RISE: A graduate training program to increase diversity in biomedical science

RISE：旨在增加生物医学多样性的研究生培训计划

• 批准号: 9895831
• 负责人: MELISSA A HARRINGTON
• 金额: $ 40.22万
• 依托单位: DELAWARE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-05-01 至 2022-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9895831
• 关键词: 6 year old; Academic support; Achievement; Address; African American; Applications Grants; Awareness; Biology; Biomedical Research; Communities; Delaware; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Doctor' s Degree; Enrollment; Ensure; Evaluation; Face; Focus Groups; Goals; Grant; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Individual; Institution; Link; Literature; Mentors; Minority; Molecular; Neurosciences; Outcome; Participant; Population; Qualifying; Research; Schools; Science; Scientist; Self Assessment; Self Efficacy; Structure; Students; Study Section; Surveys; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Groups; Underrepresented Students; Universities; Writing; biobehavior; career; course development; design; doctoral student; efficacy research; experience; follow-up; graduate student; health disparity; improved; programs; public health relevance; skill acquisition; skills; success

Delaware State University (DSU), a Historically-Black university with an emerging strength in research proposes a RISE program focused on graduate training in biomedical science. Our interdisciplinary graduate training program will support a diverse group of students in our MS programs in biology and neuroscience and our Neuroscience PhD program. Our biology MS programs have been effective at supporting students from under-represented groups to continue on to PhD programs either at DSU or another institution, while our 6-year old PhD program produced its first 4 graduates in 2015/2016, and 3 out of the 4 are African-American. With our RISE project we will build on our record of graduating diverse MS students and bridging them into PhD programs and doctoral degree achievement, while addressing weaknesses identified by our program self-assessment. Students in our MS program face challenges in writing their thesis and completing their degree, and low scores on the quantitative component of the GRE is a barrier for MS students continuing on to PhD programs. We will improve the completion rate of our MS and PhD students and prepare them for careers in research with increased emphasis on building writing, presentation and scientific reasoning skills. Our “Graduate-RISE” support program will link students in DSU's MS in Biology, MS in Molecular & Cellular Neuroscience, and PhD in Neuroscience programs into a supportive, research-rich community that will provide extensive professional and skills development including: 1) A two-semester, 3 credit Skills for Research Careers course with increased opportunities for writing, and presentation as well as writing a grant proposal that will be reviewed by a mock study section; 2) Quantitative skills and Thesis Writing courses; and 3) the formal program induction/orientation and enhanced mentoring by culturally-competent mentors. These activities have been carefully designed to support our students' success. The professional development course grant writing and extensive mentoring will help the students to develop their identities as professional scientist, while the thesis/dissertation writing course will provide the support to get them across the finish line. Grounded in the literature, these strategies will both provide the RISE students with strong academic support, and all of the project components are sustainable and transferrable to other schools and programs. The Evaluation Plan includes focus groups for summative assessment and validated, baseline and follow-up surveys to assess the development of participants' self-efficacy (research and academic) and STEM identities.

特拉华州州立大学（DSU），一所历史悠久的黑人大学，在以下方面具有新兴优势： 研究提出了一个RISE计划，重点是生物医学科学的研究生培训。我们 跨学科的研究生培训计划将支持我们的MS课程的学生多样化的群体 生物学和神经科学以及我们的神经科学博士课程。我们的生物学硕士课程已经 有效地支持来自代表性不足群体的学生继续攻读博士学位，无论是在 DSU或其他机构，而我们6年的博士课程产生了第一个4毕业生， 2015/2016年，四分之三是非洲裔美国人。随着我们的RISE项目，我们将建立在我们的记录 毕业于不同的MS学生，并将他们连接到博士课程和博士学位 我们的目标是取得成就，同时解决我们的计划自我评估发现的弱点。学生在我们的MS 项目在撰写论文和完成学位方面面临挑战， GRE的定量部分是MS学生继续攻读博士学位的障碍。我们将 提高我们的硕士和博士生的完成率，并为他们的研究生涯做好准备， 更加重视培养写作、演讲和科学推理技能。 我们的“毕业生崛起”支持计划将学生在DSU的生物学硕士， 分子与细胞神经科学，以及神经科学博士课程成为一个支持性的，研究丰富的 社区，将提供广泛的专业和技能发展，包括：1）两个学期， 3个学分的研究职业技能课程，增加了写作和演讲的机会， 以及编写一份将由模拟研究部分审查的资助申请; 2）定量技能， 论文写作课程;和3）正式的程序入门/方向和加强指导， 有文化能力的导师这些活动经过精心设计，以支持我们的学生 成功专业发展课程补助金的写作和广泛的指导将有助于 学生发展自己的身份作为专业科学家，而论文/论文写作课程 将提供支持让他们通过终点线。在文献的基础上，这些战略将 两者都为RISE学生提供了强有力的学术支持，所有项目组成部分都是 可持续且可转移到其他学校和项目。评价计划包括重点小组 进行总结性评估和经过验证的基线和后续调查， 参与者的自我效能（研究和学术）和STEM身份。