MAXIMIZING STUDENT DIVERSITY IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

翻译后摘要：在分子水平上的多样性创造了曾经存在于这个星球上的所有生命形式的多样性。 Scott E.最近的研究佩奇（密歇根大学）建议增加思想，观点和 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 而卓越的科学则要求包容来自各种背景的学生。本申请 要求继续支持一个成功的“最大限度地提高学生发展的倡议”（IMSD）计划 在华盛顿大学生物和生物医学科学部（DBBS）。的使命 我们的计划是增加入学，培训，保留，毕业，和职业生涯的成果， 优秀的博士生从群体历史上代表性不足的科学，以增加 美国STEM劳动力的多样性和力量，特别是在教授一级。过去 赠款周期，我们的IMSD计划已经开发了15个培训要素，与毕业生无缝集成 学生培训和研究，支持所有进入下的学术，专业和职业培训- 代表（UR）博士生，在许多情况下，所有DBBS博士生。在下一个赠款周期，我们建议 在我们的计划中增加五项新活动，以进一步推动学生的成功，并减少成绩 UR和非UR学生在我们的博士课程之间的差距。这些培训内容涵盖了我们学生的 毕业生的职业生涯，并专注于确保他们超越定义的学术里程碑（例如，第一年的课程， 资格考试和论文提案），通过职业小组和工作接触到各种职业选择， 跟踪机会，并发展强大的垂直整合的学生支持网络。我们的IMSD 该计划只是在其存在的第四年，但已经基本上欢迎所有进入UR DBBS博士 学生进入它，即使计划资金只能支持这些学生的一小部分，确保我们的 该计划是DBBS的UR学生的学术和职业发展支持的焦点。我们的IMSD 该计划支持学生的前两年，并优先选择学生支持谁 在追求以研究为基础的科学方面表现出了天赋和决心，同时克服了 重大困难。尽管它的年轻，我们的计划已经帮助增加早期阶段的UR学生 保留和学术成功，并缩小UR和非UR学生之间的成绩差距。因此，在本发明中， 我们的IMSD计划在增加美国劳动力中科学家的多样性方面具有巨大的潜力， 在这样做的延续和加强在美国的科学卓越的传统。

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.