Haumana Biomedical Program

描述（由申请人提供）：Haumana Biomedical的目标 计划（1）为少数民族学生提供高质量的实验室 在生物医学和健康科学领域的经验。民族 被确定为在该机构的生物医学科学代表性不足 包括：全夏威夷人和半夏威夷人（8.9%）、菲律宾裔美国人（8.7%）、萨摩亚人和 太平洋岛民美国人（1.0%）和其他混合（2）（9.2%）。程序 目标是增加少数民族学生的人数， 追求生物医学领域的职业生涯。共有12名本科生和3名 研究生研究助理将有两年的“动手”实验室 经验该方案的方法是多学科的，涉及约14个 来自7个科学学科的教师。通过实验室体验，丰富 活动，参加全国会议的旅费， 教师，该计划旨在提高更多的竞争力 少数民族攻读博士学位。℃下第二个关键因素是 过程是程序提供给学生参加的机会， 和/或在大陆会议上展示科学成果，并开展工作， 出版。所提供的丰富活动包括一系列关于“道德和 研究”，“生物医学职业基础”研讨会， “科学交流技能”和“电子显微镜”研讨会。一个新 倡议是支持少数民族教师发展项目， 使研究者获得独立的研究地位。额外 少数民族科学家将前往UHM，以激励学生留在道路上 走向生物医学事业该计划将为学生提供课程学分 参加秋季和春季学期的每周研讨会。我们计划继续 成功的11周“学生充实计划”，提供16个夏季 参与者有机会在UHM的研究实验室工作。两名学生 每个人都将参加太平洋地区的MBRS项目。两个高中 学生和两名本科生参加了该大学的卡皮奥拉尼社区 大学也将被邀请参加夏季体验。的 夏季充实计划为研究人员提供了增加 高中生和大学生的科学技能 谁将适用于MBRS计划后，他们回到他们的家乡校园， 秋季学期这所大学从研究数量的增加中获益 助理能够贡献新的知识和专业知识， 生物医学和健康科学领域。 (1)Haumana（夏威夷语中的学生）生物医学项目是 少数民族生物医学研究支持（MBRS）计划，IMSD，这是由 美国国立卫生研究院普通医学科学研究所。 (2)非裔美国人，美洲原住民，西班牙裔。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the Haumana Biomedical Program(1) is to provide ethnic minority students with high quality laboratory experiences in the biomedical and health science fields. Ethnic groups identified as underrepresented in the institution's biomedical sciences include: Full and Part-Hawaiians (8.9%), Filipino-Americans (8.7%), Samoan and Pacific Islander Americans (1.0%), and Other Mixed(2) (9.2%). The program objective is to increase the number of ethnic minority students who choose to pursue careers in the biomedical fields. A total of 12 undergraduates and 3 graduate research assistants will have two years of "hands-on" laboratory experiences. The program's approach is multidisciplinary, involving some 14 faculty from 7 science disciplines. Through the lab experience, enrichment activities, travel to a national conference, and career guidance by the faculty, the program seeks to improve the competitiveness of a greater number of ethnic minorities to pursue a Ph.D. degree. A second key factor in this process is the opportunity the program provides for the student to attend, and/or present scientific results at a mainland conference and to produce work for publication. Enrichment activities offered include a series on "Ethics and Research," a seminar on "Foundation to a Biomedical Career," a course on "Science Communication Skill," and an "Electron Microscopy" workshop. A new initiative is support of a minority faculty development project that will enable the investigator to gain independent research status. Additional minority scientists will travel to UHM to motivate students to stay on the path towards a biomedical career. The program will offer course credits to students to attend weekly seminars in the Fall and Spring semesters. We plan to continue the successful 11 week "Student Enrichment Program" that affords 16 summer participants the opportunity to work in a research lab at UHM. Two students each will attend from MBRS programs in the Pacific region. Two high school students and two undergraduates attending the university's Kapiolani Community College will also be invited to participate in the summer experience. The summer enrichment program affords research faculty the opportunity to augment the science skills of the high school students as well as the undergraduates who will apply to the MBRS programs upon their return to their home campuses in the Fall semester. The university gains from the increased number of research assistants capable of contributing new knowledge and expertise in the biomedical and health science fields. (1) The Haumana (Hawaiian word for student) Biomedical Program is part of the Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS) Program, IMSD, which is part by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH. (2) African American, Native American, Hispanic.