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) 寻求继续并扩大综合培训计划的有效实施，以增加进入并成功完成生物医学博士学位的少数族裔学生 (URM) 的数量。它由两个部分组成：(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，以及每年对 10 名 URM 进入 UA 16 个生物医学研究生课程之一进行持续的特别指导和跟踪； (2) 少数族裔健康差异暑期研究机会计划 (MHD/SROP)，将 8 名 UA 本科生与经验丰富的 UA 教师相匹配，进行为期 10 周的全职生物医学研究，学习如何为研究生院做准备以及如何整理一份强有力的研究生申请。 MHD/SROP 还提供每周一次的关于少数族裔健康差异的研讨会，因为这一主题已在早期拨款中得到体现，极大地激励了 URM 学生追求生物医学职业。由于我们的许多 IMSD 学者现在正在从事与健康差异相关的论文研究，在这项新拨款中，我们还建议调查这如何激励研究生 URM 完成博士学位。参与的学生将由咨询委员会选出，项目总监和协调员将确保满足 NIH 的所有法规和项目要求。综合计划评估将由独立评估员每年完成。我们的 IMSD 计划于 2001 年首次获得资助，帮助在 UA 攻读生物医学博士学位的 URM 人数增加了五倍，从 2000 年（IMSD 资助之前）的 16 名学生增加到 2007 年秋季的 81 名学生。 61 名学生在博士学位第一年参加了 IMSD 学者计划。另外 20 个项目得到了其他培训来源的支持。目前正在考虑另外 10 名学生在 2008 年秋季入学并参加 IMSD。其中三名学生已获得博士学位。另有 53 人正在取得令人满意的进展。一些学者不会被录取为博士学位。虽然没有 IMSD 支持，但他们的保留率高达 87%，远高于全国生命科学专业学生的保留率（根据 CGS，2005 年的数据为 62%）。所有不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已培养了205名本科生，其中包括54名UA MARC学生，其中50人已经在攻读生物医学博士学位。或医学博士/博士学位程序。