Los Angeles Basin Bridges to the PH.D Program

描述(申请人提供)：尽管洛杉矶大都市区是数百万非裔美国人、西班牙裔美国人、美国印第安人和太平洋岛民的家园，但很少有人攻读研究生课程，从而获得广泛的生物医学科学博士学位。这种对国家生物医学研究企业的参与不足代表着大量人才库的流失，这些人才库还没有被用于解决许多生物医学问题。作为对这种情况的部分解决方案，洛杉矶盆地的四所院校提议继续合作的洛杉矶盆地桥梁到博士项目，以增加生物医学博士项目中有才华的少数族裔学生的数量。这将通过增加少数民族学生在强终端理科硕士(M.S.)的转学来实现。按垂直方向排列的少数民族院校的课程 融入主要研究型大学的博士项目。这些机构是加利福尼亚州 加州大学洛杉矶分校(Cal State LA)是一所少数族裔院校，授予理科硕士学位作为其最高科学学位，以及三家授予博士学位的主要研究机构：加州大学洛杉矶分校(UCLA)、加州大学欧文分校(UCI)和南加州大学(USC)。我们建议每年培训五名在加州州立大学洛杉矶分校攻读硕士学位的少数族裔学生，该计划旨在提高他们的学术和研究成就；让他们融入更广泛的南加州生物医学研究社区；让他们接触广泛的生物医学科学和科学家；提高他们到博士项目的转化率；并为他们最终在生物医学科学领域成功的研究生涯奠定基础。在进入该项目时，学生将同时被加州州立大学洛杉矶分校的理科硕士项目录取，并有条件地进入参与该项目的博士机构的博士项目，并在成功完成硕士学位后转学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Although the Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to millions of African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians and Pacific Islanders, few are enrolled in graduate programs leading to the Ph.D. in the broad range of biomedical sciences. This under-participation in the nation's biomedical research enterprise represents the loss of a large talent pool that has not been applied towards the solution of the many biomedical problems. As a partial solution to this situation, four institutions in the Los Angeles basin propose to continue the collaborative Los Angeles Basin Bridges to the Ph.D. Program to increase the number of talented minority students in Ph.D. programs in the biomedical sciences. This would be done by increasing the transfer of minority students in strong terminal master of science (M.S.) programs at a minority institution by vertical integration into Ph.D. programs at major research universities. These institutions are California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), a minority institution, which awards the M.S. as its highest science degree, and three Ph.D.-granting major research institutions: the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the University of California at Irvine (UCI), and the University of Southern California (USC). We propose to train each year a group of five minority students pursuing the M.S. degree at Cal State LA in a program designed to enhance their academic and research achievement; integrate them into the broader Southern California biomedical research community; expose them to a broad range of biomedical sciences and scientists; enhance their transfer rate to Ph.D. programs; and establish the foundation for their eventual successful research careers in the biomedical sciences. On entry into the program the students would be simultaneously admitted to Cal State LA Master of Science programs, and conditionally accepted into Ph.D. programs in the participating doctoral institutions, with transfer upon successful completion of the M.S. degree.