MINORITY HIGH SCHOOL SCIENCE RESEARCH APPRENTICESHIPS

这项提议的目标是建立一个最高级别的计划 学校少数民族学生和K-12教师(在职和预科) 服务)将参与以项目为中心的动手实验室 在教师指导下的生物医学科学研究 加州州立大学洛杉矶分校的成员，城市少数民族 机构。我们建议让16名学生参加，其中4名- 在职教师和四名职前教师参与了本研究。 每年。其目的是提供参与研究 学徒对生物医学科学、职业有更深的了解 在他们的学术早期阶段的意识和科学素养 发展。我们对曝光这项研究特别感兴趣 向学徒介绍基础生物医学研究与 健康状况的改善。教员导师都是活跃的生物医学专家。 研究人员，并有处理少数族裔学生的经验。 事实上，相当多的培训教职员工是 少数群体或妇女)。他们的研究由各种不同的 来源包括NIH，NSF和私营部门，并已 通过NIH MARC和MBR计划对学生进行培训。 实现这些目标的过程包括把少数族裔放在首位 在教职员工的研究实验室中的学校师生 导师，他们将在个人中与导师一起工作 研究项目。研究学徒将接触到一名活跃的 提供榜样的研究和学术环境(大多数 少数民族中的本科生和研究生研究助理 会员，以及通常毕业于同一所高中的学生 目前有学徒参加。正如前面提到的，许多教职员工 导师也是少数群体成员)和科学丰富 旨在增强公众信心的活动 学徒追求生物医学科学的职业生涯。这所高中 学生们将为生物医学的大学学习做好更好的准备- 相关理科专业。教师将作为实习生更新他们的 科学实验室的教学技能，使这些技能可以在自己的身上使用 高中班。这将包括将实验改编为 导入高中教学环境，协作性高 学校科学项目和持续的科学伙伴关系 高中和加州州立大学洛杉矶分校。

The objective of this proposal is to establish a program where high school minority students and K-12 teachers (both In-service and Pre- service) will participate in project-centered hands-on laboratory research in the biomedical sciences under the supervision of faculty members at California State University, Los Angeles, an urban minority institution. We propose to involve a cohort of 16 students, four In- service teachers, and four Pre-service teachers in this research endeavor each year. The intent is to provide the participating research apprentices a greater understanding of the biomedical sciences, career awareness, and scientific literacy at an early stage of their academic development. We are particularly interested in exposing the research apprentices to the connection between fundamental biomedical research and the improvement of health. The faculty mentors are all active biomedical researchers and have experience in working with minority students. Indeed, a significant number of the training faculty are members of minority groups or women). Their research is funded by a variety of sources including the NIH, the NSF, and the private sector, and have trained students through the NIH MARC and MBRS programs. The process for achIeving these goals involves placing minority high school students and teachers in the research laboratories of the faculty mentors where they would work alongside the mentor in an individual research project. The research apprentices will be exposed to an active research and academic environment which provides role models (most of the undergraduate and graduate research assistants in the are minority group members, and generally graduates of the same high schools which the apprentices currently attend. As mentioned earlier, many of the faculty mentors are also minority group members) and science enrichment activities which are designed to increase the confidence of the apprentices to pursue careers in the biomedical sciences. The high school students will be better prepared for college studies in biomedically- related science majors. The teachers will be trainees to update their science laboratory teaching skills so that these may be used in their own high school classes. This will include the adaptation of experiments for importation to the high school teaching environment, collaborative high school science projects and continued science partnerships between the high schools and California State University, Los Angeles.