California State Univ. San Bernardino SCORE Proposal

描述(申请人提供)：加州州立大学圣贝纳迪诺分校(CSUSB)是一所中等规模的综合性大学，校园种族多元化。截至2003年秋季入学，超过50%的学生自认为是代表性不足的少数群体的成员。CSUSB校区还有许多从事行为和生物医学研究的教职员工。然而，由于繁重的教学负担和加州州立大学系统缺乏研究资源，这些教职员工的实验室以发表的同行评议手稿和外部赠款的数量衡量，生产率不高。目前MBRS评分建议的目标是提高生物、化学和心理学系教师的生产率，为CSUSB的少数族裔教师和学生提供更多在行为和生物医学科学方面的研究机会。为了实现这一目标，我们建议：(1)资助优秀的教师发起的研究项目；(2)为从事行为和生物医学研究的教师提供统计咨询和资助研讨会，以增加我们校园提交的同行评议的手稿和资助的数量；以及(3)通过我们的外部科学咨询委员会，提供来自我们校园教师以外的知名研究人员的指导和指导。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB) is a medium-sized comprehensive university with a very racially diverse campus. As of the Fall 2003 enrollment, over 50% of the student population self-identified as a member of an under-represented minority group. The CSUSB campus also has a number of faculty members engaged in behavioral and biomedical research. However, because of heavy teaching loads and a lack of resources for research from the California State University system, the laboratories of these faculty members have had modest productivity as measured by the number of peer-reviewed manuscripts published and external grant awards. The goal of the present MBRS SCORE proposal is to increase the productivity of faculty in the departments of Biology, Chemistry and Psychology to provide more research opportunities in behavioral and biomedical sciences for minority faculty and students at CSUSB. To achieve this goal, we propose to: (1) fund meritorious faculty-initiated research projects; (2) provide statistical advisement and grant workshops to faculty members engaged in behavioral and biomedical research to increase the number peer-reviewed manuscripts and grants submitted from our campus; and (3) provide guidance and mentoring from established researchers outside our campus faculty through our External Scientific Advisory Committee.