ENHANCING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AT SPELMAN COLLEGE

斯佩尔曼学院在培养非裔美国女性从事科学研究方面享有盛誉，并被美国国家科学基金会指定为本科数学和科学教育的卓越模范机构。平均而言，34%的斯佩尔曼女性主修自然科学和数学；每年30%的毕业生被授予这些学科的学位；自1988年以来，斯佩尔曼见证了攻读博士学位的科学专业学生人数增长了57%。再加上学生的成功，斯佩尔曼科学学院的教师都是活跃的研究人员，他们管理的资助不仅有助于提高各自学科的奖学金，而且为学生提供了重要的研究培训经验，以供研究生学习。该项目的长期目标是鼓励和使斯佩尔曼学生选择生物医学研究作为职业目标。总的目的是大大增加非洲裔美国妇女为国家生物医学研究事业作出贡献的人数。为了显著增加选择生物医学研究作为职业的斯佩尔曼学生的数量，我们正在努力在校园内创造一种有利的“研究文化”。该项目的指导原则是，学生需要尽早参与研究活动，并将其作为本科培训的一部分，并且他们需要教师指导这些研究活动。随着斯佩尔曼生物医学学院通过其他机制发展自己的研究项目，我们正在制定并行策略，使他们能够继续开展重要的指导活动。我们建议的策略是雇用关键人员来帮助发展教师和学生在生物医学研究方面的能力。为此，已为拟议的RISE计划确立了三个目标。它们是：1；提高学生在学术生涯早期对生物医学研究的认识和兴趣，并提供一种促进这种兴趣的“研究文化”。2. 培养生物医学研究教师和学生将现代计算机和信息技术融入他们的研究和教学活动的能力。3. 发展斯佩尔曼学院师生对现代生物医学研究技术的常规应用。提出了一系列八个相关的发展活动，这些活动将引导学生从最初对研究的好奇心，通过结构化的培训计划，到独立研究和GRE准备。我们相信，这种结构化的流程将显著增加从事生物医学研究的斯佩尔曼女性人数。

Spelman College has a reputation as one of the leading educators of African American women in the sciences, and is designated by the National Science Foundation as a Model Institution for Excellence in undergraduate mathematics and science education. On average, 34 percent of Spelman women major in the natural sciences, and mathematics; 30 percent of the annual graduating class are awarded degrees in these disciplines; and since 1988, Spelman has witnessed a 57 percent increase in the number of science majors pursuing doctoral degrees. Coupled with student success, Spelman faculty in the sciences are active researchers and administer grants that not only help to advance scholarship in their respective disciplines, but also provide students with vital research training experiences for graduate study. The long-term goal of this project is to encourage and enable Spelman students to choose biomedical research as a career goal. The overall purpose is to significantly increase the number of African American women contributing to the nations biomedical research enterprise. To significantly increase the number of Spelman students who choose biomedical research as a career, we are striving to create an enabling "research culture" on campus. A guiding principle of this project is that students need to be involved in research activities early in, and as a continuing part of, their undergraduate training, and that they need faculty mentors in these research activities. As the biomedical faculty at Spelman develop their own research programs through other mechanisms, we are developing parallel strategies to enable them to continue significant mentoring activities. Our proposed strategy is to hire key personnel to help develop faculty and student capabilities for biomedical research. To these ends, three goals have been established for the proposed RISE program. These are: 1. To increase student awareness of and interest in biomedical research early in their academic careers, and provide a "research culture" that fosters this interest. 2. To develop the ability of biomedical research faculty and students to incorporate modern computer and information technology into their research and teaching activities. 3. To develop the routine use of modern biomedical research techniques by faculty and students at Spelman College. A series of eight linked developmental activities has been proposed that will lead a student from her initial curiosity about research, through a structured training program, to independent research, and GRE preparation. We believe this structured process will significantly increase the number of Spelman women who pursue a career in biomedical research.