ENHANCING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AT SPELMAN COLLEGE

斯佩尔曼学院被誉为非洲裔美国女性在科学领域的领先教育者之一，并被美国国家科学基金会指定为本科数学和科学教育卓越模范机构。平均而言，34%的斯佩尔曼女性主修自然科学和数学；30%的年度毕业班获得这些学科的学位；自1988年以来，斯佩尔曼见证了攻读博士学位的理科专业人数增加了57%。除了学生的成功，斯佩尔曼理工学院的教师都是积极的研究人员和管理助学金，这些助学金不仅有助于提高各自学科的奖学金，还为学生提供重要的研究生学习研究培训经验。该项目的长期目标是鼓励并使斯佩尔曼的学生能够选择生物医学研究作为职业目标。总体目的是显著增加为国家生物医学研究事业做出贡献的非裔美国女性的数量。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令人信服的“研究文化”。这个项目的指导原则是，学生需要在本科培训的早期参与研究活动，并作为继续培训的一部分，他们在这些研究活动中需要教师指导。随着斯佩尔曼的生物医学教员通过其他机制开发他们自己的研究计划，我们正在开发并行战略，使他们能够继续进行重要的指导活动。我们建议的战略是聘请关键人员来帮助发展教师和学生的生物医学研究能力。为此，已经为拟议的RISE计划确定了三个目标。这些是：1.在他们的学术生涯早期提高学生对生物医学研究的认识和兴趣，并提供一种培养这种兴趣的“研究文化”。2.培养生物医学研究人员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.培养斯佩尔曼学院教职员工和学生对现代生物医学研究技术的常规使用。已经提出了一系列八个相互关联的发展活动，这些活动将引导学生从最初对研究的好奇心，通过有组织的培训计划，到独立研究和GRE准备。我们相信，这一结构化的过程将显著增加从事生物医学研究事业的斯佩尔曼女性的数量。

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.