Enabling Access to Cutting-Edge Biomedical and Behavioral Science

描述（由申请人提供）：布法罗大学（UB）目前的目标之一是增加生物医学和行为科学领域代表性不足的教师、研究人员、本科生和研究生的数量。目前申请的目标是将这些领域代表性不足的研究生人数每年增加4人，在资助期间总共增加20人。这一目标将通过招收来自代表性不足的群体的学生来实现，这些学生有取得成功的动机、天赋和能力，但没有充分准备进入UB生物医学和行为科学领域的特定研究生课程(包括生物医学科学跨学科研究生课程[IGPBS]的部门，生物科学系，生物医学工程系，化学系，口腔生物学，制药科学，心理学；以及罗斯威尔公园癌症研究所研究生部)。该计划的优势将是个性化课程的设计，辅以专业发展催化剂系列课程，研究交流研讨会，以及教师和同伴辅导和指导。我们将加强导师与学生的关系，并为成功完成博士学位、竞争外部奖学金和获得培训补助金（T32）提供必要的心理和学术支持系统。通过设计，IMSD课程将提供一个整合和协作的学习氛围，以促进学生研究生课程至关重要的头五年，并使他们过渡到具有超越预期的技能的有竞争力的研究生。布法罗大学国际管理与管理学院的项目将使他们获得有竞争力的博士后研究职位，并通过提高口头和书面沟通技巧，在地方和国家会议上进行科学演讲，成为科学学会的成员和参与活动，及时发表科学发现，成功地参与毕业后的领导职位。我们预计，该计划将催化UB转变为领先的机构之一，以适应代表性不足的少数民族教学和学习需求，提供丰富，智力多样化的环境，旨在无缝整合学生和教师发展计划，这与UB2020愿景非常一致。这将通过与教务长办公室、多元文化事务多样性项目和行政官员的合作伙伴关系来实现。该计划的成功将通过同行评议的出版物和在科学会议上的演讲质量、研究和奖学金奖励、研究生在生物医学和行为科学学术界和工业界的博士后研究和领导研究职位的成功过渡、以及未被充分代表的个人申请教师职位和研究生课程数量的增加来衡量。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): One of the current goals at the University at Buffalo (UB) is to increase the number of underrepresented faculty, researchers, undergraduate, and graduate students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The goal of the current application is to increase the number of underrepresented graduate students in these areas by 4 per year, amounting to a total of 20 during the funding period. This goal will be accomplished by enrolling students from underrepresented populations who have the motivation, talent and ability to succeed, but who are not fully prepared to enter a specific graduate program in the area of biomedical and behavioral sciences at UB (including the departments of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences [IGPBS]; the Departments of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Oral Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychology; and the Graduate Division at Roswell Park Cancer Institute). The strength of the program will be the design of an individualized curriculum complemented by a Professional Development Catalyst Series course, Research Communication Workshops, and faculty and peer tutoring and mentoring. We will enhance mentor/protigi relationships and provide the essential psychosocial and academic support system for the successful completion of the PhD degree, competition for external fellowship awards, and admission to training grants (T32). IMSD programs, by design, will provide an integrated and collaborative learning atmosphere to facilitate the crucial first fe years of the students' graduate program and their transition into competitive graduate students with skills to rise beyond expectation. UB's IMSD program will gear them to secure competitive postdoctoral research positions and to successfully participate in leadership positions beyond graduation by enhancing oral and written communication skills and scientific presentations at local and national meetings, by becoming members of and participating in the activities of scientific societies and by timely publication of scientific findings. We anticipate that the progrm will catalyze UB's transformation into one of the leading institutions to adapt to underrepresented minority teaching and learning needs by providing a rich, intellectually diverse environment aimed at seamlessly integrating the student to faculty development programs which aligns well with the UB2020 vision. This will be accomplished through a collaborative partnership with the office of the provost, multicultural affairs diversity programs, and administration officials. The success of the program will be measured by the quality of peer-reviewed publications and presentations at scientific meetings, research and fellowship awards, and successful transition of our graduate students to postdoctoral research and leadership research positions in academia and industry in biomedical and behavioral science, and an increase in the number of applications for faculty positions and graduate programs from underrepresented individuals.