Fresno State and UC Merced Bridges to the Doctorate Program in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences

 描述（由申请人提供）：在加州的中央谷的两个主要的西班牙裔服务机构之间的桥梁博士学位计划的建议。来自加州州立大学弗雷斯诺分校（弗雷斯诺州立大学）的代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生将完成生物医学/行为科学硕士课程，继续并完成他们在加州默塞德大学（UC默塞德）的博士课程。该提案将强调生物医学和行为研究领域，这些领域可以利用和建立两个机构的主要研究主题，活动和设施，包括弗雷斯诺州少数民族机构计划（RIMI）的研究基础设施，以及加州大学默塞德的健康科学研究所（HSRI）和干细胞研究联盟（SCRC）。来自弗雷斯诺州立大学科学与数学学院（CSM）和加州大学默塞德自然科学与社会科学学院、人文与艺术学院的教师将创建一个高度互动的项目，鼓励来自代表性不足群体的学生进入MS。弗雷斯诺州立大学的课程，并缓解这些学生到加州大学默塞德课程的过渡。弗雷斯诺州立大学和加州大学默塞德分校都有大量的少数民族学生，是教育部指定的西班牙裔服务机构（HSI），但来自代表性不足的背景的学生的比例很小，继续学士学位后的培训，特别是博士。生物医学科学专业。该计划的目的是通过提供学术培训和研究经验，以增加在加州大学默塞德攻读生物医学/行为研究领域博士学位的弗雷斯诺州立大学学生的数量，从而创建一个通往博士学位的管道。该计划将提供培训和财政支持，为四个弗雷斯诺州加州大学默塞德桥梁学者每年。具体目标是：（1）每年招募至少四名硕士学位未被充分代表的少数民族学生，他们具有完成生物医学和行为研究博士课程的承诺和潜力，（2）在硕士课程期间，成功地在一个重点领域对他们进行培训，以确保顺利过渡到博士课程，（3）在弗雷斯诺州立大学学期期间提供学术指导，并在加州大学默塞德进行暑期实习，并在科学和研究技能的发展方面提供两年的经济援助，以确保学术和专业的提高，以及（4）制定和实施评估计划，导致成功转移和完成生物医学/行为科学博士课程，并优化该计划的各个方面，以在校园之间建立一个可行的长期计划桥梁。将使用一套里程碑来衡量项目在实现拟议目标方面的成功程度。将通过综合评估计划对计划绩效的形成性和总结性评估进行分析。弗雷斯诺州立大学-加州大学默塞德分校桥梁计划将有助于加快弗雷斯诺州立大学的机构目标，即成为综合性大学中研究和研究培训的首要校园，以及解决生物医学研究的模型HSI，并将帮助加州大学默塞德分校，第一所新的研究型大学在21世纪开放，建立其博士课程，并增加进入这些课程的学生的多样性。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A Bridges to the Doctorate program between the two major Hispanic Serving Institutions in California's central valley is proposed. Under-represented minority (URM) students from California State University Fresno (Fresno State) will complete Master's program in biomedical/behavioral sciences to continue and complete their PhD program at the University of California Merced (UC Merced). This proposal will emphasize areas of both biomedical and behavioral research that can utilize and build on major research themes, activities and facilities at the two institutions including Research Infrastructure in Minority Institutions Program (RIMI) at Fresno state, and the Health Sciences Research Institute (HSRI) and Stem Cell Research Consortium (SCRC) at UC Merced. Faculty members from the Colleges of Science and Mathematics (CSM) at Fresno State and from the Schools of Natural Sciences and Social Sciences, Humanities & Arts at UC Merced will create a highly interactive program to encourage students from underrepresented groups to enter the M.S. program at Fresno State and ease the transition of these students into programs at UC Merced. Both Fresno State and UC Merced have a large ethnic minority student population and are Department of Education-designated Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI), but small percentages of students from underrepresented backgrounds continue post baccalaureate trainings, especially Ph.D. program in biomedical sciences. The purpose of this program is to create a pipeline to the PhD by providing academic training and research experiences to increase the number of Fresno State students pursuing doctorates at UC Merced in the areas of biomedical/ behavioral research. The program will provide training and financial support for four Fresno State-UC Merced Bridges Scholars each year. The specific aims are: (1) To recruit at least four Masters underrepresented minority students each year with a demonstrated commitment and potential to complete a doctoral program in biomedical and behavioral research, (2) Successfully train them in one focus area represented by the pool of participating bridges faculty during the Master's program to ensure a smooth transition to the PhD program, (3) Provide academic guidance during the semester at Fresno State with summer internships at UC Merced and financial assistance for two years in the development of scientific and research skills to insure academic and professional enhancement and (4) Develop and implement an evaluation plan that leads to successful transfer and completion of a PhD program in biomedical/behavioral sciences and optimizes each aspect of the program to develop a viable long-term programmatic bridge between the campuses. A set of milestones will be used to measure project success in meeting the proposed goals. Formative and summative evaluation of the program performance will be analyzed through a comprehensive evaluation plan. The Fresno State-UC Merced Bridges program will help to expedite Fresno State's institutional goal of becoming a premier campus in research and research training among comprehensive universities, and a model HSI for addressing biomedical research, and will help UC Merced, the first new research university opened in the 21st century, to build its doctoral programs and increase the diversity of students entering those programs.