RaMP: Diversifying the National Biology Workforce through New York Transdisciplinary BioSciences (NY-RaMP)

指导下一代多样化的科学工作者对于加快创新科学和促进积极的国家未来至关重要。纽约的研究网络将学术界、工业界和研究机构的跨学科生物科学与许多创造性思维和才华横溢的劳动力结合在一起，但高级职位通常缺乏多样性。亨特学院贝尔弗研究联盟的研究教授和训练有素的教育工作者将领导纽约生物科学学士后研究和辅导(NY-RAMP)跨学科计划。NY-RAMP的指导团队将为缺乏研究经验的应届理科毕业生提供研究和职业发展机会。NY-RAMP计划将提供细胞、分子和生物信息学跨学科的高影响力研究沉浸和教育，重点是发现科学。沉浸体验是为好奇心强、研究经验有限的应届毕业生准备的。该计划将使选定的新兴学者能够接受积极参与合作细胞信号研究的研究教授的培训。重要的是，NY-RAMP将努力为美国提供一支急需的多样化的跨学科生物学培训的劳动力。NY-RAMP项目为三批10名应届毕业生提供为期一年的生物学研究经验，其主题是跨学科的实验、计算和应用生物科学，以研究细胞信号。纽约城市大学(CUNY)亨特学院(Hunter College)的跨部门教授担任首席调查员(PI)、协调员和联合PI，以及导师，并与其他纽约州机构的联合导师团队合作。这些跨学科的科学家共同搭建了纽约在学术和劳动力发展方面必须提供的人和科学的多样性的桥梁。该计划鼓励新兴学者成为生物思想家，并发展成为科学家。NY-RAMP将选定的新兴学者连接到纽约州立大学布鲁克林冷泉港实验室(CSHL)分子生物学和基因定向新人训练营(除了后续实地考察之外)、纽约州立大学(SUNY)领导层和校园、Skirball科学学习中心(亨特学院)、康奈尔文化谦逊中心、活跃的纽约生物产业实地考察，以及对纽约地区学院和大学的访问。这一以跨学科研究为重点的项目旨在为参与协作的发现科学而设计，让导师和被辅导者在多样化的综合环境中获得对细胞信号的深入理解。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Mentoring the next generation of a diverse scientific workforce is critical to accelerate innovative science and promote a positive national future. The research network in New York combines trans-disciplinary biosciences across academia, industry, and research institutes with many creative minds and a talented workforce, however senior positions typically lack diversity. Research professors and trained educators of the Hunter College Belfer Research Alliance will lead the New York Research and Mentoring for Postbaccalaureates in Biological Sciences (NY-RaMP) trans-disciplinary program. The mentoring team of NY-RaMP will provide research and professional development opportunities to launch the careers of recent science graduates lacking research experience. The NY-RaMP program will provide high-impact research immersion and education in trans-disciplinary cell, molecular, and bioinformatics, with a focus on discovery science. The immersion experiences are for inquisitive recent graduates who have limited research experience. This program will enable the selected emerging scholars to be trained by research professors actively involved in collaborative cell signaling research. Importantly, NY-RaMP will work to provide the nation with a much-needed diverse trans-disciplinary biology trained workforce.The NY-RaMP program provides one-year biology research experiences for three cohorts of ten recent graduates under the umbrella theme of trans-disciplinary experimental, computational, and applied biosciences to investigate cellular signaling. Cross-departmental City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College professors serve as the principal investigator (PI), the coordinator and co-PIs, and the mentors, in collaboration with co-mentoring teams from other New York state institutions. Together these trans-disciplinary scientists bridge the diversity of people and science that New York has to offer in scholarship and workforce development. The program encourages emerging scholars to become biological thinkers and develop into scientists. The NY-RaMP connects the selected emerging scholars to the CUNY Brooklyn-based Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) DNA Learning Center for molecular biology and gene-based orientation boot-camp (in addition to follow-up field trips), to State University of New York's (SUNY's) leadership and campuses, to the Skirball Science Learning Center (at Hunter College), to the Cornell Center for Cultural Humility, to active NY Biology Industry field trips, and to visits to NY-area Colleges and Universities. This trans-disciplinary inquiry focused program is designed for engaged collaborative discovery-science for mentors and mentees to gain deep understandings of cellular signaling in a diverse comprehensive environment.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.