Chaminade University BRIC Project

查米纳德大学是一个独特的，联邦指定的夏威夷土著服务机构，定位于在太平洋地区的教育和社区发展领先。我们教育学生在生物医学和行为科学的职业生涯。随着严格的培训和参与的机会，从研究导向的本科课程，我们的学生将成为高度准备的年轻科学家和健康从业者。他们将促进研究和实践，以改善健康，减少健康差距，在太平洋岛屿社区。Chaminade BRIC将使我们的大学能够实现以下目标：（1）教育和授权下一代学生，主要来自夏威夷和太平洋地区，成为寻求解决家乡社区疾病和医疗保健获取差异的研究人员和从业人员;（2）支持来自Chaminade和合作机构的教师研究人员骨干，其项目围绕潜在的疾病机制和病理流行病学进行主题调整，这些疾病对夏威夷和太平洋地区的少数民族人口产生了不成比例的影响;和（3）成为一个文化意识中心，夏威夷土著/太平洋岛屿社区与教师和学生合作，促进社区参与研究，促进知情的宣传，确保社区优先事项和文化考虑与研究议程的无缝结合。Chaminade面临着重大的制度挑战，RIMI的应用将使我们能够解决这些挑战。我们是一个依赖学费的大学，有一个小的捐赠，我们寻求服务的学生谁是非常容易从高等教育减员，由于学术准备不足和压倒性的社会经济障碍。我们的具体目标是在行政和能力建设，研究教师发展，学生学术充实计划，共享研究资源以及改建和翻新等领域建立活动核心。这些核心的共同努力将使Chaminade能够充分发挥其在教育和研究方面的潜力。

Chaminade University is a unique, Federally-designated Native Hawaiian-serving institution that is positioned to lead in education and community development in the Pacific region. We educate students for careers in biomedical and behavioral sciences. With the rigorous training and engagement opportunities that derive from a research-directed undergraduate curriculum, our students will emerge as highly prepared young scientists and health practitioners. They will contribute to research and practice that will improve health, and reduce health disparities, in Pacific Island communities. The Chaminade BRIC will position our University to address the following goals: (1) educate and empower the next generation of students, primarily from Hawaii and the Pacific, to be researchers and practitioners who seek to address disease and healthcare access disparities in their home communities; (2) support a cadre of faculty researchers, from Chaminade and partner institutions, whose programs are thematically aligned around the underlying disease mechanisms and the epidemiology of pathologies that disproportionately affect minority populations in Hawaii and the Pacific; and (3) become a culturally aware center where Native Hawaiian/Pacific Island communities are engaged with faculty and students to promote community participation in research, promote informed advocacy and ensure the seamless integration of community priorities and cultural considerations with research agendas. Chaminade faces significant institutional challenges that this RIMI application will enable us to address. We are a tuition-dependent University with a small endowment, and we seek to serve students who are highly vulnerable to attrition from higher education, due to academic under-preparedness and over-whelming socioeconomic barriers. Our Specific Aims are to establish Cores of activity in the areas of Administrative and Capacity Building, Research Faculty Development, Academic Enrichment Programs for Students, Shared Research Resources and Alterations and Renovations. The concerted efforts of these Cores will enable Chaminade to realize its full potential in education and research.