ESTEEMED LEArning and Discovery through Engineering Research at Syracuse (LEADERS)

为了保持其在医疗保健和医药领域的全球领导者地位，美国需要加强其劳动力队伍 通过吸收更多来自生物工程和生物医学研究领域不同背景的科学家 careers.然而，如果不首先增加本科生的多样性，这一目标是无法实现的。 工程项目，这是一个严峻的挑战，全国。少数种族和族裔， 残疾人和来自弱势背景的个人在生物医学领域的代表性明显不足。 工程研究各种学术和非学术因素有助于这些学生的决定 加入本科工程或生物工程课程。为了消除这些限制因素， 迫切需要创建一个多样化和包容性的生态系统，在其中代表性不足的生物医学工程 学生们觉得他们属于，预计成功，并支持和指导一个相互关联的 教师，员工和同行的网络。为了实现这一目标，通过以下方式进行受人尊敬的学习和发现： 工程研究在锡拉丘兹（LEADERS）计划已经制定了招聘，保留和导师四个 锡拉丘兹大学生物医学工程专业的八名学生组成的小组， 博士课程，随后在生物工程，生物医学， 行为研究受人尊敬的领导者计划将改变目前数量有限的模式， 来自锡拉丘兹生物工程不同背景的学生， 卓越，促进通过深思熟虑，重点突出，资源充足的方法获得博士学位， 吸引和培养这些有才华的年轻人。我们将介绍所需的概念和技能， 在为期六周的夏桥计划中，通过丰富的方案支持和活动来实现这些目标。 这些概念和技能将在第一学年得到加强，学生将通过 第二学年结束。这些目标将通过四个方案支柱实现，即目标1： 增强学生对自己学术能力的信心。目标2：让学生参与沉浸式研究 在生物工程和生物医学研究方面的经验。目标3：提供有针对性的指导和技能 发展目标4：提高学生对生物工程职业对社会影响的看法。这些 两年的集体经验和真实的研究培训将使学生过渡到 蕾妮皇冠荣誉计划在荣誉，学生将获得更多的支持，使他们的发展 荣誉论文和研究生院的追求。因此，该计划的首要使命是增加 攻读博士或医学博士/博士学位的生物工程专业学生人数不足， 有助于国家对更多样化的研究队伍的需求。

To maintain its position as a global leader in healthcare and medicine, the US needs to strengthen its workforce by including greater numbers of scientists from diverse backgrounds in bioengineering and biomedicine research careers. However, this goal is not attainable without first increasing the diversity of students in undergraduate engineering programs, which is an acute challenge nationally. Racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds are significantly underrepresented in biomedical engineering research. A variety of academic and non-academic factors contribute to these students’ decisions to join an undergraduate engineering or bioengineering program. To eliminate these limiting factors, there is an urgent need to create a diverse and inclusive ecosystem where underrepresented biomedical engineering students feel like they belong, are expected to succeed, and are supported and mentored by an interconnected network of faculty, staff, and peers. To achieve this goal, the ESTEEMED LEArning and Discovery through Engineering Research at Syracuse (LEADERS) program has been developed to recruit, retain, and mentor four cohorts of eight underrepresented students in biomedical engineering at Syracuse University who go on to join doctoral programs and subsequently lead independent research careers in bioengineering, biomedicine, and behavioral research. The ESTEEMED LEADERS program will shift the current paradigm of the limited number of students from diverse backgrounds in bioengineering at Syracuse to a new ecosystem of inclusive research excellence that promotes attaining a doctorate through a deliberate, focused, and well-resourced approach to attracting and advancing these talented young people. We will introduce the concepts and skills needed to achieve these aims via rich programmatic support and activities during the six-week summer bridge program. These concepts and skills will be reinforced in the first academic year, and the students will master them by the end of the second academic year. These goals will be accomplished through four programmatic pillars—Aim 1: Boost students’ confidence in their academic abilities. Aim 2: Engage students in immersive research experiences in bioengineering and biomedicine research. Aim 3: Provide focused mentoring and skill development. Aim 4: Enhance students’ perspectives on the impact of bioengineering careers on society. These collective experiences and authentic research training over the two years will enable students to transition into the Renée Crown Honors Program. In Honors, students will receive more support to enable their development of an Honors theses and their pursuit of graduate school. Thus, the program's overarching mission is to increase the numbers of underrepresented bioengineering students who pursue the PhD or the MD/PhD, and so contribute to the nation's need for a more diverse research workforce.