Enabling Access to Cutting-Edge Biomedical and Behavioral Science

描述（由申请人提供）：布法罗大学 (UB) 当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。当前申请的目标是每年将这些领域代表性不足的研究生人数增加 4 人，在资助期间总数达到 20 人。这一目标将通过招收来自弱势群体的学生来实现，这些学生有动力、天赋和能力取得成功，但尚未完全准备好进入布法罗大学生物医学和行为科学领域的特定研究生课程（包括生物医学跨学科研究生项目 [IGPBS] 系；生物科学系、生物医学工程系、化学系、口腔生物学系、制药科学系、心理学系；以及罗斯威尔帕克癌症研究所研究生部）。该项目的优势在于个性化课程的设计，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关系，并为成功完成博士学位、竞争外部奖学金以及获得培训补助金（T32）提供必要的社会心理和学术支持系统。 IMSD 项目的设计将提供一个综合和协作的学习氛围，以促进学生研究生课程关键的头几年以及他们转变为具有超越预期技能的有竞争力的研究生。布法罗大学的IMSD项目将帮助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以及在地方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以及及时发表科学发现，在毕业后成功参与领导职位。我们预计，该项目将通过提供丰富的、智力多元化的环境，将学生与教师发展项目无缝整合，从而与 UB2020 愿景相契合，从而促进布法罗大学转变为领先机构之一，以适应代表性不足的少数族裔的教学和学习需求。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完成。该计划的成功将通过科学会议上同行评审的出版物和演讲的质量、研究和奖学金奖项、我们的研究生成功过渡到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，以及代表性不足的个人申请教职和研究生项目的数量增加来衡量。

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.