The University of Arizona's Initiatives to Maximize Student Diversity

亚利桑那大学最大限度地提高学生多样性的举措

• 批准号: 8037760
• 负责人: Maria Teresa Velez
• 金额: $ 51.61万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2001
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2001-03-01 至 2013-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8037760
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DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Arizona (UA) seeks to continue and expand the effective implementation of a comprehensive training program to increase the number of underrepresented minority students (URMs) who enter and successfully complete doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences. It has two components: (1) an IMSD Scholars Program providing fellowships, tuition, health insurance, a "survival skills" seminar, travel to a national conference, and ongoing special mentoring and follow-up to 10 URMs per year admitted to one of 16 biomedical graduate programs at UA; and (2) a Minority Health Disparities Summer Research Opportunities Program (MHD/SROP) matching 8 UA undergraduates with experienced UA faculty to conduct full-time biomedical research for 10 weeks and learn how to prepare for graduate school and how to put together a strong graduate application. MHD/SROP also offers a weekly seminar on Minority Health Disparities because this theme has been shown by the earlier grants to greatly motivate URM students to pursue biomedical careers. Since many of our IMSD Scholars are now engaged in dissertation research related to health disparities, in this new grant we also propose to investigate how this motivates graduate URMs to finish a Ph.D. Participating students will be selected by an Advisory Committee and the Project Director and Coordinator will ensure that all NIH regulations and program requirements are met. Comprehensive program evaluations will be completed yearly by an independent evaluator. First funded in 2001, our IMSD program has helped increase by five-fold the number of URMs pursuing biomedical Ph.D.s at UA, from 16 in the year 2000 (prior to the IMSD grant) to 81 students in Fall 2007. 61 students have participated in the IMSD Scholars program during their first year of the Ph.D. and the other 20 have been supported by other training sources. Ten additional students are currently being considered for graduate admission and IMSD participation in Fall 2008. Three have already received a Ph.D. and 53 others are making satisfactory progress. Several of the Scholars would not have been admitted to the Ph.D. without IMSD support, yet they show an 87% retention rate, a much higher rate than that reported of students in the life sciences nationwide (62% according to CGS, 2005). All the Scholars who are not pursuing the Ph.D. have completed or are presently completing terminal degrees. The MHD/SROP has trained 205 undergraduates since 2001, including 54 UA MARC students, 50 of whom are already enrolled in biomedical Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D. programs.

描述（由申请人提供）：亚利桑那大学（UA）寻求继续并扩大有效实施全面的培训计划，以增加代表性不足的少数族裔学生（URMS）的数量，这些学生（URMS）进入并成功完成了生物医学科学博士学位。它有两个组成部分：（1）IMSD学者计划提供奖学金，学费，健康保险，“生存技能”研讨会，参加全国会议的旅行以及每年进行10次URMS的持续特殊指导和随访，以获得UA的16个生物医学研究生计划之一； （2）少数族裔健康差异夏季研究机会计划（MHD/SROP）与经验丰富的UA教师相匹配的8个UA本科生，以进行10周的全日制生物医学研究，并学习如何为研究生院做准备以及如何组建强大的研究生应用程序。 MHD/SROP还提供每周有关少数族裔健康差异的研讨会，因为较早的赠款已经显示了这一主题，以极大地激励URM学生从事生物医学职业。由于我们的许多IMSD学者现在都从事与健康差异有关的论文研究，因此在这项新赠款中，我们还建议研究这如何激发毕业生URMS获得博士学位。参与的学生将由咨询委员会选出，项目主任和协调员将确保满足所有NIH法规和计划要求。全面的计划评估将由独立评估员每年完成。我们的IMSD计划最初于2001年首次资助，从2000年的16年（在IMSD拨款之前）提高了UA攻读生物医学博士博士学位的URM的数量增加了五倍。在2007年秋季，有81名学生。有61名学生参加了Ph.D的第一年IMSD Scholars计划。其他20个得到了其他培训来源的支持。目前正在考虑另外十名学生参加研究生入学，并在2008年秋季参加IMSD参与。三名已经获得了博士学位。还有53个正在取得令人满意的进步。几位学者将不会被博士学位录取。没有IMSD支持，但它们显示出87％的保留率，比全国生命科学的学生报道的率要高得多（根据CGS，2005年为62％）。所有没有攻读博士学位的学者已经完成或正在完成终端学位。自2001年以来，MHD/SROP已培训了205名本科生，其中包括54名UA MARC学生，其中50名已经入学了生物医学博士学位。或MD/Ph.D。程序。