Enabling Access to Cutting-Edge Biomedical and Behavioral Science

描述(由申请人提供)：布法罗大学(UB)目前的目标之一是增加生物医学和行为科学方面代表性不足的教职员工、研究人员、本科生和研究生的数量。目前申请的目标是使这些领域任职人数偏低的研究生人数每年增加4人，在供资期间总计达到20人。这一目标将通过招收有成功动机、天赋和能力，但没有做好充分准备进入亚利桑那大学生物医学和行为科学领域的特定研究生课程的学生来实现(包括生物医学科学跨学科研究生项目[IGPBS]；生物科学系、生物医学工程系、化学系、口腔生物学系、药学系、心理学系；以及罗斯威尔公园癌症研究所的研究生部)。该计划的优势将是个性化课程的设计，并辅之以专业发展催化剂系列课程、研究交流研讨会以及教师和同行辅导和辅导。我们将加强导师/Protigi关系，并为成功完成博士学位、竞争外部奖学金和获得培训补助金(T32)提供必要的心理社会和学术支持系统。在设计上，IMSD课程将提供一个整合和协作的学习氛围，以促进学生在研究生课程的关键第一年，以及他们过渡到具有竞争力的研究生，获得超出预期的技能。亚利桑那州立大学的IMSD项目将帮助他们获得有竞争力的博士后研究职位，并在毕业后通过提高口头和书面沟通技能以及在地方和国家会议上进行科学陈述，通过加入和参与科学学会的活动以及及时发表科学发现，帮助他们成功地参与领导职位。我们预计，通过提供一个丰富的、智力多样化的环境，旨在将学生无缝地整合到与UB2020愿景相一致的教师发展计划中，该计划将催化UB转变为领先的机构之一，以适应未被充分代表的少数族裔的教学和学习需求。这将通过与教务长办公室、多元文化事务多样性方案和行政官员的合作伙伴关系来实现。该项目的成功将通过同行评议的出版物和在科学会议、研究和奖学金奖项上发表的演讲的质量来衡量，我们的研究生成功地过渡到生物医学和行为科学的学术界和产业界的博士后研究和领导研究职位，以及来自代表性不足的个人申请教职和研究生项目的数量增加。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): One of the current goals at the University at Buffalo (UB) is to increase the number of underrepresented faculty, researchers, undergraduate, and graduate students in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The goal of the current application is to increase the number of underrepresented graduate students in these areas by 4 per year, amounting to a total of 20 during the funding period. This goal will be accomplished by enrolling students from underrepresented populations who have the motivation, talent and ability to succeed, but who are not fully prepared to enter a specific graduate program in the area of biomedical and behavioral sciences at UB (including the departments of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biomedical Sciences [IGPBS]; the Departments of Biological Sciences, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry, Oral Biology, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Psychology; and the Graduate Division at Roswell Park Cancer Institute). The strength of the program will be the design of an individualized curriculum complemented by a Professional Development Catalyst Series course, Research Communication Workshops, and faculty and peer tutoring and mentoring. We will enhance mentor/protigi relationships and provide the essential psychosocial and academic support system for the successful completion of the PhD degree, competition for external fellowship awards, and admission to training grants (T32). IMSD programs, by design, will provide an integrated and collaborative learning atmosphere to facilitate the crucial first fe years of the students' graduate program and their transition into competitive graduate students with skills to rise beyond expectation. UB's IMSD program will gear them to secure competitive postdoctoral research positions and to successfully participate in leadership positions beyond graduation by enhancing oral and written communication skills and scientific presentations at local and national meetings, by becoming members of and participating in the activities of scientific societies and by timely publication of scientific findings. We anticipate that the progrm will catalyze UB's transformation into one of the leading institutions to adapt to underrepresented minority teaching and learning needs by providing a rich, intellectually diverse environment aimed at seamlessly integrating the student to faculty development programs which aligns well with the UB2020 vision. This will be accomplished through a collaborative partnership with the office of the provost, multicultural affairs diversity programs, and administration officials. The success of the program will be measured by the quality of peer-reviewed publications and presentations at scientific meetings, research and fellowship awards, and successful transition of our graduate students to postdoctoral research and leadership research positions in academia and industry in biomedical and behavioral science, and an increase in the number of applications for faculty positions and graduate programs from underrepresented individuals.