SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona

描述（由申请人提供）：加州理工波莫纳分校的SCORE项目旨在显著提高大学的研究能力，最终目标是增加被忽视的少数民族生物医学科学家的数量。为了实现这些目标，该计划将资助高质量的研究，从而导致同行评议的出版物，加强科学研究的基础设施，并导致从其他资金来源提交拨款申请。该计划包括15个子项目，涉及15名教师，他们对研究、研究生和本科教育有着强烈的、可证明的承诺。该项目是跨学科的，涉及来自两个不同学院的四个学术部门的教师。这些项目也多种多样，涵盖的主题从人类营养和健康到神经生理学、细胞和分子生物学、有机和生物化学。在最近的一项关于生物科学博士学位本科生来源的调查中，美国国家科学基金会将加州理工学院列为前25名“硕士学院和大学”之一。在新校长J. Michael Ortiz的领导下，大学高度重视：加强研究和其他学术活动；为学生在不断变化的多元文化世界中的生活、领导和职业生涯做好准备；促进学术卓越、教育公平和校园社区的多样性。已经制定了政策和计划，这些政策和计划将受益于加州理工学院波莫纳分校的SCORE计划的成功和影响。大学对SCORE计划的成功有着很高的承诺，承诺支付拟议研究所需的所有设备的一半，并为教师购买相应的发布时间。参与SCORE提案的院系在招收代表性不足的学生方面非常有效，其代表性不足的少数民族学生的比例高于整个大学，增长率也高于整个大学。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona is designed to significantly improve the research capabilities of the University with the ultimate objectives of increasing the number of underrepresented minority biomedical scientists. To achieve these ends the program will fund high-quality research leading to peer-reviewed publications, strengthen the infrastructure for scientific research and lead to the submission of grant applications from alternate funding sources. The program includes fifteen sub-projects involving fifteen faculty with strong, demonstrable commitments to research, and graduate and undergraduate education. The program is interdisciplinary, involving faculty from four academic departments in two different colleges. The projects are diverse as well, covering topics ranging from human nutrition and health, to neurophysiology, cellular and molecular biology, and organic and biochemistry. In a recent survey of the undergraduate origins of recent doctorates in biological sciences, NSF ranked Cal Poly as one of the top 25 "Masters Colleges and Universities." Under the leadership of a new president, J. Michael Ortiz, the University has placed high priority on: the enhancement of research and other scholarly activities; preparing students for life, leadership, and careers in a changing, multicultural world; and promoting academic excellence, educational equity, and diversity in the campus community. Policies and programs have been instituted that will benefit from and contribute to the success and impact of the SCORE program at Cal Poly, Pomona. The University has a very high level of commitment to the success of the SCORE program, committing to pay for one-half of all of the equipment needed for the proposed research and to match the release time purchased for the faculty. The departments participating in the SCORE proposal have been very effective at recruiting underrepresented students, with a higher percentage of underrepresented minority students and a more rapid growth rate than for the University as a whole.