Short Term Training to Increase Diversity

项目摘要 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 位于休斯敦的德克萨斯医疗中心。其目的是激励人们 并为代表不足的本科生做好继续教育的准备 生物医学。目标是(1)每年引进10名本科生UR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% Will报告说，参加该计划鼓励他们在他们的 职业生涯；(2)促进科学家更独立地发挥作用，使80%的人 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%的人将报告 增加知识；(4)帮助学生提高准备GRE的能力 在语言和数量部分的综合得分平均为100分 考试；(5)提供个人职业咨询，帮助学生进入下一阶段 参与他们的训练。 实现我们目标的计划包括以下策略：(1)安排学生 在生产性研究实验室中，他们将成为研究团队的一部分， 学习新技术，如低温电子显微镜、双光子显微镜、核磁共振分析、组织 对数据进行工程和计算分析，这些数据本身通常不可用 并为研究工作作出贡献；(2)鼓励和监督 学生走向更独立运作的进展情况 评估表；(3)提供研究讨论小组和研讨会， 重视心肺和血液研究，参观多个前沿实验室 影像、心脏组织重建和计算分析的水平研究；(4) 提供进入智能GRE准备讲习班和备考咨询的机会； (5)提供资讯和机会，让学生更好地了解 通过各种机制选择职业，包括研究生院之夜， 研究生院申请工作坊，MD/博士课程和个人 职业咨询 通过由以下机构完成的各种调查来监测每项目标的进展情况 学生和他们的导师以及对以下内容的简要书面总结和演示的分析 参与者的项目。

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.