level scientists and engineers to meet emerging challenges in healthcare. The long term goal of the UTSA ESTEEMED Program is to cultivate an exceptional cohort of minority, disadvantaged, or disabled freshmen students, currently underrepresented (UR) in the biosciences, to develop as scientists and leaders who rise to meet these emerging challenges. UTSA is an excellent recruiting and training ground for these future scientists, with a large UR population and laboratories that perform high quality biomedical research and embrace undergraduate (UG) researchers. UTSA also has a high-performing NIH-funded MARC U*STAR Honors Research Training Program, active since 1980, into which the ESTEEMED trainees can transition when they become juniors. The proposed ESTEEMED program requests 7 training positions in its first year and 14 thereafter, to maintain a balanced number of freshman and sophomore trainees. The trainees will be recruited from nine majors in the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering. We hypothesize that we can transform these incoming UR freshmen into future world-class scientists through accomplishment of the following Specific Aims: #1 support academic achievement; #2 support growth as a scientist and science communicator; #3 instruct trainees about career options and diverse fields, with a focus on biomedical computation; and #4 promote leadership development and address known barriers to UG and doctoral degree attainment in UR populations. The many activities designed to achieve these Aims will be introduced in a pre-Freshman Bridge Program, extend throughout all semesters of the freshman and sophomore years, and include two full-time summer research programs in consecutive summers, one at UTSA and the next at a nationally ranked university or medical center. The trainees will face challenges that continuously spur their personal and professional growth. For example, their immersion in research will progress from lab visits, to rotations, to research at UTSA, to research in a different institution in a new city. The success of the program will be measured in GPA outcomes; research presentations and publications; admission into MARC; degree completion; admission into doctoral training; and long term career outcomes, as well as qualitatively reported increases in confidence or integration into science culture. Unique program features include a UTSA-supported “extra” summer program, and early completion of the first semester of MARC training during this summer program, to better align the ESTEEMED and MARC training sequences. Also, with depression rampant in graduate student populations, ESTEEMED trainees will complete biofeedback training to improve their resistance to stress. Program outcomes will include: at least 95% of trainees will complete their degree, 50% will progress to the MARC and 75% of MARC matriculants will pursue a PhD; all second year students will present at several local and one national conference, and 40% will gain authorship by graduation. Program success will provide evidence for inclusion of additional freshman interventions on campus.

美国需要一支强大的潜水员劳动力，博士学位的科学家和工程师来应对新兴的挑战 在医疗保健中。 UTSA受人尊敬的计划的长期目标是培养一个特殊的队列 少数民族，处于弱势群体或残疾的新生，目前在生物科学中的代表性不足（UR） UTSA是一位出色的招聘，是作为科学家和领导者发展以应对这些新兴挑战的科学家和领导者。 这些未来科学家的培训场所，大量的人口和实验室表现较高 优质的生物医学研究和拥抱本科（UG）研究人员。 UTSA也有高性能 NIH资助的Marc U*Star荣誉研究培训计划，自1980年以来活跃起来 学员可以在成为大三时过渡。拟议的尊敬的计划要求7培训 在第一年和此后的14个职位，以保持数量均衡的新生和大二学员。 培训将从生物学，化学，物理，心理学， 和生物医学工程。我们假设我们可以将这些传入的新生转变为未来 世界一流的科学家通过实现以下特定目标：＃1支持学术成就； ＃2支持作为科学家和科学传播者的增长； ＃3指导学员有关职业选择和潜水员 田地，重点是生物医学计算； ＃4促进领导力发展并解决已知 UG和UN博士学位的障碍。旨在实现这些的许多活动 AIMS将在邮票前的桥梁计划中引入，扩展到大一新生的所有学期 和大二年，并连续夏季包括两个全日制夏季研究计划，一个在 UTSA和下一个在全国范围的大学或医学中心。学员将面临挑战 不断刺激他们的个人和专业成长。例如，他们沉浸在研究中会进展 从实验室访问到轮换，再到UTSA的研究，再到新城市的另一家机构的研究。成功 该程序将在GPA成果中衡量；研究演讲和出版物；入场 马克；学位完成；入学博士培训；和长期职业成果以及 定性地报道了对科学文化的信心或整合的增加。独特的程序功能包括 由UTSA支持的“额外”夏季计划，以及在MARC培训的第一学期的早期完成 这个夏季计划，以更好地对齐受人尊敬的MARC培训序列。另外，有抑郁症 受人尊敬的学员在研究生群体中猖ramp，将完成生物反馈培训以改进 他们对压力的抵抗力。计划成果将包括：至少95％的学员将完成学位， 50％的人将进入MARC，而75％的MARC入学者将攻读博士学位；所有二年级的学生都将 出席了几次本地和一个全国会议，而40％的会议将通过毕业获得作者身份。程序 成功将为校园内其他新生干预措施提供证据。