MAXIMIZING STUDENT DIVERSITY IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

项目简介：分子水平的多样性创造了地球上曾经存在的生命形式的骚乱。 作为团队的一部分，个人之间的思想、观点和背景的多样性可以增强 性能追求科学知识和卓越，然后要求学生从 所有背景。此申请要求资金支持最大限度地提高学生发展的倡议 在华盛顿大学的生物和生物医学科学部（DBBS）内， 圣路易斯在十个练习生的水平，相当于我们目前的支持水平。我们IMSD计划的使命是 提高优秀博士生的入学率、培训率、保留率、毕业率和职业成就 从历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体中， 科学家，从而增加美国STEM劳动力的力量。 自2013年成立以来，我们的IMSD计划已经创建了15个培训元素， 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 进入代表性不足（UR）的博士生，往往所有DBBS博士生。集中在第一年， 第三，这些培训活动跨越了我们学生的研究生职业生涯，并侧重于确保他们超越定义 学术里程碑，学会批判性思考，有效地写作和谈论研究，发展强大的 学生支持网络，探索职业选择，并可以参与社区教育推广 活动自创建以来，这些活动和我们的IMSD计划有助于减少和最近似乎 消除了URM和代表性良好的学生之间以前持续存在的成绩差距， 资格考试成功和博士生保留/完成的条款。 我们新的IMSD计划将欢迎所有进入UR DBBS博士生进入它，确保它仍然是 中心的学术，科学和职业支持UR学生在DBBS。我们建议支持学生 他们的头两年的研究生院，并将优先选择学生谁克服了重大 艰难的支持。在其九年的历史中，我们目前的IMSD计划增加了UR学生的成功 并作为我们新的IMSD计划的基础。通过专注于研究生的卓越和创新 教育和社区建设，我们的新计划将加速科学卓越的传统， 我们通过增加不同的科学家在我们的博士课程的存在和成功，并最终在 STEM劳动力

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.