Short Term Training to Increase Diversity

短期培训以增加多样性

• 批准号: 8485652
• 负责人: Aladin M Boriek
• 金额: $ 6.98万
• 依托单位: BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-06-15 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8485652
• 关键词: Biomedical Research; Blood; Cardiac; Career Choice; Computational Technique; Computer Analysis; Counseling; Cryoelectron Microscopy; Data; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Activities; Educational workshop; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Health; Heart; Image; Knockout Mice; Knowledge; Laboratories; Laboratory Research; Learning; Lung; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Medical center; Medicine; Mentors; Microscopy; Monitor; Museums; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute; Participant; Photons; Preparation; Recording of previous events; Reporting; Research; Schools; Science; Scientist; Students; Surveys; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Texas; Tissue Engineering; Training; Training Programs; Visit; Vocational Guidance; Writing; base; career; career development; college; frontier; improved; meetings; member; programs; tissue reconstruction; undergraduate research

Project Summary This project builds on a successful history of a 15 STT and 23 years of the SMART summer undergraduate research program in the Graduate School of Baylor College of Medicine located in the Texas Medical Center in Houston. The objective is to inspire and prepare under-represented undergraduates to continue their education in biomedicine. The goals are (1) to introduce 10 undergraduate UR participants/year to heart, lung and blood research, including cutting edge technologies in computational techniques, imaging, tissue engineering, knock-out mouse analysis with a goal that 80% will report that being in the program encouraged them to conduct research during their career; (2) to promote more independent functioning as scientists, so that 80% will meet all goals; 3) to expand and strengthen each participant's base of scientific knowledge, including cutting edge technologies, with a goal that 80% will report a large to enormous gain in knowledge; (4) to help students improve preparation for the GRE by increasing scores by an average of 100 points on the combined verbal and quantitative sections of the exam; (5) to provide personal career counseling to help students access the next step in their training. The plan for meeting our objectives include the following strategies: (1) Placing students in productive research laboratories where they will become a part of the research team, learn new techniques, like cryoEM, 2 photon microscopy, MRI analysis, tissue engineering and computational analysis of data typically not available on their own campuses and contribute to the research effort; (2) Encouraging and monitoring the students' progress toward more independent functioning as assessed on the progress assessment form; (3) Providing research discussion groups and seminars that emphasize heart, lung and blood research and visits to several labs conducting frontier level research in imaging, cardiac tissue reconstruction and computational analysis; (4) Providing access to the SMART GRE preparatory workshops and test-prep counseling; (5) Providing information and opportunities for students to gain better perspectives on career choices through a variety of mechanisms, including a Graduate School Night, graduate school application workshops, a session on MD/Ph.D. programs and personal career counseling Progress on each objective is monitored through a variety of surveys completed by students and their mentors and analysis of brief written summaries and presentations of participants' projects.

项目概要 该项目建立在 15 年 STT 和 23 年 SMART 的成功历史基础上 贝勒学院研究生院暑期本科生研究项目 医学位于休斯敦的德克萨斯医疗中心。目标是启发 并帮助代表性不足的本科生继续接受教育 生物医学。目标是 (1) 每年引进 10 名 UR 本科生参与者 心脏、肺和血液研究，包括计算领域的尖端技术 技术、成像、组织工程、基因敲除小鼠分析，目标是 80% 将报告说，参与该计划鼓励他们在学习期间进行研究 职业; (2) 促进科学家更加独立地发挥作用，使 80% 的人能够满足 所有目标； 3）扩大和加强每个参与者的科学知识基础， 包括尖端技术，目标是 80% 的人会报告大到巨大 获得知识； (4) 帮助学生提高 GRE 准备水平 言语和定量部分的平均得分为 100 分 考试； （5）提供个人职业咨询，帮助学生进入下一步 参与他们的训练。 实现我们目标的计划包括以下策略： (1) 安置学生 在富有成效的研究实验室中，他们将成为研究团队的一部分， 学习新技术，如冷冻电镜、2 光子显微镜、MRI 分析、组织 数据的工程和计算分析通常无法单独获得 校园并为研究工作做出贡献； （二）鼓励和监督 根据进展评估，学生在更加独立地发挥功能方面取得的进展 评估表； (3) 提供研究讨论小组和研讨会 强调心脏、肺和血液研究，并参观多个前沿实验室 成像、心脏组织重建和计算分析方面的水平研究； (4) 提供参加 SMART GRE 准备研讨会和考试准备咨询的机会； （5）为学生提供更好的信息和机会 通过各种机制进行职业选择，包括研究生院之夜， 研究生院申请研讨会，MD/Ph.D 会议。计划和个人 职业咨询 每个目标的进展情况均通过各种调查进行监测 学生及其导师以及对简短书面总结和演示的分析 参与者的项目。