The UA Undergraduate Summer Research Opportunities Program: Increasing Diversity

描述(由申请人提供)： 亚利桑那大学研究生院寻求NHLBI的支持，继续为生物学专业的本科生提供非常成功的夏季研究培训计划。暑期研究机会计划旨在通过介绍这些学生在在这些领域工作的经验丰富的UA教师的指导下从事肺病、心血管疾病和血液疾病的研究，通过让他们参加关于某些疾病和障碍对某些人群的影响不成比例的生物医学研究讲座，通过提高学生口头和通过海报介绍他们的研究的技能，并通过在研究生院申请过程中提供广泛的援助，包括GRE准备研讨会，来增加在生物医学领域攻读博士学位的人数。具体地说，我们正在申请资金，以支持40名人数不足的本科生，在助学金的每一年中，参与为期十周的暑期密集研究体验，在他们三年级和四年级之间的暑期。SROP成立于五年前，旨在为HSI、HBCU和拥有大量低收入第一代学生的地区机构的学生提供研究机会，已经为全国顶尖大学的博士生项目的31名参与者做出了贡献。这也有助于UA大幅增加生物医学领域博士项目中代表性不足的学生数量，从2001年的20名学生增加到2005年秋季的63名学生，增幅为300%。该计划还表明，对某些群体影响不成比例的疾病和障碍的关注，刺激了来自这些背景的年轻人进行夏季研究，并最终在生物医学领域从事职业生涯(摘要结束)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Arizona's Graduate College seeks NHLBI support to continue a very successful summer research training program for underrepresented undergraduates with majors in biology. The Summer Research Opportunities Program aims to increase the number of underrepresented students who pursue Ph.D.s in biomedical science by introducing these students to research in pulmonary, heart and vascular, and blood diseases and disorders under the supervision of highly experienced UA faculty working in these areas, by exposing them to lectures on biomedical research on diseases and disorders affecting certain populations disproportionately, by increasing the students skills in presenting their research orally and through a poster, and by providing extensive assistance in the graduate school application process including a GRE Preparation workshop. Specifically, we are requesting funding to support 40 underrepresented undergraduate students, 10 in each year of the grant, to engage in a ten-week intensive summer research experience during the summer between their junior and senior years. SROP, started five years ago to provide research opportunities to students from HSIs, HBCUs and regional institutions with large populations of low income, first generation students, already has contributed to the enrollment of 31-participants in Ph.D. programs at top universities throughout the country. It has also contributed to the UA's ability to dramatically increase the number of underrepresented students in Ph.D. programs in biomedical areas, an increase from 20 students in 2001 to 63 students in fall 2005, a 300% increase. This program has also shown that a focus on diseases and disorders that affect certain groups disproportionately, stimulates young people from these backgrounds to pursue summer research and eventually careers in biomedical areas (End of Abstract)