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全球领导者的地位，美国需要加强其劳动力 通过吸收更多来自不同背景的科学家从事生物工程和生物医学研究 事业。然而，如果不首先增加本科生的多样性，这一目标是不可能实现的 工程项目，这在全国范围内是一个严峻的挑战。种族和少数民族，有 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促成了这些学生的决定 参加本科生工程或生物工程项目。要消除这些限制因素，有一个 迫切需要创建一个多样化和包容性的生态系统，在这个生态系统中，生物医学工程的代表性不足 学生们感觉自己属于自己，被期望取得成功，并得到了相互关联的 教职员工和同行组成的网络。为了实现这一目标，尊敬的学习和发现通过 锡拉丘兹工程研究(领导者)计划已经开发出来，以招聘、留住和指导四名 锡拉丘兹大学生物医学工程专业的八名未被充分代表的学生继续加入 博士课程，并随后领导生物工程、生物医学和 行为研究。受人尊敬的领袖计划将改变目前有限人数的模式 从锡拉丘兹生物工程专业的不同背景的学生到包容性研究的新生态系统 通过深思熟虑、专注和资源充足的方法来促进获得博士学位的卓越 吸引和提拔这些有才华的年轻人。我们将介绍所需的概念和技能 在为期六周的夏季桥牌项目中，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来实现--目标1： 增强学生对自己学术能力的信心。目标2：让学生参与身临其境的研究 具有生物工程和生物医学研究经验。目标3：提供有重点的指导和技能 发展。目标4：增强学生对生物工程职业对社会影响的观点。这些 两年的集体体验和真实的研究培训将使学生能够过渡到 勒内王冠荣誉计划。在荣誉方面，学生将得到更多的支持，以促进他们的发展 优等生毕业论文和攻读研究生学位。因此，该计划的首要任务是增加 攻读博士学位或医学博士/博士学位的人数不足的生物工程专业学生 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.