BUILDing SCHOLARS (Overall Component)

德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校(UTEP)要求的这笔赠款将集中努力开发 名为建筑学者的变革性卓越中心(建筑基础设施导致 多样性：面向健康的教育领袖和研究学者西南联盟)。我们的目标是 实施一系列计划和活动，积极改变下一步的培训 来自美国西南部的一代生物医学研究人员通过多个 得克萨斯州、新墨西哥州和亚利桑那州的机构财团，以及几个关键的区域外地点。这个 中心的目标是：(1)提高完成拟议活动的机构能力；(2)制定内部 和跨机构辅导驱动的实践社区；(3)为学生实施战略性活动 招聘、研究培训和指导；(4)支持参与的教员和 博士后人员；(5)与协调和评价建立协作关系 用于跟踪和评估目的的中心。一旦全面实施，该中心将支持135个 每年拿全额奖学金的本科生。这些活动之所以具有创新性，部分原因是 强调跨学科；注重早期干预；使用资产捆绑办法 克服教育和研究培训障碍；整合技术，将合作伙伴和 加强学生之间的联系；通过实施研究驱动的 课程和实践社区。所有创新都将使拟建的中心能够扩大规模 大学本科研究培训，并直接为国家卫生研究院资助的劳动力多样化做出贡献。 这项提议意义重大，因为它采取了地区性的方法来设计一系列多机构的 将满足集中在美国的代表性不足群体的需求的方案和活动 在他们成为生物医学研究人员的道路上。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 来自代表不足的群体的生物医学研究人员获得R01奖金的比例很高 低于多数群体的相应百分比。拟议的英才中心将建立一个 一套逐步推进的计划，以转变服务不足的生物医学研究培训 美国西南部的人口，最终目标是提高他们对未来投资回报的竞争力 级别支持。

This grant requested by The University at Texas at El Paso (UTEP) will focus efforts on the development of a transformative center of excellence called BUILDing SCHOLARS (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity: Southwest Consortium of Health-Oriented education Leaders and Research Scholars). The goal is to implement a suite of programs and activities that will positively transform the training of the next generation of biomedical researchers from US Southwest underrepresented groups through a multi- institution consortium in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, as well as several key extra-regional sites. The center aims to: (1) Improve institutional capacities to accomplish proposed activities; (2) Develop an intra- and cross-institutional mentoring-driven community of practice; (3) Implement strategic activities for student recruitment, research training and mentoring; (4) Support the development of participating faculty and postdoctoral personnel; and (5) Establish a collaborative relationship with the Coordination and Evaluation Center for tracking and evaluation purposes. Once it is fully implemented, the center will support 135 undergraduate students on full scholarships every year. The activities are innovative in part because of the trans-disciplinary emphasis; the focus on early interventions; the use of an assets bundling approach to overcoming educational and research training barriers; integration of technology to link partners and enhance student connectivity; and the expansion of impacts through implementation of a research driven curriculum and a community of practice. All innovations will enable the proposed center to scale-up undergraduate research training and contribute directly to the diversification of the NIH-funded workforce. This proposal is significant because it takes a regional approach to designing a multi-institutional series of programs and activities that will meet the needs of underrepresented groups concentrated in the US Southwest on their path to becoming biomedical researchers. RELEVANCE (See instructions): The percentage of biomedical researchers from underrepresented groups who are awarded R01 grants is far below the corresponding percentage for majority groups. The proposed center of excellence will institute a progressively advanced set of programs to transform the biomedical research training of underserved populations in the US Southwest with the ultimate goal of improving their competitiveness for future ROI level support.