Chaminade University BRIC Project

Chaminade大学是一所独特的、联邦指定的夏威夷原住民服务机构，定位于在太平洋地区的教育和社区发展方面处于领先地位。我们为学生培养生物医学和行为科学方面的职业。通过以研究为导向的本科课程提供的严格培训和参与机会，我们的学生将成为准备充分的年轻科学家和健康从业者。他们将为研究和实践做出贡献，以改善太平洋岛屿社区的健康状况，减少健康差距。Chaminade BRIC将使我们的大学定位于解决以下目标：(1)教育和增强下一代学生，主要是来自夏威夷和太平洋地区的学生，成为寻求解决其所在社区的疾病和医疗保健获取差距的研究人员和实践者；(2)支持来自Chaminade和合作机构的一批教员研究人员，他们的项目以潜在的疾病机制和病理学流行病学为主题，这些疾病对夏威夷和太平洋地区的少数族裔人口造成了不成比例的影响；以及(3)成为一个文化意识中心，夏威夷原住民/太平洋岛屿社区与教职员工和学生接触，促进社区参与研究，促进知情倡导，并确保社区优先事项和文化考虑与研究议程无缝结合。Chaminade面临着重大的制度挑战，Rimi应用程序将使我们能够解决这些挑战。我们是一所依赖学费的大学，捐赠基金很少，我们寻求服务于那些由于学术准备不足和巨大的社会经济障碍而极易受到高等教育人员流失的学生。我们的具体目标是在行政和能力建设、研究人员发展、学生学术充实计划、共享研究资源以及改建和翻新等领域建立活动核心。这些核心的共同努力将使Chaminade充分发挥其在教育和研究方面的潜力。

Chaminade University is a unique, Federally-designated Native Hawaiian-serving institution that is positioned to lead in education and community development in the Pacific region. We educate students for careers in biomedical and behavioral sciences. With the rigorous training and engagement opportunities that derive from a research-directed undergraduate curriculum, our students will emerge as highly prepared young scientists and health practitioners. They will contribute to research and practice that will improve health, and reduce health disparities, in Pacific Island communities. The Chaminade BRIC will position our University to address the following goals: (1) educate and empower the next generation of students, primarily from Hawaii and the Pacific, to be researchers and practitioners who seek to address disease and healthcare access disparities in their home communities; (2) support a cadre of faculty researchers, from Chaminade and partner institutions, whose programs are thematically aligned around the underlying disease mechanisms and the epidemiology of pathologies that disproportionately affect minority populations in Hawaii and the Pacific; and (3) become a culturally aware center where Native Hawaiian/Pacific Island communities are engaged with faculty and students to promote community participation in research, promote informed advocacy and ensure the seamless integration of community priorities and cultural considerations with research agendas. Chaminade faces significant institutional challenges that this RIMI application will enable us to address. We are a tuition-dependent University with a small endowment, and we seek to serve students who are highly vulnerable to attrition from higher education, due to academic under-preparedness and over-whelming socioeconomic barriers. Our Specific Aims are to establish Cores of activity in the areas of Administrative and Capacity Building, Research Faculty Development, Academic Enrichment Programs for Students, Shared Research Resources and Alterations and Renovations. The concerted efforts of these Cores will enable Chaminade to realize its full potential in education and research.