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
• 关键词: Admission activity; Advisory Committees; American Indians; Arizona; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Cognitive; Collaborations; Commit; Communities; Country; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ensure; Ethics; Evaluation; Faculty; Fellowship; Funding; Grant; Growth; Health; Health Insurance; Hispanic Americans; Hispanics; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Immunobiology; Institutes; Institution; Knowledge; Laboratories; Learning; Letters; Link; Mentors; Minority; Motivation; NCI Scholars Program; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Native Americans; Participant; Preparation; Program Evaluation; Psychology; Regulation; Reporting; Research; Research Training; Resources; Risk-Taking; Schedule; Schools; Science; Scientist; Source; Students; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training Support; Transcript; Travel; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Work; Writing; career; college; cost; experience; falls; follow-up; graduate student; health disparity; interest; meetings; minority health; peer; programs; public health relevance; relating to nervous system; skills; success; symposium; tribal college

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）寻求继续并扩大全面培训计划的有效实施，以增加进入并成功完成生物医学科学博士学位的少数族裔学生（urm）的数量。它有两个组成部分：(1)IMSD学者计划，提供奖学金、学费、医疗保险、“生存技能”研讨会、参加全国会议的旅行，以及每年对10名进入UA 16个生物医学研究生项目之一的urm进行持续的特别指导和跟踪；(2)少数民族健康差异暑期研究机会计划（MHD/SROP），将8名亚利桑那大学本科生与经验丰富的亚利桑那大学教师配对，进行为期10周的全日制生物医学研究，学习如何为研究生院做准备，以及如何提交一份强有力的研究生申请。MHD/SROP还每周举办一次关于少数民族健康差距的研讨会，因为这一主题已经在早期的资助中得到证明，可以极大地激励URM学生从事生物医学事业。由于我们的许多IMSD学者现在从事与健康差异相关的论文研究，在这项新的资助中，我们还建议调查这如何激励研究生urm完成博士学位。参与学生将由咨询委员会选出，项目主任和协调员将确保所有NIH法规和项目要求得到满足。综合项目评估将由独立评估机构每年完成一次。我们的IMSD项目于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名学生在攻读博士学位的第一年参加了IMSD学者项目，另外20名学生得到了其他培训来源的支持。另外10名学生目前正在考虑2008年秋季的研究生入学和IMSD的参与。已有3人获得博士学位，另有53人正在取得令人满意的进展。如果没有IMSD的支持，其中一些学者可能无法获得博士学位，但他们的保留率为87%，远高于全国生命科学学生的保留率（根据CGS， 2005年的数据为62%）。所有未攻读博士学位的学者均已完成或正在完成最终学位。自2001年以来，MHD/SROP已经培训了205名本科生，其中包括54名UA MARC学生，其中50人已经注册攻读生物医学博士或医学博士/博士学位。项目。