Neuroscience Research Opportunities to Increase Diversity (NeuroID)

增加多样性的神经科学研究机会 (NeuroID)

• 批准号: 8853087
• 负责人: JOSE E GARCIA-ARRARAS
• 金额: $ 43.2万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO RIO PIEDRAS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-30 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8853087
• 关键词: Academic Training; Active Learning; Area; Awareness; Behavioral Sciences; Beryllium; Biology; Colorado; Communities; Community Outreach; Competence; Computational Biology; Counseling; Decision Making; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor' s Degree; Economics; Educational workshop; Emotional; Empathy; Environment; Funding; Gender; Goals; Grant; Heart; Hispanics; Institution; Island; Journals; Knowledge; Laboratories; Life; Loneliness; Measurable; Mentors; Mentorship; Motivation; Neurobiology; Neurosciences; Neurosciences Research; Oral; Paper; Participant; Philosophy; Piedra; Puerto Rico; Race; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Social Impacts; Social Responsibility; Social status; Staging; Students; Training; Training Activity; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Utah; Vermont; Vocational Guidance; Wood material; Writing; base; career; cohort; design; experience; information gathering; interest; member; metropolitan; multidisciplinary; programs; psychologic; public health relevance; role model; skills; stressor; tool; undergraduate student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal entitled Neuroscience Research Opportunities to Increase Diversity (NeuroID) from the University of Puerto Rico Rio Piedras Campus aims to increase the opportunities available for undergraduate students in the area of Neurosciences. This proposal builds upon the experiences gathered during the current funding period to enhance and strengthen the mentoring and training activities of the NeuroID program, incorporating an emphasis in developing active-learning skills and strengthen emotional competence. NeuroID takes advantage of the strong Neuroscience expertise among UPR investigators and fortifies the underlying neuroscience network that joins undergraduate students, island investigators and their collaborators in mainland institutions. The main goal of the NeuroID program is to increase diversity in the neurosciences by establishing a cohort of interested students that will receive academic and professional training in neuroscience-related research. The selected students will be Hispanics from different gender, race, social status and physical needs. The core of the program is a comprehensive research experience for undergraduate students based on a research-with-purpose training philosophy. The training program consists of three major components: (1) Research Experience - An intense research experience during the academic year and two research summer experiences: one at the UPR and the other in a laboratory at an institution in the mainland USA that have active T32 training grants in neuroscience and/or excellent track record in recruiting and training underrepresented minorities. (2) Academic training - an academic program based on active learning activities, seminars, workshops and selected courses to enhance their knowledge in neurobiology, quantitative biology and understanding of a research career. (3) Student development activities - Participants will enter a mentoring program that includes community outreach activities, writing in science, oral presentations and career counseling to enhance their professional capabilities. The proposed activities together with an established mentoring program with ethnic and race-representative members of the Neuroscience community as role models will serve to increase the student competitiveness and enhance their interest in continuing a research career in neuroscience. The NeuroID program will extend the impact of other successful programs at the University of Puerto Rico, not only by focusing on the neuroscience field but also by greatly expanding the program to students from primarily-undergraduate institutions in the San Juan metropolitan areas, which increases the pool of available applicants as well as providing an inclusive and broader training program.

 描述（由申请人提供）：波多黎各大学 Rio Piedras 校区题为“增加多样性的神经科学研究机会（NeuroID）”的提案旨在增加神经科学领域本科生的机会。该提案建立在当前资助期间收集的经验的基础上，旨在增强和加强 NeuroID 项目的指导和培训活动，并强调发展主动学习技能和加强情感能力。 NeuroID 利用 UPR 研究人员强大的神经科学专业知识，强化了将本科生、岛屿研究人员及其在大陆机构的合作者联系在一起的基础神经科学网络。 NeuroID 项目的主要目标是通过建立一批感兴趣的学生来增加神经科学的多样性，这些学生将接受神经科学相关研究的学术和专业培训。入选的学生将是来自不同性别、种族、社会地位和身体需求的西班牙裔。该计划的核心是基于有目的的研究培训理念为本科生提供全面的研究体验。培训计划由三个主要部分组成：(1) 研究经验 - 学年期间的深入研究经验和两次夏季研究经验：一次在 UPR，另一次在美国大陆某机构的实验室，该机构在神经科学方面拥有积极的 T32 培训资助和/或在招募和培训代表性不足的少数群体方面拥有出色的记录。 (2) 学术培训——基于主动学习活动、研讨会、讲习班和精选课程的学术计划，以增强他们在神经生物学、定量生物学方面的知识以及对研究职业的理解。 (3) 学生发展活动——参与者将参加指导计划，包括社区外展活动、科学写作、口头报告和职业咨询，以提高他们的专业能力。拟议的活动以及以神经科学界的民族和种族代表成员为榜样的既定指导计划将有助于提高学生的竞争力并增强他们继续从事神经科学研究生涯的兴趣。 NeuroID 项目将扩大波多黎各大学其他成功项目的影响力，不仅专注于神经科学领域，而且还将该项目大幅扩展到圣胡安大都市区主要本科院校的学生，从而增加了可用申请者的数量，并提供了包容性和更广泛的培训项目。