SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona

加州理工波莫纳分校 SCORE 项目

• 批准号: 6522187
• 负责人: Donald F. Hoyt
• 金额: $ 107.67万
• 依托单位: CALIFORNIA STATE POLY U POMONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-04-01 至 2004-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6522187
• 关键词: SCORE; Program; Cal; Poly; Pomona

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona was established in June, 2000 to significantly improve the research capabilities of the University with the ultimate objective of increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who are motivated to pursue careers as biomedical scientists. To achieve these ends the program funds high-quality research leading to peer-reviewed publications and strengthens the infrastructure for scientific research. The existing program includes twelve subprojects involving a total of thirteen faculty, all with strong, demonstrable commitments to research, and graduate and undergraduate education. The program is interdisciplinary, involving faculty from four academic departments in two different colleges. The projects are diverse as well, covering topics ranging from human nutrition and health, to organ system structure and function, immunology, cellular and molecular biology, and organic and biochemistry. The requested supplemental subproject will expand the program by adding two projects, one dealing with muscle and the other dealing with bone. The project dealing with muscle will expand the amount of research using genetically modified animals, a very important technology in the field of biology, and contribute to the career of a newly hired faculty member in Biology. The project dealing with bone is the first submission of a SCORE grant application from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotions. It deals with osteoporosis, a critical health issue, and represents an important expansion of the SCORE program into a third college (Liberal Arts and Social Sciences) and a fifth department. The four departments already participating in the SCORE proposal have been very effective at recruiting underrepresented students, with enrollments of Latino students, for example, growing twice as fast as for the University as a whole.

描述（由申请人提供）：加州理工波莫纳分校的 SCORE 项目成立于 2000 年 6 月，旨在显着提高大学的研究能力，最终目标是增加有动力从事生物医学科学家职业的少数族裔学生的数量。为了实现这些目标，该计划资助高质量的研究，从而发表同行评审的出版物，并加强科学研究的基础设施。现有计划包括 12 个子项目，总共涉及 13 名教师，所有教师都对研究以及研究生和本科生教育做出了强有力的、明显的承诺。该项目是跨学科的，涉及来自两所不同学院的四个学术部门的教师。这些项目也多种多样，涵盖的主题从人类营养和健康到器官系统结构和功能、免疫学、细胞和分子生物学以及有机和生物化学。所请求的补充子项目将通过添加两个项目来扩展该计划，一个涉及肌肉，另一个涉及骨骼。这个涉及肌肉的项目将扩大使用转基因动物的研究量，这是生物学领域非常重要的技术，并为新聘用的生物学教员的职业生涯做出贡献。该项目涉及骨骼，是运动学和健康促进部首次提交 SCORE 拨款申请。它涉及骨质疏松症这一严重的健康问题，代表着 SCORE 项目向第三个学院（文科和社会科学）和第五个系的重要扩展。已经参与 SCORE 提案的四个院系在招收代表性不足的学生方面非常有效，例如，拉丁裔学生的入学人数增长速度是整个大学的两倍。