UAB PREP Scholars Program

UAB PREP 学者计划

• 批准号: 7795901
• 负责人: JEFFREY ALLEN ENGLER
• 金额: $ 30.8万
• 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 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7795901
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) is a comprehensive research university and medical complex with $192 million of NIH-funded research. UAB has a strong commitment to training undergraduate and graduate students from diverse backgrounds, including underrepresented minorities and students from disadvantaged backgrounds. UAB has established and supported several programs to help these students meet their educational and career goals. What UAB currently lacks is a means to provide opportunity to potential graduate students who make a decision to pursue doctoral education 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: 1) Minority students who apply to one of our biomedical doctoral programs, but who are not offered admission due to low GRE scores or no research experience (about 30 per year) 2) Alabama undergraduate students who participate in programs aimed at STEM disciplines (Alabama Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation students; 700-800 per year) 3) Graduates in Chemistry and Biology from institutions throughout Alabama. Our proposed PREP program will provide opportunities to those students who need to strengthen their credentials for entry into doctoral education. Our overall goal is to recruit 10 students per year and to provide them a high quality research experience in the laboratories of NIH-funded mentors and 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 mentors to develop a demanding research project that will lead to at least one publication; 80% or more of each student's time will be devoted to completing this research project. 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 also provide activities to strengthen writing and quantitative skills, provide career information, develop presentation skills, discuss research ethics, and network with peers at scientific meetings. Student progress toward meeting the goals of their IDP will be monitored quarterly. We expect that establishing a PREP Scholars program at UAB will increase the number of minority applicants who are well prepared for entry into top doctoral programs across the US. To build a diverse work force, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will identify and prepare 10 students from groups underrepresented in biomedical research for a series of training and academic experiences to prepare them for entry into top doctoral graduate programs in the U.S. These students who will already have earned a baccalaureate degree will be paired with NIH-funded faculty members at UAB who will mentor these trainees and provide high quality research experiences in biomedical sciences. Individual development plans will be tailored to each student's needs, to identify specific activities to prepare them for success in doctoral study, including academic enrichment, scientific writing, quantitative skills development, presentation skills, ethics in research, career mentoring, and quarterly assessment of progress.

描述（由申请人提供）：阿拉巴马大学伯明翰大学（UAB）是一家全面的研究大学和医学综合体，拥有1.92亿美元的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，包括代表性不足的少数民族以及来自处境不利的背景的学生。 UAB已建立并支持多个计划，以帮助这些学生满足他们的教育和职业目标。 UAB目前缺乏的手段是为在本科职业后期决定从事博士教育的潜在研究生提供机会。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。我们已经确定了招募此类学生的几个潜在池：1）申请我们的生物医学博士课程之一的少数族裔学生，但由于GRE得分低或没有研究经验或没有研究经验（大约30年），他们没有被录取。来自阿拉巴马州的机构的生物学。我们提出的准备计划将为那些需要加强进入博士教育的资格的学生提供机会。我们的总体目标是每年招募10名学生，并在NIH资助的导师的实验室和学术丰富的机会中为他们提供高质量的研究经验，以使他们有竞争力地进入NIH资助的顶级机构的生物医学研究生课程。学生将与导师合作开发一个苛刻的研究项目，这将导致至少一份出版物；每个学生的80％或更多时间将致力于完成该研究项目。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还将提供活动，以增强写作和定量技能，提供职业信息，发展演讲技巧，讨论研究伦理，并与同行在科学会议上与同行建立联系。学生将每季度监视实现其IDP目标的进步。我们预计，在UAB建立预科课程计划将增加准备进入美国顶级博士课程的少数民族申请人的数量。 To build a diverse work force, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) will identify and prepare 10 students from groups underrepresented in biomedical research for a series of training and academic experiences to prepare them for entry into top doctoral graduate programs in the U.S. These students who will already have earned a baccalaureate degree will be paired with NIH-funded faculty members at UAB who will mentor these trainees and provide high quality research experiences in biomedical科学。个人发展计划将根据每个学生的需求量身份量身定制，以确定特定的活动，以准备在博士研究中取得成功，包括学术丰富，科学写作，定量技能发展，演示技巧，研究中的道德规范，职业指导和进步季度评估。