Bridging Masters Students to the Ph.D.

描述(由申请人提供)：我们衔接计划的持续目标是培养和发展有才华的少数族裔硕士学生，使他们能够进入并成功完成德克萨斯大学医学部(UTMB)的生物医学博士学位。我们在最初的筹资期间取得了巨大进展。在最初的两年里，我们已经招收了5名博士生和10多名布里奇斯硕士项目的学生。我们提议的继续项目的主要特点将是广泛的校园互动，以整合MS和博士项目，保证入学和博士培训津贴，以及几乎仅在MS校园使用赠款资源。我们提议的新功能包括增加中央加勒比大学(UCC)作为新的合作伙伴，我们的T32项目主任同意任命布里奇斯的学生，加强了广泛的正式和非正式指导，并提供活动让布里奇斯的学生形成一个有凝聚力的可识别的校园小组。除了UCC外，我们的合作学校还包括位于德克萨斯州南部的三所学校，这三所学校的少数民族学生入学率很高，提供终端硕士课程，并且拥有研究兴趣，这使得富有成效的合作伙伴关系变得显而易见和确定。 该项目在下一个资助阶段的具体目标是：1。保证同时录取布里奇斯理工学院和UTMB博士项目。2.扩展布里奇斯合作学校，将巴黎中央大学包括在内。3.为布里奇斯学生提供多层次全面的正式和非正式咨询和咨询4.为布里奇斯学生提供校园活动，以增强团队凝聚力，同时增强他们的发展和技能，使他们能够成功完成博士课程，并在生物医学科学领域竞争职业。 5.增加硕士学生在UTMB进行部分论文研究的机会，同时促进研究合作，提高硕士院校的研究能力。 6.为所有硕士和博士生扩展成熟的科学诚信正规课程7.为布里奇斯项目中的MS和博士生扩展具体目标，并跟踪可衡量的项目成果。 该计划的主要成果将是：1)少数民族学生更多地从硕士项目过渡到生物医学博士；2)成功和自信的学生完成博士学位并进入生物医学职业生涯；3)MS合作伙伴教职员工与UTMB教职员工和研究机构之间的互动增强，以改善合作大学的研究能力和基础设施。我们衔接计划的持续目标是培养和发展有才华的少数族裔硕士学生，使他们能够进入并成功完成德克萨斯大学医学部(UTMB)的生物医学博士学位。这将与四个拥有大量少数族裔人口的机构合作进行，这些机构将招收有才华的少数族裔学生并向他们提供奖学金。因此，该项目包括支持和促进少数族裔学生从硕士项目向生物医学博士项目过渡的伙伴关系，2)集中精力和资源，使合作的硕士机构及其学生受益，3)增强硕士学生的竞争力和信心，使他们能够成功完成博士学位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The continuing goal of our Bridging program is to train and develop talented underrepresented minority master's students to enable them to enter and successfully complete a biomedical Ph.D. at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). We have had made tremendous progress in the initial funding period. In the first two years, we have enrolled 5 students into the doctoral program and over 10 in Bridges MS programs. Key features of our proposed continuing program will be extensive campus interactions to integrate the MS and doctoral programs, guaranteed admission and stipends for doctoral training, and utilization of grant resources almost exclusively on the MS campuses. New features we are proposing include adding Universidad Central del Caribe (UCC) as a new partner, agreements from our T32 program directors to appoint Bridges students, enhanced extensive formal and informal mentoring and providing activities to allow Bridges students to form a cohesive identifiable campus group. Our partnering schools in addition to UCC include three schools located in south Texas that have a high minority student enrollment, offer a terminal master's program and have research interests that make a productive partnership obvious and certain. The specific aims of the program for the next funding period are to:1. Guarantee simultaneously admission into the Bridges MS and UTMB doctoral programs. 2. Expand the Bridges partnering schools to include the Universidad Central del Caribe, PR 3. Provide multi-level comprehensive formal and informal advising & counseling for Bridges students 4. Provide on-campus activities to Bridges students to increase group cohesiveness, while enhancing their development and building skills that will enable them to successfully complete a doctoral program and compete for careers in the biomedical sciences. 5. Enhance opportunities for MS students to conduct part of their thesis research at UTMB, while fostering research collaborations and enhancing the research capabilities of the master's institutions. 6. Expand well-established formal coursework in scientific integrity for all master's and doctoral students 7. Expand specific goals for both MS and doctoral students in the Bridges program and track measurable program outcomes. Key outcomes from the program will be: 1) increased transition of minority students from a master's program to a biomedical Ph.D.; 2) successful and confident students completing the Ph.D. and emerging into biomedical careers ; 3) enhanced interaction between the MS partner faculty with faculty and research facilities at UTMB to improve the research capabilities and infrastructure at the partnering universities. The continuing goal of our Bridging program is to train and develop talented underrepresented minority master's students to enable them to enter and successfully complete a biomedical Ph.D. at the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB). This will be done in cooperation with four institutions with large minority populations that will recruit talented minority students and provide them with fellowships. This program thus consists of a partnership that supports and facilitates the transition of minority students from a master's program to biomedical PhD programs, 2) focuses effort and resources to benefit largely the partnering master's institution and its students, and 3) enhances the competitiveness and confidence of the master's students so they can successfully complete the PhD.