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UAB Blazer BRAIN (Broadening Representation And Inclusion in Neuroscience) Summer Program

UAB Blazer BRAIN（扩大神经科学的代表性和包容性）暑期项目

基本信息

批准号：
10595055
负责人：
Cristin F Gavin
金额：
$ 8.69万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2022
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2022-04-01 至 2027-03-31
项目状态：
未结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10595055
关键词：
Academic support Acceleration Administrator Admission activity Advisory Committees Advocacy Affect African American Alabama Biomedical Research Black race Brain Diseases Career Choice Communication Communities Dedications Development Disabled Persons Discipline Diverse Workforce Doctor of Philosophy Doctor&apos s Degree Education Educational process of instructing Enrollment Environment Equity Evaluation Exposure to Faculty Fostering Funding Future Goals Graduate Education Grant Hispanic Historically Black Colleges and Universities Infrastructure Institution Interview Investments Laboratories Latino Population Leadership Learning Location Mentors Mentorship Minority Groups Mission Modeling National Institute of General Medical Sciences National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke Neurosciences Neurosciences Research Population Heterogeneity Positioning Attribute Postdoctoral Fellow Process Readiness Research Research Personnel Research Project Grants Scholars Program Science Scientist Secure Services Social support Societies Southeastern United States Strategic Planning Structure Students Talents Training Training Support Underrepresented Minority United States United States National Institutes of Health Universities Woman career career life balance design disability disabled students disadvantaged background diversity and inclusion equity, diversity, and inclusion experience faculty mentor faculty research faculty support forging graduate school graduate student improved interest matriculation medical schools meetings nervous system disorder peer peer coaching programs recruit research faculty skills student mentoring success summer program summer research symposium undergraduate student

项目摘要

PROJECT ABSTRACT We seek NINDS R25 funding for the Blazer BRAIN (Broadening Representation And Inclusion in Neuroscience) Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB). Although the number of U.S. citizens from underrepresented minority (URM) groups earning doctoral degrees in science has increased over the past decade, URMs continue to represent a small proportion of the scientists in the United States. Our UAB Blazer BRAIN Program is a summer research experience that targets the obstacles impeding success with the goal of increasing the number of trainees from diverse backgrounds in neuroscience research. We will recruit talented undergraduates from our five partner HBCU institutions in AL, and nationally with a focus on the southeast region. We aim to expose Blazer BRAIN undergraduate Scholars to research on the healthy nervous system and neurological disease at UAB in laboratories of our federally funded faculty mentors. With continued investment in Neuroscience at UAB by the School of Medicine and the Comprehensive Neuroscience Center, the future of the Blazer BRAIN program is secure, and Scholars will benefit from the vibrant neuroscience environment at UAB that currently exceeds $60M in NIH funding, with approximately $24M of that from NINDS. The Blazer BRAIN Program will include career advising by the Program directors and research faculty mentors. In addition, the Blazer BRAIN Program will partner with the NIH R25-funded UAB Roadmap Scholars (RMS) Program, which also aims to promote diversity in neuroscience research but at the graduate level, by matching Blazer BRAIN Scholars with RMS Aspirational Mentors (RAMs), to allow our Scholars to “see themselves” as scientists in biomedical research careers. Blazer BRAIN Scholars will also be invited to attend the RMS NEURAL conference, held every summer at UAB. Other value-added components of the Blazer BRAIN Program include learning from their mentors about careers and work life balance as a neuroscientist at a major biomedical research university; improvement of scientific communication skills; opportunities to present research at a regional (UAB Summer Research EXPO) and national (ABRCMS, SACNAS or SfN) meeting; and assistance in preparing applications for graduate school. Our primary goal for the initial funding period is to demonstrate minimum 60% acceptance rate of Blazer BRAIN Scholars to PhD Programs. A rigorous evaluation plan is place with metrics designed to achieve this success, with input to be received from Blazer BRAIN Scholars, mentors, and internal and external advisory committees. If successful, the UAB Blazer BRAIN Program will increase diversity in neuroscience research, and in turn promote the development of a richly diverse workforce in the biomedical sciences.

项目摘要