Weill Cornell Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

项目摘要/摘要 威尔·康奈尔研究生院(WCGS)-威尔·康奈尔大学之间的教育和培训伙伴关系 医学和纪念斯隆-凯特琳癌症中心-是一个主要的博士生培训机构 生物医学科学。我们希望利用我们的培训能力(2.75亿美元的研究资金，340名毕业生 学校教职员工和330多名博士生)，以提高我们吸引、留住和发展的比率 代表不足的少数民族(URM)博士生作为生物医学劳动力的领导者。要做到这一点 为了实现这一目标，我们提出了一项威尔·康奈尔国际管理发展学院的项目，目标如下：(1)吸引一批准备充分的 通过与当地和为少数群体服务的机构建立伙伴关系，让URM学生进入WCGS；(2)建立一个强大的、 通过早期启动计划，多方面地更新URM博士生和教师的自我更新社区 导师辅导和社交聚会；以及(3)为管理学院的学者提供领导力培训、专业技能 和网络成为各种生物医学和科学相关职业的领导者。WCGS为培训做好了准备 下一代URM生物医学科学家和我们相信，通过威尔·康奈尔大学的IMSD，我们 可以培养源源不断的训练有素的博士人才，既能实现多元化，又能为 生物医学工作人员。

Project Summary/Abstract The Weill Cornell Graduate School (WCGS)—an educational and training partnership between Weill Cornell Medicine and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center—is a premier institution for PhD training in the biomedical sciences. We look to leverage our training capacity ($275 million in research funding, 340 graduate school faculty, and over 330 PhD students) to increase our rates of attracting, retaining, and developing underrepresented minority (URM) doctoral students as leaders in the biomedical workforce. To accomplish this goal, we propose a Weill Cornell IMSD program with the following aims: (1) Attract a pool of well-prepared URM students to WCGS through partnerships with local and minority-serving institutions; (2) Build a robust, self-renewing community of URM doctoral students and faculty through an early start program, multifaceted mentorship, and social gatherings; and (3) Equip IMSD scholars with leadership training, professional skills and networks to be leaders in a variety of biomedical and science-related careers. WCGS is primed for training the next generation of URM biomedical scientists and we are confident that through the Weill Cornell IMSD, we can develop a steady stream of well-trained PhD's that will both diversify and bring innovation to the biomedical workforce.