Strides Toward Encouraging Professions In Science

朝着鼓励科学职业的方向迈进

• 批准号: 7209794
• 负责人: ROSEMARIE DePoy WALKER
• 金额: $ 18.76万
• 依托单位: METROPOLITAN STATE UNIVERSITY OF DENVER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-01 至 2009-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7209794
• 关键词: Strides; Toward; Encouraging; Professions; Science

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Strides Toward Encouraging Professions in Science (STEPS) is a collaborative effort by Community College of Denver (CCD), Community College of Aurora (CCA) and Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD) with assistance from the Graduate School of the University of Colorado Health Science Center (UCHSC). The goals of the STEPS program are 1) to increase the number of community college students, from historically under-represented minorities (URM) in biomedical research, who declare majors that are likely to lead to careers in biomedical research 2) to increase the number of URM community college students, who complete the AS degree and transfer to a 4 yr college, preferably MSCD. 3) to increase the number of URM college students who complete the BS degree and go on to pursue a graduate degree, preferably at UCHSC. While this third goal is not strictly supported by the NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate program, it is certainly the ultimately goal of the Bridges to the Future Initiatives and always in the minds of our program staff. Students in the STEPS program are supported academically primarily through tutoring, while being exposed to extracurricular enrichment activities designed to introduce them to the culture of the biomedical research community. The students participate in a scientific literacy seminar aka "The Journal Club" where they learn to read and discuss primary literature. The students must participate in the Introduction to Biomedical Research Seminar to master a variety of skills that will be useful to them in their internships. Depending on each student's interest and ability, they will either be placed with a research group at UCHSC or will work with a MSCD, CCD or CCA professor on the Aurora or Lowry campus for a 160 to 320 hr internship. Travel to scientific conferences is supported both for students early in their participation in the program, again so they may become accustomed to the culture of research scientists, and later so that they may have the experience of sharing the research they have done during their internship in the form of a poster presentation. STEPS alumni have made significant contributions in the research labs they've worked and future students will do the same, hopefully some will make contributions of their own in the future in their own research groups.

描述（由申请人提供）：STEPS是丹佛社区学院（CCD）、奥罗拉社区学院（CCA）和丹佛大都会州立学院（MSCD）在科罗拉多大学健康科学中心研究生院（UCHSC）的协助下共同努力的项目。STEPS计划的目标是1)增加社区大学学生的数量，这些学生来自历史上代表性不足的生物医学研究少数民族（URM），他们宣布的专业可能会导致生物医学研究的职业生涯2)增加URM社区大学学生的数量，他们完成AS学位并转学到四年制大学，最好是msc。3)增加完成学士学位并继续攻读研究生学位的URM大学生人数，最好是在ucchsc。虽然这第三个目标并没有得到NIH通往学士学位项目的严格支持，但它肯定是通往未来倡议的最终目标，并且一直在我们项目人员的心中。STEPS项目的学生在学术上主要通过辅导得到支持，同时还参加课外丰富活动，旨在向他们介绍生物医学研究界的文化。学生们参加一个科学素养研讨会，又名“期刊俱乐部”，在那里他们学习阅读和讨论原始文献。学生必须参加生物医学研究导论研讨会，以掌握各种对他们实习有用的技能。根据每个学生的兴趣和能力，他们将被安排在ucchsc的一个研究小组中，或者与奥罗拉或洛瑞校区的MSCD、CCD或CCA教授一起进行160至320小时的实习。参加科学会议的旅行在学生早期参与项目时得到支持，这样他们就可以习惯研究科学家的文化，然后他们就可以有经验分享他们在实习期间所做的研究，以海报的形式展示。STEPS的校友在他们工作的研究实验室中做出了重大贡献，未来的学生也会这样做，希望一些人将来在他们自己的研究小组中做出自己的贡献。