U-RISE at Tennessee State University

项目总结 田纳西州立大学(TSU)是一所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学(HBCU)，成立于1912年。一个非常好的 TSU本科生的高比例来自历史上代表性不足的群体(UR) 生物医学研究。超过95%的台州大学本科生是UR，79%的非裔美国人，2.1% 西班牙裔，0.19%原住民/上午。印度人。建议的台大本科生科研培训计划 学生增强(U-RISE)计划的首要目标是增加UR的数量 接受必要教育/培训(生物医学博士学位)的本科生 从事生物医学研究事业。德克萨斯州立大学的U-Rise项目将提供心理社会资源， 课程作业，以及学生从本科升学到 研究生院(博士和医学博士/博士课程)。拟议的计划将支持3名初级学生和3名 生物、化学或心理学专业的本科生。一系列战略 为实现该计划的以下具体目标，建议开展以下活动：1.提高留存率 参加TSU-Rise项目的学生的4年毕业率高于 TSU作为一个整体，以及参与TSU U-Rise计划的各部门。留存和 拟议中的U-Rise计划实习生的毕业率预计将超过90%。2. 为正在攻读生物、化学或心理学学士学位的UR学生准备申请 生物医学的研究生课程(特别是博士课程)。该计划将支持3个 每年有3名初级和3名高级学生，目标是至少有3名毕业学生中的2名 (67%)在毕业后两年内申请博士学位。3.提供课程作业、研究 经验和心理社会资源(讲习班、实践社区和学习 社区)需要学生获得他们申请的那些博士项目的接受。 有75%的申请博士项目的学生(在给定的两年内)在两年内获得录取 多年的毕业生活。4.培养台大U-Rise学员的批判性思维能力，为 研究生项目录取和完成所需的分析严谨程度。GRE对一些人来说 在多大程度上衡量这些技能。目标是获得154分(64位)的平均口头和定量分数 口语百分位数、定量百分位数53%)。另一种衡量标准 批判性思维技能将是批判性地讨论研究论文的能力，每一篇论文都将得到评估 在当前的生物医学主题课程中学习了一学期。5.培养台大U-Rise的演讲技巧 计划参与者。每一年的U-Rise参与者将至少提交他们的研究报告2 每年(国家、地区或地方)的科学会议。在第二年，学生们将在1个国家 专业会议和至少1次地区或地方会议。

PROJECT SUMMARY Tennessee State University (TSU) is a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) founded in 1912. A very high percentage of TSU undergraduate students are from groups historically under-represented (UR) in biomedical research. More than 95% of TSU undergraduates are UR with 79% African American, 2.1% Hispanic, and 0.19% Native/Am. Indian. The proposed TSU Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) program has the overarching goal of increasing the number of UR undergraduate students who pursue the necessary education/training (Ph.D. degrees in biomedicine) to engage in biomedical research careers. The TSU U-RISE program will provide the psychosocial resources, course work, and research experiences needed for students to progress from undergraduate school to graduate school (Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. programs). The proposed program will support 3 Junior and 3 Senior undergraduate students majoring in Biology, Chemistry, or Psychology. A number of strategies and activities are proposed to achieve the following specific goals of the program: 1. Increase the retention and 4-year graduation rates of students who participate in the TSU U-RISE program above those of TSU as a whole and of the departments participating in the TSU U-RISE program. The retention and graduation rates of the proposed U-RISE program trainees would be expected to be greater than 90%. 2. Prepare UR students who are pursuing a BS degree in Biology, Chemistry, or Psychology to apply to graduate programs in the biomedical sciences (specifically Ph.D. programs). The program will support 3 Junior and 3 Senior level students each year and aims to have a minimum of 2 of the 3 graduating students (67%) applying to PhD programs within 2 years of graduating. 3. Provide the course work, research experiences, and psychosocial resources (workshops, communities of practice, and learning communities) needed for students to gain acceptance to those Ph.D. programs to which they apply. Have 75% of those students who apply to Ph.D. programs (in a given 2-year period) gain acceptance within 2 years of graduating. 4. Develop critical thinking skills of TSU U-RISE trainees to prepare them for the level of analytical rigor needed for graduate program admission and completion. The GRE is to some extent a measure of these skills. The objective is to have average verbal and quantitative scores of 154 (64th percentile verbal, 53rd percentile quantitative) for those students who take the exam. Another measure of critical thinking skills will be the ability to critically discuss research papers, which will be assessed each semester in the current biomedical topics course. 5. Develop the presentation skills of TSU U-RISE program participants. Each of the first year U-RISE participants will present their research at a minimum of 2 scientific meetings per year (national, regional, or local). In the second year, students will present at 1 national discipline specific meeting and a minimum of 1 regional or local meeting.