BRIDGE TO THE DOCTORAL DEGREE--UPR TO UMDNJ

该项目是建立一个博士之间的桥梁， 波多黎各-马亚圭斯大学生物学和博士课程 在医学和牙科大学从事分子生物科学研究， 新泽西生物医学科学研究生院，皮斯卡特维校区。 的博士项目代表了UMDNJ和 罗格斯大学，新泽西的州立大学。 学生人数在 MS机构在生物医学领域的代表性严重不足 科学和没有博士课程在该机构作为一个 这些学生的选择。 这个项目的计划是三年 当然，工作和研究，一年在普遍定期审议，其余两年 在UMDNJ的几年 在成功完成这三年计划后， MS学位将被授予UPR，学生将被录取 有博士学位的人在UMDNJ的节目。 该计划将 与UMDNJ的其他各种少数民族倡议计划相结合， 包括支持少数族裔的UMDNJ-罗格斯管道计划 研究生学习的最初几年。 该计划已经 在招聘、保留和完成 少数民族研究生，并存在良好的工作关系 并且在UMDNJ和UPR之间得到了很好的证明。

The project is to establish a doctoral bridge between the MS program in Biology at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez and the Ph.D programs in the molecular biosciences at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Piscataway Campus. The Ph.D. programs represent a collaborative effort between UMDNJ and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. The student population at the MS institution is overwhelmingly under represented in the biomedical sciences and there is no doctoral program at that institution as an option for these students. The plan of the program involves three years of course work and research, one year at UPR, with the remaining two years at UMDNJ. Upon successful completion of this three year program, the MS degree will be awarded from UPR and the student will be admitted with advanced standing to Ph.D. programs at UMDNJ. The program will interface with a variety of other minority initiative programs at UMDNJ, including the UMDNJ-Rutgers Pipeline Program which supports minority students during initial years of graduate study. The program already has a strong track record in recruiting, retaining, and completing minority graduate students, and an excellent working relationship exists and is well demonstrated between UMDNJ and UPR.