MIDARP at Hunter College

描述(由申请人提供)：亨特学院是一所历史悠久的城市大学，历史上一直在教育那些接受高等教育的机会受到限制的人群。几十年来，超过60%的亨特学院本科生一直是服务不足的学生，目前我们大约75%的学生是女性。多年来，我们一直坚定地致力于培养我们独特的学生群体，通过CUNY的研究生中心提供从本科课程到博士论文研究的全方位学术项目。此外，心理学系有一个核心研究人员，他们专注于滥用药物。NIDA认识到我们的教学和科学潜力，并于1999年向Hunter授予MIDARP奖助金。这笔赠款的目的是发展已经参与药物滥用研究的初级教员的职业生涯，首次聘请一名高级教员参与药物滥用研究，让本科生和研究生参与药物滥用研究，并改善学院的研究基础设施。所有目标都达到并超过了。这两名初级教员都是少数族裔学者，他们已经制定了他们的研究计划，并逐渐成为各自领域的专家；我们的资深杰出教授现在深入参与药物滥用研究，并曾担任NIDA的顾问。本科生和研究生已经进入了一流的博士项目，并在著名的实验室获得了博士后奖学金。我们已经改善了设施，获得了主要设备赠款，并正在扩大和更新我们的动物设施。这份续签申请建议将MIDARP计划转移到下一阶段：为我们的MIDARP教员获得独立的NIH资金，包括其感兴趣的领域包括生物行为和心理社会研究的新教员，使我们能够扩大我们在学生指导方面的成功，将新的学生干部包括在内，并继续努力改善研究基础设施和宣传药物滥用研究。我们拥有一位经验丰富、资金雄厚、成功的项目总监，他拥有丰富的指导经验，完全致力于实现MIDARP的目标，并制定了实现这些目标的周密计划。我们建议的机制包括：准备NIH R01申请，评估初级教员的新项目，招收新学生，包括参加新的CUNY荣誉计划的本科生，让这些学生为全国最好的博士项目做好准备，并继续获得资金来改善我们的基础设施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hunter College is a long existing urban university with a history of educating populations whose access to higher education has been historically limited. For decades, over 60% of Hunter College undergraduates have been underserved students and currently about 75% of our students are women. Throughout the years, we have demonstrated a strong commitment to educate our unique population of students, with a full range of academic programs, from undergraduate classes to doctoral dissertation research through the CUNY's Graduate Center. Moreover, the Department of Psychology has a core of researchers focused on drugs of abuse. NIDA recognized our didactic and scientific potential and awarded a MIDARP grant to Hunter in 1999. The goals of that grant were to develop the careers of junior faculty already involved in drug abuse research, engage a senior faculty member for the first time in drug abuse research, involve undergraduate and graduate students in drug abuse research, and improve the research infrastructure at the College. All goals were met and exceeded. The two junior faculty, both minority scholars, have developed their research programs and are becoming recognized as experts in their fields; our senior Distinguished Professor is now deeply involved in drug abuse research and has served as a consultant to NIDA. Undergraduate and graduate students have moved into top-notch Ph.D. programs and to postdoctoral fellowships in distinguished laboratories. We have improved facilities, obtained major equipment grants, and are in the process of expanding and updating our animal facility. This renewal application proposes to move the MIDARP program to the next stage: obtain independent NIH funding for our MIDARP faculty, include new faculty whose areas of interest include biobehavioral and psychosocial research allowing us to expand our success with student mentoring to include new cadres of students, and continue our efforts to improve research infrastructure and publicize drug abuse research. We do so with a highly experienced, well-funded, and successful Program Director who has substantial mentoring experience and is committed fully to the goals of MIDARP, and with well thought out plans for achieving these goals. We propose mechanisms for preparing NIH R01 applications, evaluating new projects from junior faculty, recruiting new students, including University Scholars who are undergraduates enrolled in the new CUNY Honors program, preparing those students to be highly competitive for the best Ph.D. programs in the Country, and continuing to obtain funding to improve our infrastructure.