MBRS SCORE Program at Chicago State University

芝加哥州立大学 MBRS SCORE 项目

• 批准号: 7495098
• 负责人: Rachel W. Lindsey
• 金额: $ 60.89万
• 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/7495098
• 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(由申请者提供)：芝加哥州立大学(CSU)位于芝加哥南部，是一所以非裔美国学生为主的文科公立院校。在伊利诺伊州-印第安纳州-爱荷华州-威斯康星州毗邻的四个州地区，CSU为所有公立大学的黑人学生提供最高比例的服务，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既面临着培养学生的机遇，也面临着挑战。这些学生大多是在校园半径十英里范围内长大和接受教育的，他们既有经济困难的背景，又往往是高中教育，他们还没有为大学水平的工作做好准备。 CSU MBRS评分计划是对NIH倡议的回应，该倡议旨在显著提高少数族裔和为少数族裔服务的机构的研究能力，以满足增加少数族裔学生进入生物医学博士课程的需求。CSU MBRS评分计划的量化目标是(1)增加从事生物医学研究的初级教员的数量，以及(2)增加CSU教师发表的生物医学研究出版物的数量。该计划的质量目标是在CSU创造一个研究环境，激励教师从事发现研究，并通过榜样鼓励学生将他们的职业目标导向生物医学研究的领导职位。 CSU项目围绕教职员工主导的生物和化学研究项目来组织活动。目前的计划包括八个由研究人员发起的研究项目，除了一个项目外，所有项目都由过去四年内聘用的初级教员领导。这一新申请提议将支持的项目数量增加到14个项目和1个试点项目。这一发现研究资金的增加将为少数族裔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生涯的非裔美国人的数量。