ENHANCING BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AT SPELMAN COLLEGE

斯佩尔曼学院是美国黑人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的示范机构。平均而言，34%的Spelman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，Spelman见证了攻读博士学位的科学专业人数增加了57%。 再加上学生的成功，斯佩尔曼在科学教师是积极的研究人员和管理赠款，不仅有助于推进各自学科的奖学金，但也为学生提供研究生学习的重要研究培训经验。 该项目的长期目标是鼓励和使斯派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为国家生物医学研究事业作出贡献的非裔美国妇女的人数。 为了显著增加选择生物医学研究作为职业的斯派曼学生的数量，我们正在努力在校园内创造一种有利的“研究文化”。这个项目的指导原则是，学生需要参与研究活动的早期，并作为一个持续的一部分，他们的本科培训，他们需要在这些研究活动的教师导师。 由于斯派曼的生物医学教师通过其他机制开发自己的研究计划，我们正在制定并行战略，使他们能够继续重要的指导活动。 我们提出的战略是聘请关键人员，以帮助发展教师和学生的生物医学研究能力。 为此，为拟议的RISE计划确定了三个目标。这些是：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，并提供一种培养这种兴趣的“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纳入其研究和教学活动的能力。 3.发展斯佩尔曼学院教师和学生对现代生物医学研究技术的常规使用。一系列八个相关的发展活动已经提出，将导致学生从她对研究的最初好奇心，通过结构化的培训计划，独立研究，和GRE准备。 我们相信，这种结构化的过程将显着增加谁追求在生物医学研究的职业生涯的斯佩尔曼妇女的数量。

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.