Minority Access to Research Careers

少数人获得研究职业机会

• 批准号: 8665951
• 负责人: CATHERINE J ATKINS
• 金额: $ 14.25万
• 依托单位: SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-06-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8665951
• 关键词: Academia; Address; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Collaborations; Communication; Critical Thinking; Data; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Documentation; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Evaluation; Feedback; Funding; Goals; Laboratory Research; Manuscripts; Mentors; Minority; Oral; Outcome; Preparation; Publications; Recruitment Activity; Research; STEM field; Schools; Science; Scientist; Students; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Work; Writing; career; college; design; evidence base; experience; improved; physical science; programs; skills; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of this competitive continuation proposal for the SDSU MARC-U*STAR is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who attain Ph.D. degrees in the biomedical, behavioral, quantitative, and physical sciences. We will offer a program of graduate school preparation that includes: mentored research experiences by dedicated research mentors, so that MARC scholars acquire excellent research and laboratory skills and contribute to manuscripts leading to presentations and publications; workshops, professional development and an academic curriculum designed to develop critical thinking, quantitative, and oral and written communication skills; and opportunities to present research before professional audiences. We will work with the myriad student development projects organized under the Center for the Advancement of Students in Academia (CASA), in the College of Sciences (COS). CASA has developed into a mature program of student support through working collaboratively with extramurally funded student programs and leveraging internal SDSU and COS support. Collaboration with other student success programs in Division of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) will establish a sustainable Pre-MARC program that will identify and recruit freshmen and sophomores majoring in STEM disciplines and provide them with experiences to enhance their engagement in science while developing their capacity to address disciplinary and interdisciplinary scientific questions. Through Pre-MARC activities, the pool of students eligible and ready to apply to MARC scholars will be increased. By partnering with programs that have similar or synergistic objectives, we expect the SDSU MARC program will continue to further the goal of increasing the numbers of underrepresented scientists who are competitively trained to pursue careers in biomedical or behavioral research. A strong evaluation component that includes comparisons against baseline data will provide evidence-based documentation of student success and we will use such evaluative data and feedback to continue to improve our outcomes. Our training program will result in students with strong, highly competitive applications for doctoral training programs such that 60% our graduating seniors will enter directly into Ph.D. programs in the biomedical, behavioral and/or physical sciences in the first year, with 5% increase each year thereafter, resulting in 80% entering doctoral program by the end of the funding cycle in 2014.

描述（由申请人提供）：这项针对 SDSU MARC-U*STAR 的竞争性延续提案的总体目标是增加来自代表性不足群体的获得博士学位的学生数量。生物医学、行为、定量和物理科学学位。我们将提供研究生院准备计划，其中包括： 由专门的研究导师指导研究经验，以便 MARC 学者获得出色的研究和实验室技能，并为演讲和出版物的手稿做出贡献；研讨会、专业发展和学术课程，旨在培养批判性思维、定量以及口头和书面沟通技能；以及向专业观众展示研究成果的机会。我们将与理学院 (COS) 学术学生促进中心 (CASA) 组织的众多学生发展项目合作。通过与校外资助的学生项目合作并利用内部 SDSU 和 COS 支持，CASA 已发展成为一个成熟的学生支持项目。与本科生研究部 (DUS) 的其他学生成功项目合作，将建立一个可持续的 Pre-MARC 项目，该项目将识别和招募 STEM 学科专业的新生和大二学生，并为他们提供经验，以增强他们对科学的参与，同时培养他们的能力解决学科和跨学科的科学问题。通过 Pre-MARC 活动，有资格并准备申请 MARC 学者的学生人数将会增加。通过与具有相似或协同目标的项目合作，我们预计 SDSU MARC 项目将继续进一步实现增加代表性不足的科学家数量的目标，这些科学家接受了竞争性培训，以从事生物医学或行为研究的职业。包括与基线数据比较在内的强大评估部分将提供学生成功的循证记录，我们将使用此类评估数据和反馈来继续改进我们的成果。我们的培训计划将为学生带来强有力的、高度竞争性的博士培训计划申请，这样我们 60% 的应届毕业生将直接进入博士学位。第一年生物医学、行为和/或物理科学项目，此后每年增加 5%，到 2014 年资助周期结束时，80% 的人进入博士项目。