Undergraduate Research Program to Promote Diversity in EHS

 描述(由申请者提供)：我们在哥伦比亚大学梅尔曼公共卫生学院环境健康科学(EHS)系提议的“促进多样性的本科生研究计划”的目的是增加有兴趣攻读环境健康科学研究生学位的来自代表性不足人群的学生人数。虽然像IMSD这样的项目是为了支持博士水平的多元化学生，但挑战一直是在那些申请环境健康科学研究生项目的人中寻找来自不同背景的合格候选人。为了实现这一点，我们需要在更广泛的学生群体还在读本科的时候就吸引他们的兴趣，并进一步培养那些对EHS表现出兴趣的学生。我们建议通过让来自代表性不足背景的本科生参加一个两年的指导性研究项目来实现这一点。该项目不仅包括与EHS教职员工的亲身实践研究，还包括EHS有缺陷的人以及博士生的研讨会。我们将为学生提供专业精神方面的培训，在他们两年的项目中提供指导，并指导研究生的申请过程。本科生将与约翰·杰伊学院的教职员工合作确定，该学院是纽约市立大学学校系统的一部分，被美国教育部认定为少数族裔和拉美裔服务机构

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of our proposed program, "Undergraduate Research Program to Promote Diversity" at Columbia University Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Department in the Mailman School of Public Health, is to increase the pool of students from underrepresented populations who are interested in pursuing graduate degrees in environmental health sciences. While programs, such as IMSD, exist to support diversity students at the doctoral level, the challenge has been to identify qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds among those that apply to environmental health sciences graduate programs. To accomplish this we need to capture the interest of a wider group of students while they are still undergraduates and to further nurture those students who have shown an interest in EHS. We propose to accomplish this by involving undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in a two year mentored research program. The program will include not only hands-on research with EHS faculty, but also seminars from faulty in EHS as well as doctoral candidates. We will provide students with training in professionalism, mentoring throughout their two years in the program and guidance with the graduate school application process. Undergraduates will be identified in collaboration with faculty at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York school system that is recognized as both a minority and Hispanic serving institution by the US Department of Education