Enabling Access to Cutting-Edge Biomedical and Behavioral Science

描述（由申请人提供）：在布法罗大学（UB）目前的目标之一是增加代表性不足的教师，研究人员，本科生和研究生在生物医学和行为科学的数量。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人群的学生来实现，这些学生有动机，才能和成功的能力，但没有完全准备好进入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、口腔生物学系、药物科学系、心理学系;以及罗斯韦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行辅导和指导。我们将加强导师/protigi的关系，并提供必要的心理和学术支持系统的博士学位的成功完成，竞争外部奖学金，并录取培训赠款（T32）。IMSD计划，通过设计，将提供一个综合和协作的学习氛围，以促进学生的研究生课程的关键的第一年，他们过渡到有竞争力的研究生与技能超越预期。UB的IMSD计划将使他们能够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以及在当地和国家会议上的科学演讲，成为科学协会的成员并参与科学协会的活动，并及时发表科学发现，成功地参与毕业后的领导职位。我们预计，progrm将催化UB的转变为领先的机构之一，以适应代表性不足的少数民族的教学和学习需求，通过提供一个丰富的，智力多样化的环境，旨在无缝集成的学生教师发展计划，以及对齐与UB 2020愿景。这将通过与教务长办公室，多元文化事务多样性计划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审的出版物和科学会议，研究和奖学金奖励，以及我们的研究生在学术界和工业界的博士后研究和领导力研究职位的成功过渡的质量来衡量生物医学和行为科学，以及来自代表性不足的个人的教师职位和研究生课程的申请数量的增加。

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.