MAXIMIZING STUDENT DIVERSITY IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

最大限度地提高华盛顿大学生物医学科学学生的多样性

• 批准号: 9922908
• 负责人: James Benjamin Skeath
• 金额: $ 56.3万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-20 至 2023-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9922908
• 关键词: Academic Training; Achievement; African American; Age; Bachelor' s Degree; Biological; Data; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Elements; Ensure; Exposure to; Funding; Goals; Grant; Gravitation; Hispanic Americans; Individual; Internships; Knowledge; Life; Michigan; Mission; Molecular; NCI Scholars Program; Native Americans; Occupations; Outcome; Patient Care; Performance; Planets; Population Heterogeneity; Productivity; Program Development; Qualifying; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; STEM career; Schools; Science; Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; Scientist; Structure; Students; Talents; Time; Training; Training Activity; Underrepresented Students; United States; Universities; Washington; aging population; base; career; career development; career preparation; clinical practice; college; design; doctoral student; foot; graduate student; matriculation; member; mid-career faculty; programs; recruit; retention rate; senior faculty; statistics; student training; success; support network; underrepresented minority student

Abstract: Diversity at the molecular level has created the diversity of all life forms ever to exist on this planet. Recent studies by Scott E. Page (Univ. Michigan) suggest increased diversity of thought, perspective and background among individuals working as part of a team enhances performance. The pursuit of knowledge and scientific excellence then demands the inclusion of students from all backgrounds. This application requests continued support for a successful `Initiative for Maximizing Student Development' (IMSD) program within the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) at Washington University. The mission of our program is to increase the matriculation, training, retention, graduation, and career outcomes of outstanding PhD students from groups historically underrepresented in the sciences in order to increase the diversity and power of the STEM workforce in the US, particularly at the professoriate level. Over the past grant cycle, our IMSD program has developed 15 training elements that integrate seamlessly with graduate student training and research, bolstering the academic, professional, and career training of all entering under- represented (UR) PhD students and in many cases all DBBS PhD students. In the next grant cycle, we propose to add five new activities to our program in order to further drive student success and reduce the achievement gap between UR and non-UR students in our PhD programs. These training elements span our students' graduate careers and focus on ensuring they surpass defined academic milestones (e.g., first-year courses, qualifying exams, and thesis proposals), are exposed to varied career options via career panels and job- shadowing opportunities, and develop strong vertically-integrated student support networks. Our IMSD Program is only in its fourth-year of existence, but already welcomes essentially all entering UR DBBS PhD students into it, even though program funds can support only a subset of these students, ensuring that our program is the focal point of academic and career development support for UR students in DBBS. Our IMSD Program supports students for up to their first two years and preferentially selects students for support who have demonstrated a talent for and determination in the pursuit of research-based science, while overcoming significant hardships. Despite its young age, our program already has helped to increase early stage UR student retention and academic success and to narrow the achievement gap between UR and non-UR students. Thus, our IMSD program harbors great potential to increase the diversity of scientists within the US workforce, and in so doing continuing and enhancing the tradition of scientific excellence in the US.

摘要：分子层的多样性创造了这个星球上所有生命形式的多样性。 斯科特·E·佩奇（Scott E. 作为团队一部分工作的个人的背景可以提高绩效。追求知识 然后，科学卓越要求将各种背景的学生纳入其中。此应用程序 请求继续支持成功的“最大化学生发展计划”（IMSD）计划 在华盛顿大学的生物学和生物医学科学（DBBS）中。任务 我们的计划是增加入学，培训，保留，毕业和职业成果 从历史上讲，来自科学的人数不足，以增加该团体的杰出博士学位学生，以增加 STEM劳动力在美国的多样性和力量，尤其是在教授一级。过去 赠款周期，我们的IMSD计划开发了15个培训元素，可以与研究生无缝集成 学生培训和研究，加强所有进入不足的学术，专业和职业培训 代表（UR）博士生，在许多情况下，所有DBBS博士学位学生。在下一个赠款周期中，我们建议 为了进一步推动学生成功并减少成就，向我们的计划添加五个新活动 在我们的博士课程中，UR和非UR学生之间的差距。这些培训元素涵盖了我们的学生 研究生职业并专注于确保他们超过明确的学术里程碑（例如，第一年课程， 合格的考试和论文提案）通过职业小组和工作接触各种职业选择 - 遮蔽机会，并建立强大的垂直集成学生支持网络。我们的IMSD 计划仅在其存在的第四年，但基本上已经欢迎所有进入UR DBBS博士学位 学生参与其中，即使计划资金只能支持这些学生的一部分，以确保我们的 计划是DBB学生的学术和职业发展支持的焦点。我们的IMSD 课程为学生提供支持长达前两年的支持，并优先选择学生以寻求支持 在克服基于研究的科学方面已经证明了追求基于研究的科学的才能和决心 巨大的困难。尽管年龄很小，但我们的计划已经有助于增加您的早期学生 保留和学术上的成功，并缩小UR和非UR学生之间的成就差距。因此， 我们的IMSD计划具有增加美国劳动力科学家多样性的巨大潜力， 因此，继续并增强了美国科学卓越的传统。