Short Term Training to Increase Diversity

项目摘要 该项目建立在15个STT和23年SMART的成功历史之上 贝勒大学研究生院暑期本科研究项目 位于休斯顿的德克萨斯医疗中心的医学。目标是激发 并准备代表性不足的本科生继续他们的教育， 生物医药目标是：（1）每年引进10名大学本科生， 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，敲除小鼠分析，目标是80% 将报告说，在该计划鼓励他们进行研究期间， （2）促进科学家更独立地发挥作用，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%的人将报告一个大到巨大的 （4）帮助学生提高GRE考试的准备， 在口头和定量部分的平均得分为100分 （5）提供个人职业生涯辅导，帮助学生顺利进入下一个 在他们的训练中。 为实现我们的目标，计划包括以下策略：（1）安置学生 在生产研究实验室，他们将成为研究团队的一部分， 学习新技术，如cryoEM，双光子显微镜，MRI分析，组织 数据的工程和计算分析通常无法单独获得 （2）鼓励和监督研究工作; 学生朝着更独立运作的进展， （3）提供研究讨论小组和研讨会， 强调心脏，肺和血液研究，并参观了几个实验室进行前沿 在成像、心脏组织重建和计算分析方面的水平研究;（4） 提供SMART GRE预备研讨会和考试准备咨询的机会; (5)为学生提供信息和机会，以获得更好的观点， 通过各种机制进行职业选择，包括研究生之夜， 研究生院申请研讨会，MD/Ph.D.会议。程序和个人 职业咨询 每项目标的进展情况都是通过下列机构完成的各种调查来监测的： 学生和他们的导师和简要的书面总结和介绍的分析， 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.