Michigan Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program

描述(由申请人提供)：密歇根大学将设立一个本科毕业后研究教育计划(PREP)，以提高少数族裔学生被优秀博士(博士)录取的能力。在全国的生物和生物医学学科的项目。密歇根大学长期以来一直鼓励本科生从事研究工作，近年来，由于致力于招收多样化和有才华的学生，密歇根大学获得了全国的关注。在生物科学方面，密歇根大学和其他地方的本科生有广泛的研究机会，强大和协调的生物科学研究生项目取得了成功，招收和毕业了多样化的学生群体。然而，在我们的研究生申请和全国各地的招聘旅行中，我们经常会遇到一些学生，由于各种原因，他们还没有完全准备好进入强大的研究生课程并取得成功，但可能会有特定类型的进一步准备。密歇根预科学校的设立将为来自全国各地的有前途的学生提供必要的准备，使他们既能成功申请优秀的研究生课程，又能在被录取后取得成功。 所描述的项目直接与美国国立卫生研究院宣布的PREP计划的目标相吻合。来自几个族裔和种族背景的学生在研究人类健康问题的博士级别的研究职位上的代表性严重不足。密歇根大学的预科课程为学生提供了在医学院、公共卫生、工程(生物医学)、药学、运动学和牙科等多个不同学科攻读研究生的机会。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) will be created at the University of Michigan to increase the ability of underrepresented minority students to be accepted into excellent doctoral (Ph.D.) programs in the biological and biomedical disciplines throughout the country. The University of Michigan has long had a strong history of encouraging undergraduates toward research careers and in recent years has gained national attention through its commitment to recruiting a diverse and talented student population. In the biosciences, there are extensive research opportunities for undergraduates from UM and elsewhere and strong and coordinated bioscience graduate programs that have been successful and recruiting and graduating a diverse student body. However, in our graduate applications and recruiting travels throughout the country we frequently encounter students who, for a variety of reasons, are not yet quite prepared to matriculate and succeed in strong graduate programs, but could be with specific types of further preparation. The creation of a PREP at Michigan would provide promising students from around the country with the needed preparation to both successfully apply to strong graduate programs and to succeed once they matriculate. The described project speaks directly to the objectives of the PREP program announcement from the NIH. Students from several ethnic and racial backgrounds are severely underrepresented in PhD-level research positions that address issues of human health. The Michigan PREP provides students with opportunities to prepare themselves for graduate school in a wide range of different disciplines in the Schools of Medicine, Public Health, Engineering (Biomedical), Pharmacy, Kinesiology, and Dentistry.