MAXIMIZING STUDENT DIVERSITY IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

项目摘要：分子水平的多样性创造了地球上有史以来存在的各种生命形式。 作为团队的一部分，个人之间的思想、视角和背景的多样性增强 性能。因此，对科学知识和卓越的追求要求包括来自 所有背景。此应用程序请求资金以支持最大化学生发展计划 年，华盛顿大学生物和生物医学科学系(DBBS)内的(IMSD)项目 圣路易斯十名学员的水平，相当于我们目前的支持水平。我们IMSD项目的使命是 提高优秀博士生的升学、培训、留住、毕业和职业成就 来自科学界历史上代表性不足的群体，以帮助改变下一代的面貌 并因此增加了美国STEM劳动力的力量。 自2013年启动以来，我们的IMSD项目已创建了15个培训要素，这些要素与 博士生培训和研究，支持基本上所有人的学术、专业和职业成功 进入代表不足(UR)的博士生，通常是所有DBBS博士生。集中在一到一年 第三，这些培训活动跨越了我们的学生的研究生职业生涯，并专注于确保他们超过规定的 学术里程碑，学会批判性思考，有效地写和说研究，发展强大 学生支持网络，探索职业选择，并可以参与社区教育外展 活动。自创建以来，这些活动和我们的IMSD计划帮助减少了，最近似乎 消除了URM和有良好代表性的学生之间以前一直存在的成绩差距 资格考试成功和博士生留存/完成的条件。 我们新的IMSD项目将欢迎所有进入UR DBBS的博士生进入该项目，确保它仍然是 DBBS为UR学生提供学术、科学和职业支持的中心。我们建议支持学生 在他们研究生的头两年，将优先选择那些克服了 艰难的支持。在其九年的历史中，我们目前的IMSD项目提高了UR学生的成功 并作为我们新的IMSD项目的基础。通过专注于研究生的卓越和创新 在教育和社区建设方面，我们的新计划将在 通过增加不同科学家在我们的博士项目中的存在和成功，并最终在 干预型员工。

Project Summary: Diversity at the molecular level has created the riot of life forms ever to exist on earth. Diversity of thought, perspective, and background among individuals working as part of a team enhances performance. The pursuit of scientific knowledge and excellence then demands the inclusion of students from all backgrounds. This application requests funds to support an Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (IMSD) program within the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) at Washington University in St. Louis at the level of ten trainees, equal to our current level of support. The mission of our IMSD program is to increase the matriculation, training, retention, graduation, and career outcomes of outstanding PhD students from groups historically underrepresented in the sciences in order to help change the face of the next generation of scientists and thus increase the power of the STEM workforce in the US. Since its inception in 2013, our IMSD program has created 15 training elements that integrate seamlessly with PhD student training and research, bolstering the academic, professional, and career success of essentially all entering underrepresented (UR) PhD students and often all DBBS PhD students. Concentrated in years one to three, these training activities span our students’ graduate careers and focus on ensuring they surpass defined academic milestones, learn to think critically and to write and speak effectively about research, develop strong student support networks, explore career options, and can engage in community-based educational outreach activities. Since their creation, these activities and our IMSD Program have helped reduce and of late appear to have eliminated the previously persistent achievement gap between URM and well-represented students in terms of qualifying exam success and PhD student retention/completion. Our new IMSD Program will welcome all entering UR DBBS PhD students into it, ensuring that it remains the epicenter of academic, scientific, and career support for UR students in DBBS. We propose to support students for their first two years of graduate school and will preferentially select students who have overcome significant hardship for support. Over its nine-year history, our current IMSD program has increased UR student success and serves as the foundation for our new IMSD program. By focusing on excellence and innovation in graduate education and community-building, our new program will accelerate the tradition of scientific excellence in the US by increasing the presence and success of diverse scientists in our PhD programs and ultimately in the STEM workforce.