MBRS SCORE Program at Chicago State University

芝加哥州立大学 MBRS SCORE 项目

• 批准号: 7250950
• 负责人: Rachel W. Lindsey
• 金额: $ 78.13万
• 依托单位: CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-06-01 至 2011-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7250950
• 关键词: MBRS; SCORE; Program; Chicago; State

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Located on the south-side of Chicago, Chicago State University (CSU) is a liberal arts, public institution with a predominantly African-American student body. CSU serves the highest proportion of Black students of all public universities in the Illinois-lndiana-lowa-Wisconsin contiguous four-state region where it produces the largest number of Black baccalaureate degree recipients. As an urban comprehensive university, CSU faces both the opportunity and the challenge of educating students who are mostly raised and educated within a ten-mile radius of the campus and are products of both an economically disadvantaged background and often a high school education which has not prepared them for college-level work. The CSU MBRS SCORE program is a response to the NIH initiative to improve significantly the research capabilities of minority and minority-serving institutions as a means to address the need to increase the numbers of minority students entering doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. The quantitative goals of the CSU MBRS SCORE program are (1) to increase the number of junior faculty engaged in biomedical research, and (2) to increase the number of biomedical research publications from CSU teaching faculty. The qualitative goal of the Program is to create a research environment at CSU which stimulates faculty to engage in discovery research and which, by example, encourages students to direct their career goals to leadership positions in biomedical research. The CSU program organizes its activities around faculty-led research projects in biology and chemistry. The current Program consists of eight investigator-initiated research projects of which all but one is led by junior faculty who have been hired within the past four years. This new application proposes an increase in the number of projects supported to 14 projects and one pilot project. This increase in funded discovery research will provide additional training opportunities for minority students and will thereby impact the number of African-Americans entering careers in biomedical research.

描述（由申请人提供）：芝加哥州立大学（CSU）位于芝加哥南侧，是一所以非裔美国学生为主的文科公共机构。在伊利诺斯州-印第安纳州-爱荷华州-威斯康辛州连续四州地区的所有公立大学中，科罗拉多州立大学的黑人学生比例最高，培养出最多的黑人学士学位获得者。作为一所城市综合性大学，科罗拉多州立大学面临着教育学生的机遇和挑战，这些学生大多是在校园十英里半径内长大和受教育的，他们的经济背景很差，而且往往是高中教育，没有为大学水平的工作做好准备。