Partnership for Minority Science Education (PMSE)

描述（由申请人提供）：领导力联盟的总体目标是通过研究生培训和专业学徒制，识别、培训和建立年轻的、未被充分代表的少数民族科学家的网络，以竞争科学院的职位。“少数民族科学教育伙伴关系”（PMSE）项目对这一总体目标的贡献是增加在科学研究生项目中代表性不足的少数民族的人数。该提案的五个具体目标是：1)招募多样化的研究型本科生作为项目参与者；2)在学术学者社区提供高质量的暑期研究经验；3)向项目参与者介绍研究专业的背景；4)监督研究生入学和完成研究项目的人数；5)评价

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the Leadership Alliance is to identify, train and network young underrepresented minority scientists in and through graduate training and professional apprenticeships to compete for positions in the academy. The contribution of the Partnership for Minority Science Education (PMSE) program to this overall goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in graduate programs in the sciences. The five specific aims of the proposal are to: 1) Recruit Diverse, Research-Oriented Undergraduates as Program Participants; 2) Provide High Quality, Summer Research Experiences in the Community of Academic Scholars; 3) Provide Program Participants with an Introduction to the Context of the Research Professions; 4) Monitor the Number of Students Who Enter and Complete Graduate Research Programs; 5) Evaluate Program Outcomes and Disseminate Best Practices. Specifically, we are seeking support for ancillary training activities of 120 students per year in biomedical and behavioral sciences majors relevant to biomedicine from 7/1/2006 to 6/30/2011. In addition, this proposal seeks partial funding for a comprehensive formative and summative evaluation of the PMSE project, support for initiatives for Alliance research mentors, and partial support for the Alliance Executive Office staff. Our efforts, through PMSE, are intended to provide encouragement to students who aspire to obtain a Ph.D. to result in their greater acceptance to and persistence in competitive graduate programs across the country.