University of California, Santa Cruz, IMSD Program

我们IMSD项目的目标是显著增加获得博士学位的少数民族学生的数量，并培养学生在科学领域的职业，如教师、大学和生物技术行业的研究人员或医疗保健专业人员。研究生和本科生都参加我们的项目。我们有三个具体目标。首先，我们制定了一项长期计划，使获得博士学位的IMSD学员人数增加近一倍。根据之前的MBRS计划，我们在1988-1997年期间培养了20名博士。我们的IMSD项目始于1998年。我们的目标是在1998至2007年期间培养36名博士。为了实现这一目标，我们计划在未来四年培养14-15名博士。第二个目标是所有本科生的毕业率达到95%。此外，我们希望保持我们的记录，将95%的毕业生送入研究生院、专业学院或从事他们所接受的生物和化学培训。第三个目标是增加少数民族学生在期刊上发表论文和在国家科学会议上发言的人数。我们希望将论文和发表摘要的数量增加40%。拟资助博士研究生8人，本科生15人。我们项目的主要内容是：a)在第一年和第二年对学生进行早期拓展；B)第三年初的研究生选拔；C)新颖的夏季培训课程；D)学院实验室的本科生研究职位；E)研究生课程；F)每月一次的学生研究研讨会；g)项目支持办公室。

The goals of our IMSD program are to increase significantly the number of minority students who achieve the Ph.D. degree and to train students for careers in the sciences, as teachers, researchers in universities and the biotechnology industry or as health care professionals. Both graduate and undergraduate students participate in our program. We have three specific objectives. First, we have outlined a long-term plan to nearly double the number of IMSD participants who earn the Ph.D. Under the previous MBRS program we produced 20 Ph.D.s in the period 1988-1997. Our IMSD program began in 1998. We have set a target 36 Ph.D.s for the period 1998-2007. To meet that objective we propose to produce 14-15 Ph.D.s in the next four years. The second objective is to have a 95% graduation rate for all undergraduate participants. Furthermore we want to maintain our record of placing 95% of our graduates in graduate schools, professional Schools or in jobs in which they use their biology and chemistry training. The third objective is to increase the number of minority students who publish in journals and who make presentations at national scientific meetings. We wish to increase the number of papers and published abstracts by 40%. We propose to support 8 Ph.D. students and 15 undergraduates. The major elements of our program are: a) early outreach to students in their first and second year; b) selection of research students at the beginning of the third year; c) a novel summer training course; d) undergraduate research positions in faculty labs; e) the graduate program; f) a monthly student research seminar; and g) the program support office.