South Texas Doctoral Bridge Program

南德克萨斯博士桥梁课程

• 批准号: 8734441
• 负责人: Nicquet M.J. Blake
• 金额: $ 34.1万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HLTH SCIENCE CENTER
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-09-13 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8734441
• 关键词: Active Learning; Address; Admission activity; Area; Authorship; Bachelor' s Degree; Behavioral Sciences; Biochemistry; Biology; Biomedical Research; Chemistry; Commit; Communities; Counseling; County; Critical Thinking; Development; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor' s Degree; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Elements; Enrollment; Ensure; Experimental Designs; Exposure to; Faculty; Future; Goals; Grant; Health Sciences; Hispanics; Institution; Journals; Laboratory Research; Master' s Degree; Mentors; Oral; Outcome; Peer Review; Population; Positioning Attribute; Preparation; Publications; Qualifying; Readiness; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Training; Schools; Science; Series; South Texas; Students; Texas; Time; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Writing; abstracting; base; career; college; design; experience; graduate student; improved; journal article; meetings; member; outreach program; peer; posters; programs; public health relevance; responsible research conduct; skills; success; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UTHSCSA) and its partner in this Bridge-to the-Doctorate Program application, Texas State University-San Marcos (TxState) are located in South Texas, a region with 70% of its population designated as members of underrepresented minority (URM) populations. Both institutions are designated Hispanic-Serving Institutions and actively support and promote various outreach programs targeting URM students within South Texas. UTHSCSA, a Ph.D.-granting institution and TxState, the master's degree-granting institution (a predominantly undergraduate institution that offers only a limited number of graduate courses) propose to establish the South Texas Doctoral Bridge Program (STDBP), a cooperative partnership that aims to provide an opportunity to qualified URM students, who are capable but often not adequately prepared, to increase their academic competitiveness and preparedness for entry into, and success in top-tier Ph.D. programs. The principal goal is to increase the number of URM students that graduate with doctoral degrees and pursue biomedical research careers, by capitalizing on the substantial URM population in South Texas. This goal will be accomplished through the following Specific Aims: 1.) Increase the number of URM students completing thesis-based M.S. degrees at TxState and ready to matriculate into strong doctoral programs; 2.) Enhance the capability of the TxState Bridge Scholars to be competitive for, and gain admission into strong doctoral programs, such as the IMGP at UTHSCSA. These aims will be achieved through a series of programmatic activities, in conjunction with research experiences to be provided by dedicated faculty mentors and a revamped curriculum at TxState, that involve rigorous didactic coursework in critical thinking and experimental design, journal clubs, mentoring, workshops and continuous interactions with graduate faculty and students at UTHSCSA. Broad outcomes projected for Bridge Scholars include: 1.) M.S. degree in biochemistry/chemistry following a period of graduate coursework and high quality and significant thesis research; 2.) Competitive scores on the GRE to enhance chances of acceptance into strong doctoral programs; 3.) Participation in varied and significant research experiences and acquisition of writing and oral presentation skills necessary to communicate results of those experiences, e.g. in form of theses, platform/poster presentations at national scientific meetings and co-authorship in peer-reviewed journal articles; 4.) Continuous counseling, nurturing and mentoring support (via continuous exposure to peer URM students, STDBP alumni and successful URM faculty at UTHSCSA and at conferences) in order to build confidence necessary for success in graduate school and ultimately in biomedical research careers. We anticipate that, overall, the various elements of the STDBP will enable bridging of highly motivated URM students in TxState's M.S. program into the UTHSCSA Ph.D. or other first-rate Ph.D programs, ensuring their success in future doctoral studies and biomedical research careers.

描述(由申请人提供)：德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校健康科学中心(UTHSCSA)及其合作伙伴德克萨斯州立大学圣马科斯分校(德克萨斯州立大学)在这一申请博士学位的桥梁项目中位于德克萨斯州南部，该地区70%的人口被指定为代表不足的少数族裔(URM)。这两所学校都被指定为拉美裔服务机构，并积极支持和促进各种针对南得克萨斯州URM学生的外展计划。UTHSCSA是一家授予博士学位的机构，德克萨斯州立大学是授予硕士学位的机构(一家以本科为主的机构，只提供有限数量的研究生课程)，他们提议建立南得克萨斯州博士桥项目(STDBP)，这是一个合作伙伴关系，旨在为有能力但往往没有充分准备的合格URM学生提供机会，以提高他们的学术竞争力，为进入顶级博士项目做好准备并取得成功。主要目标是通过利用南得克萨斯州大量的URM人口，增加获得博士学位并从事生物医学研究事业的URM学生的数量。这一目标将通过以下具体目标实现：1.增加在德克萨斯州立大学完成以论文为基础的硕士学位并准备进入强大的博士项目的URM学生的数量；2)提高德克萨斯州立大学桥学者项目的竞争力，并获得强大的博士项目的录取资格，如UTHSCSA的IMGP。这些目标将通过一系列计划活动、由专职教师导师提供的研究经验和德克萨斯州立大学修改后的课程来实现，其中包括批判性思维和实验设计方面的严格教学课程、期刊俱乐部、指导、研讨会以及与UTHSCSA研究生教职员工和学生的持续互动。预计桥梁学者的广泛成果包括：1)经过一段时间的研究生课程学习和高质量、有意义的论文研究，获得生物化学/化学硕士学位；GRE的竞争性分数，以增加被优秀博士项目录取的机会；3)4.参与各种重要的研究经验，并获得交流这些经验成果所必需的写作和口头陈述技能，例如以论文、在国家科学会议上的平台/海报陈述以及在同行评议的期刊文章中合著的形式；4)持续的咨询、培养和指导支持(通过持续接触UTHSCSA的同行URM学生、STDBP校友和成功的URM教员以及在会议上)，以建立在研究生院取得成功并最终在生物医学研究职业生涯中取得成功所必需的信心。总体而言，我们预计STDBP的各种要素将使德克萨斯州立大学硕士项目中积极进取的URM学生能够进入UTHSCSA博士或其他一流的博士项目，确保他们在未来的博士学习和生物医学研究职业生涯中取得成功。