Bridges to the Doctorate between UDC and LCCC

描述（由申请人提供）：哥伦比亚特区大学（UDC）和乔治城大学医学中心，伦巴第综合癌症中心（LCCC）提议建立一个通往博士学位的桥梁，该桥梁将建立在NH/NCI P20和U56资助下目前存在的成功合作伙伴关系的基础上。UDC和LCCC联合教授癌症生物学、预防和控制硕士学位课程，这是U56基金的一个成果。为了帮助减轻哥伦比亚特区沉重的癌症负担，硕士学位课程的建立是为了提供有竞争力的少数民族学生，他们将获得LCCC或类似机构肿瘤生物学项目的录取。根据美国国立卫生研究院对博士课程桥梁的要求，我们提出以下目标来增强学生的概念学习和技能：(1)通过启动课程增强活动来开发和实施高度竞争的课程，这些活动涉及技术的使用、社区外展、课堂环境中的专业专家和基于研究的教学。(2)通过让学生参加科学会议、研究技能讲习班、杰出讲座和相关研讨会来提高学生的学习成绩。每个学生都将成为其中一个过渡兴趣小组（TRIGs）的成员，该小组为学生提供机会接受来自两所大学的高级学生和教师的指导。(3)为每位硕士生提供在乔治城大学研究密集型实验室进行暑期研究的机会。第二个目标是通过STEM（科学、技术、工程与数学/NSF）研究与培训中心和HCOP（健康职业）与UDC生物与环境科学系合作，建立一个硕士预科项目，该项目不需要资金

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of the District of Columbia (UDC) and the Georgetown University Medical Center, Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center (LCCC) propose to establish a Bridges to the Doctorate that will be built upon the successful partnership that currently exist due to NH/NCI P20 and U56 funding. A UDC Masters Degree Program in Cancer Biology, Prevention and Control, an outgrowth from the U56 grant, is jointly taught by UDC and LCCC. To help alleviate the heavy cancer burden the impacts the District of Columbia, the Masters Degree Program was established to provide competitive minorities students who will gain admission to the Tumor Biology Program at LCCC or similar institutions. Consistent with the NIH requirements for the Bridges to the Doctorate Program, we propose the following objectives to augment the students conceptual leaning and skills: (1) To develop and implement a highly competitive curriculum by initiating curricular enhancement activities that address the use of technology, community outreach, professional experts in a classroom setting, and research-based instruction. (2) To improve the academic performance of students by having them attend scientific meetings, research skills workshops, distinguished lectures, and relevant seminars. Each student will become a member of one of the Transition Interest Groups (TRIGs) which provide opportunities for students to receive mentoring from upper level students and faculty from both institutions. (3) To provide each Masters Degree student with a summer research experience in a research-intensive laboratory at Georgetown University. A secondary objective, for which funds are not requested, will establish a Pre-Masters Program by working in conjunction with the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at UDC through the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics /NSF) Research and Training Center and the HCOP (Health Careers Opportunity Program /HRSA) to increase the number of well prepared students majoring in Biology and to provide a pool of students for the Masters and the Bridges to the Doctorate Programs. The goal of the Bridges to the Doctorate Program is to graduate from the Masters Program, students who are able to gain admission to LCCC or similar institution and eventually become biomedical scientists best suited to translate cancer biology, prevention and control methods into research that will help alleviate the heavy cancer burden impacting minority populations.