Blazing to Biomedical Careers

开拓生物医学事业

• 批准号: 8753872
• 负责人: NICHOLAS W. KIN
• 金额: $ 15.4万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-08 至 2019-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8753872
• 关键词: African American; Alabama; Attitude; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical Research; Community Outreach; Counseling; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Effectiveness; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Head; High School Student; Hispanics; Individual; Internships; Joints; Knowledge; Laboratories; Learning; Light; Master of Science; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Modeling; Participant; Pathway interactions; Performance; Population; Preparation; Program Development; Readiness; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Rural; Schools; Science; Students; Techniques; Technology; Testing; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Ursidae Family; Work; Writing; base; career; cohort; college; community college; experience; graduate student; high school; improved; interest; peer; programs; public health relevance; role model; science education; skills; success; teacher; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Biomedical research is expanding rapidly in the US; however, minorities continue to be underrepresented in this workforce. While the TIMSS and other tests show that US students are greatly improving their academic preparedness compared to students from most other nations, minority students have not shown such academic gains. The net result is that minority and underserved students remain relatively poorly prepared to enter high technology careers such as biomedical and behavioral sciences. The result is that minorities who constitute about 29% of the total population, represent only about 7% of PhD degrees in biomedical and behavioral science and hold only about 4% of R01 biomedical and behavioral research grants. Many underserved students lack early engagement, and even when they become interested in biomedical research careers, they lack the opportunities to develop skills and content knowledge to move into 4-year baccalaureate programs leading to biomedical or behavioral research careers. Blazing to Biomedical Careers (BBC) will join the forces of two community colleges and the University of Alabama at Birmingham to provide students graduating from high school who are headed to community colleges with internships that will introduce them to the opportunities and promises of biomedical and behavioral research careers before entering their community college. A second internship will occur the summer before their 2nd year at the community college. The program will also offer advanced coursework in biomedical research during their two years in community college, thus preparing the students for the rigors of advanced coursework at UAB. The students will be paid for their summer research and for research learning opportunities during the two school years. Once in their first year at UAB (juniors), those students who are performing well in their academic biomedical curriculum will be recruited to serve as mentors to BBC students still in their first two years at community college. Other underrepresented junior and senior undergraduates and some graduate students will be similarly recruited to serve as facilitators for high school students at UAB's GENEius lab, thus becoming role models for potential new BBC cohorts. Finally, the program will provide counseling and an educational program for BBC students who realize they are not destined for PI/PD status, but who want careers in the biomedical research field. The Broader impact of BBC will be to create a new cadre of underrepresented individuals in biomedical research. The Intellectual merit will be to test methods to engage and prepare underrepresented students for careers in biomedical and behavioral research. This will be especially important, in that the two community colleges are very different in their student population and thus the assessment will shed light on what methods work best for which populations.

描述（由申请人提供）：生物医学研究在美国迅速扩大;然而，少数民族在这支劳动力队伍中的代表性仍然不足。虽然TIMSS和其他测试显示，与大多数其他国家的学生相比，美国学生的学术准备大大提高，但少数民族学生并没有表现出这样的学术进步。最终的结果是，少数民族和服务不足的学生仍然相对缺乏准备进入高科技职业，如生物医学和行为科学。结果是，占总人口约29%的少数民族，仅占生物医学和行为科学博士学位的7%，仅占R 01生物医学和行为研究赠款的4%。许多服务不足的学生缺乏早期参与，即使当他们对生物医学研究事业感兴趣时，他们也缺乏发展技能和内容知识的机会，无法进入4年制学士学位课程，从而进入生物医学或行为研究事业。Blazing to Biomedical Careers（BBC）将加入两所社区学院和伯明翰的亚拉巴马大学的力量，为即将进入社区学院的高中毕业生提供实习机会，在进入社区学院之前向他们介绍生物医学和行为研究职业的机会和承诺。第二次实习将发生在他们在社区大学第二年的前一个夏天。该计划还将在社区大学的两年时间里提供生物医学研究的高级课程，从而为学生在UAB的高级课程的严格要求做好准备。学生将支付他们的夏季研究和研究学习机会在两个学年。一旦在UAB（大三）的第一年，那些在学术生物医学课程中表现良好的学生将被招募为BBC学生的导师，这些学生仍在社区大学的前两年。其他代表性不足的大三和大四本科生以及一些研究生也将被招募到UAB的GENEius实验室担任高中生的促进者， 从而成为潜在的BBC新成员的榜样。最后，该计划将提供咨询和教育计划，为英国广播公司的学生谁意识到他们是不是注定PI/PD状态，但谁想要在生物医学研究领域的职业生涯。BBC的更广泛的影响将是在生物医学研究中创造一个新的代表性不足的个人骨干。智力价值将是测试方法，以吸引和准备代表性不足的学生在生物医学和行为研究的职业生涯。这一点尤其重要，因为这两所社区学院的学生人数非常不同，因此评估将揭示什么方法最适合哪些人群。