MBRS SCORE Program at Chicago State University

描述（由申请人提供）：位于芝加哥的南侧，芝加哥州立大学（CSU）是一所以非洲裔美国学生为主的文科公立大学。科罗拉多州立大学在伊利诺斯州-印第安纳州-洛瓦州-威斯康星州毗邻的四个州的所有公立大学中，黑人学生比例最高，在那里，它产生了最多的黑人学士学位获得者。作为一所城市综合性大学，CSU面临着教育学生的机遇和挑战，这些学生大多是在校园半径10英里内长大和接受教育的，并且是经济上处于不利地位的背景的产物，而且往往是高中教育，没有为大学水平的工作做好准备。 CSU MBRS SCORE计划是对NIH倡议的回应，该倡议旨在显着提高少数民族和少数民族服务机构的研究能力，以满足增加少数民族学生进入生物医学博士课程的人数的需求。CSU MBRS SCORE计划的定量目标是（1）增加从事生物医学研究的初级教师的数量，以及（2）增加CSU教师的生物医学研究出版物的数量。该计划的定性目标是在CSU创造一个研究环境，激励教师从事发现研究，并鼓励学生将自己的职业目标导向生物医学研究的领导岗位。 CSU计划围绕学院领导的生物学和化学研究项目组织活动。目前的计划包括八个由校长发起的研究项目，其中除了一个项目外，其余都是由过去四年内受聘的初级教师领导的。这一新的申请提议将支助的项目数目增加到14个项目和一个试点项目。资助的发现研究的增加将为少数民族学生提供额外的培训机会，从而影响进入生物医学研究职业的非洲裔美国人的数量。

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.