Medgar Evers College Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement

简介(由申请者提供)：纽约城市大学梅德加·埃弗斯学院(MEC)成立的目的是为布鲁克林中部的居民提供优质、负担得起的高等教育，他们经常面临着共同的城市挑战：高度贫困、犯罪和失业、苦苦挣扎的K-12公立学校以及资源匮乏。该学院7000名攻读学位的学生中，98%来自科学界代表性较低的人群，几乎都是来自家庭的第一代上大学的人。MEC已经开始与位于2英里以内的纽约州立大学DownState医学中心校区进行创新和实质性的机构合作。拟议的MBRS Rise计划旨在通过促进学生在科学学科中追求最高水平的学术和专业成就，同时建设MEC的长期研究和培训能力，来利用这种机构合作。MEC MBRS RISE计划将加强MEC本科生的一般机构研究文化，特别是研究培训，从而增加攻读生物医学科学博士学位的学生数量。该计划将提供有指导的研究经验，并每年支持16名MEC本科生，预计至少75%的参与者将攻读生物医学科学博士学位，毕业率至少为80%。MEC Rise的学生将从至少35名合格学生的初始申请者池中挑选出来，这些申请者来自于至少2.8 GPA的潜在申请者池&GT；400，以及从面试和学生互动中收集到的强烈的研究职业兴趣。每个参与者将在短期内在纽约州立大学下州医学中心的实验室与一名研究导师(首席研究员)一起进行学年实习，长期目标是将安置机会扩大到MEC的生产性实验室。一批至少20名MEC RISE伙伴将与RISE学者并行参加所有MEC RISE活动，但他们将不会获得学年研究培训的直接工资支持。Rise Associates的研究培训将侧重于T32授权机构的夏季研究机会，以及参加以会议为基础的旅行奖励担保的科学会议。与会者将参加1-3次区域/国家科学会议，要求他们至少向一次会议提交海报/演示文稿。该计划将提供增强的课程，旨在通过提供必修的发展研讨会/课程，为MEC Rise学生进入竞争激烈的生物医学研究生(博士和MD/博士)计划做好准备；通过举办MEC Rise计划，通过每年举办一次校园研讨会，展示MEC的学生研究成果，增强MEC的机构研究文化。该计划将利用与纽约州立大学下州医学中心的机构关系，作为近期MEC RISE学生研究培训的基础，以发展机构间的教员研究合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Medgar Evers College (MEC) of the City University of New York was established to serve as an anchor and provide quality, affordable higher education to Central Brooklyn residents, who often face common urban challenges: high poverty, crime, and unemployment, struggling K-12 public schools, and a dearth of resources. Ninety-eight percent of the college's 7,000 degree-seeking students come from populations that are underrepresented in the sciences and almost all represent the first generation attending college from their families. MEC has embarked on an innovative and substantial institutional collaboration with The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center campus located within 2 miles. The proposed MBRS RISE program is designed to leverage this institutional collaboration by facilitating students' ability to pursue the highest levels of academic and professional achievement in scientific disciplines while building MEC longer- term research and training capacity. This MEC MBRS RISE program will enhance the general institutional research culture and in particular, research training among MEC undergraduates, resulting in increases in the number of students pursuing doctoral study in the biomedical sciences. The program will provide mentored research experiences and support 16 MEC undergraduates per year with the expected outcome of at least 75% of participants advancing to doctoral study in the biomedical sciences with a completion rate of at least 80%. MEC RISE students will be selected from an initial applicant pool of at least 35 qualified student applicants, emanating from a potential applicant pool of >400 based on minimum 2.8 GPA and strong research career interest gleaned from interviews and student interaction. Each participant will be placed in an academic year internship with a research mentor (principal investigator) in laboratories in the near term at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, with the longer-term objective of expanding placement opportunities to productive laboratories at MEC. A cohort of at least 20 MEC RISE Associates will parallel RISE Scholars participation in all MEC RISE activities, except that they will not receive direct salary support for academic year research training. Research training for RISE Associates will be focused on summer research opportunities at T32 granted institutions and travel to scientific meetings underwritten by meeting based travel awards. Participants will attend 1-3 to regional/national scientific meetings, requiring them to submit posters/presentations to at least one meeting. The program will provide an enhanced curriculum aimed at preparing MEC RISE students for admission into competitive graduate (PhD and MD/PhD) programs in the biomedical sciences by offering mandatory developmental workshops/courses; enhance the institutional research culture at MEC through leveraging the MEC RISE program by hosting an annual on-campus symposium to demonstrate student research achievement at MEC. This program will leverage the institutional relationship with SUNY Downstate Medical Center that serves as the foundation for near-term MEC RISE student research training to develop inter institutional faculty research collaborations.