STIMULUS - Science & Technology Immersion for Underrepresented Learners in the U.S.

项目总结： 黑人、拉丁裔和美国原住民学生在以下方面远远落后于白人和亚洲学生 在科学、就业和学术项目中的代表性。这种差距尤其明显。 在种族多元化的加利福尼亚州湾区，那里有丰富的生物医学和工程机会。 与美国其他地区一样，有色人种学生的比例一直偏低。例如，在2013年， 11%的美国劳动力是黑人，但在从事科学工作的人中，只有6%是黑人。在……里面 相比之下，白人和亚洲人从事科学工作的可能性是美国人的3倍 国内劳动力。尽管经历了几十年的立法和政策变化，这些统计数据已经发生了变化 至少超过30年。自成立以来，奥克兰儿童医院研究所(CHORI) 解决我们社区中的这些差距，作为一项使命目标。为此，CHORI创造了一个夏天 学生研究计划(SSRP)在近40年前通过以下方式促进生物医学培训的多样性 为有潜力的代表不足的学生提供短期、一对一的指导研究体验 为建立一支具有文化代表性的科研队伍做出重大贡献。38年来，我们有 获得不间断资金以开发此计划，同时通过添加以下内容继续扩展和改进 对现代学生有吸引力的培训和经验。下一项我们称之为刺激的创新-- 面向美国未被充分代表的学习者的科技沉浸式学习--寻求利用R25 未来五年每年资助18名本科生或卫生专业学生的机制。使用 刺激，现有的计划基础设施将升级，以加强我们的课程，以更好地匹配 学生的多样性和科学市场不断变化的需求。这项多方面的建议 提供许多增强功能，包括与加州大学伯克利分校的新合作 生物工程，更全面的培训研讨会，从地区渠道扩大招聘 计划和历史上的黑人大学，正式的近同行指导计划，增强校友 跟踪和评估，以及创新的以案例为基础的生物伦理教育方法。我们期待着这些 计划的增强将使我们能够接触到更多代表不足的学生，并拥有更持久的 对选定的学生在生物医学或临床研究领域追求职业生涯的影响 兴趣，用实用的职业发展技能武装他们，增加他们对科学的信心， 从而提高他们在科学技术工程数学(STEM)劳动力中取得成功的可能性。

Project Summary: Black, Latino, and Native American students fall far behind their White and Asian counterparts in representation within science employment and academic programs. This disparity is especially noticeable within the ethnically-diverse California Bay Area that is rich in biomedical and engineering opportunities. Similar to other parts of the country, students of color are consistently underrepresented. For example, in 2013, 11% of the U.S. workforce was Black but only 6% of those employed in science jobs were Black. In comparison, White and Asians are 3-times more likely to be employed in science jobs compared to the domestic workforce. Despite decades of legislation and policy changes, these statistics have changed minimally over 30 years. Since its founding, Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) has set addressing these disparities in our community as a mission objective. To that end, CHORI created a Summer Student Research Program (SSRP) nearly four decades ago to promote diversity in biomedical training by providing a short-term, one-on-one mentored research experience to underrepresented students with potential to significantly contribute to a culturally-representative scientific research workforce. For 38 years, we have secured uninterrupted funding to develop this program while continuing to expand and improve by adding training and experiences that will appeal to the modern student. The next innovation we call STIMULUS – Science & Technology IMmersion for Underrepresented Learners in the US – seeks to utilize the R25 mechanism to support 18 undergraduate or health professional students each year for the next five years. With STIMULUS, the existing program infrastructure will be upgraded to strengthen our curriculum to better match the diversity of the students and evolving needs of the scientific marketplace. This multi-faceted proposal provides many enhancements, including a new collaboration with the University of California Berkeley, School of Bioengineering, more comprehensive training workshops, expanded recruiting from regional pipeline programs and historically black colleges, formalized program for near-peer mentoring, enhanced alumni tracking and evaluation, and an innovative case-based approach for bioethics education. We expect these program enhancements will allow us to reach more under-represented students and have a longer-lasting impact on the selected students to pursue a career in biomedical or clinical research by stimulating their interest, arming them with practical professional development skills, and increasing their confidence in science, thereby improving their likelihood of success in the Science Technology Engineering Math (STEM) workforce.