MBRS RISE Program at California State University, Fresno

描述（由申请人提供）：加州州立大学弗雷斯诺，一个指定的西班牙裔服务机构，位于加州的农业中央谷，与所有主要的研究机构隔离。虽然我们的记录毕业少数民族学生与学士学位是优秀的，我们的少数民族学生科学继续研究生课程（约1/年）。我们的学生在几个基础科学类的调查显示，主要原因是：不知道的研究生涯（30%）;不知道如何追求研究生涯（77%）;和不知道的研究机会在我们的校园（60%）。因此，我们的大学具有巨大的潜力，可以在生物医学和行为科学的职业生涯中启动代表性不足的少数民族成员。我们的学生调查和焦点小组讨论，在2002年秋季和2003年春季学期进行，指出了科学研究文化的缺乏，并通过过程中缺乏系统的指导，进入生物医学研究生涯。本提案中的RISE计划将通过采取整体方法在我们的校园中创建科研文化来弥补这一点。该计划将从事我们最突出的教师在“种植”感兴趣的种子生物医学研究早在我们的学生的职业生涯（预研究部分），同时为20个本科生和12个研究生，感兴趣和合格的少数民族学生（成功之路和研究经验组件）提供研究机会。这些研究机会，目前在我们的大学不可用，将包括：在校园里带来杰出的研究科学家讨论他们的研究和非正式地与我们的学生互动;提供一组精选的学生感兴趣的生物医学或行为研究密集的两年的经验，以发展他们的研究兴趣和技能，并通过博士指导他们。申请流程RISE计划将是一个非常有价值和独特的组成部分，以满足科学专业的研究教育目标，并将增加少数民族学生在生物医学或行为领域攻读更高学位的数量。RISE计划的成功将通过一个全面的评估计划来衡量，该计划包括形成性、总结性、过程和结果（目标实现的衡量）组成部分。加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校自2000年以来一直有一个成功的SCORE计划，有助于我们为学生提供高质量的研究机会的能力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University Fresno, a designated Hispanic serving institution, is located in California's agricultural Central Valley, isolated from all major research institutions. While our record of graduating minority students with a bachelor's degree is excellent, few of our science minority students continue to graduate programs (about 1/yr). A survey of our students in several fundamental science classes revealed the main reasons to be: unaware of research careers (30%); ignorant of how to pursue a research career (77%); and unaware of research opportunities on our campus (60%). Hence, our university has a tremendous potential to initiate members of underrepresented minorities in careers on biomedical and behavioral sciences. Our student surveys and focus group discussions, conducted over the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003 semester, have pointed to a lack of research culture in the sciences, and the lack of a systematic guidance through the process to enter a biomedical research career. The RISE program in this proposal will remedy this by taking a holistic approach to creating a scientific research culture in our campus. The program will engage our most prominent faculty in "planting" the seed of interest for biomedical research early on in our students' careers (the Pre-Research component), while providing research opportunities for 20 undergraduate and 12 graduate, interested and qualified minority students (the Pathway to Success and Research Experience components). These research opportunities, not currently available at our university, will include: bringing prominent research scientists on campus to discuss their research and informally interact with our students; offering a select group of students interested in biomedical or behavioral research an intensive two-year experience to develop their research interests and skills and to guide them through the Ph.D. application process. The RISE Program would be an exceptionally valuable and unique component to meet research education objectives for science majors and will increase the number of minority students pursuing higher degrees in biomedical or behavioral fields. The success of the RISE program will be measured with a comprehensive evaluation plan which includes formative, summative, process, and outcomes (measurement of the achievement of the objectives) components. California State University, Fresno has had a successful SCORE program since 2000, contributing to our ability to offer quality research opportunities to our students.