Promoting Underrepresented Minority Advancement in the Sciences (PUMAS)

项目总结/摘要 我们计划的目标，促进在科学（PUMAS）代表性不足的少数民族的进步，是 增加训练有素的少数民族生物医学研究科学家的数量。我们通过提供八个 为来自传统背景的社区大学生提供暑期研究机会 在科学领域的代表性不足。当代表不足的少数民族（URM）学生获得第一手资料 在像格莱斯顿这样的最先进的实验室里，他们更愿意主修科学， 转到四年制学校这就增加了URM申请研究生院的人数 并使生物医学研究多样化。 PUMAS计划招募目前在社区学院就读的学生， 成功完成了至少两个学期的大学水平的科学课程与实验室组成部分 （化学和分子生物学优先，但不是必需的），并打算转移到4年制机构 攻读科学、技术、工程或数学（STEM）学士学位。我们的目标是 将PUMAS计划营销到我们机构60英里半径内的23所社区学院。主要 营销科学系椅子和转移中心在我们的目标校园，而且数学， 工程，科学成就（梅萨）的董事在北方加州。梅萨是一个旨在 发展加州未来的STEM劳动力，支持学生成功转入4年制 STEM专业的大学我们选择关注社区大学的学生，因为这一群体是 经常被忽视，在高等教育机构中少数民族入学率最高， 我们的国家。 每年夏天的9周里，PUMAS的参与者都会与格莱斯顿的一位科学导师配对， 从事一个具体的研究项目。他们花75%的时间做生物医学研究，包括 独立的研究活动，接受一对一的指导，参加实验室会议，科学 讲座、研讨会和期刊俱乐部。他们花25%的时间参加补充教育 活动，其中包括为期一周的生物技术训练营和一系列专业发展讲习班 旨在鼓励教育弱势学生坚持通过本科和研究生院 在科学领域。PUMAS计划的高潮是一个海报会议，学生在其中描述他们的工作， 向格莱斯顿的科学界公布了他的假设和发现

PROJECT SUMMARY / ABSTRACT The goal of our program, Promoting Underrepresented Minority Advancement in the Sciences (PUMAS), is to increase the number of well-trained minority biomedical research scientists. We do this by providing eight summer research opportunities for community college students from backgrounds that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences. When Under-Represented Minority (URM) students gain first-hand experience in a state-of-the-art lab such as Gladstone, they are more prepared to major in the sciences when they transfer to a 4-year institution. This then increases the number of URM's who apply for graduate school and diversifies biomedical research. The PUMAS program recruits' students who are currently enrolled in a community college, have successfully completed at least two semesters of college-level science courses with a lab component (chemistry and molecular biology preferred, but not required), and who intend to transfer to a 4-year institution to pursue a baccalaureate degree in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM). We target our marketing of the PUMAS program to 23 community colleges within a 60-mile radius of our institution. Mainly marketing to science department chairs and transfer centers at our target campuses, but also to Mathematics, Engineering, Science Achievement (MESA) directors in Northern California. MESA is a program created to develop California's future STEM workforce that supports students to successfully transfer to 4-year universities in STEM majors. We chose to focus on community college students because this population is often overlooked and has the highest percentage of minority enrollment across institutes of higher education in our state. For 9-weeks each summer, the PUMAS participants are paired with a scientific mentor at Gladstone to work on a specific research project. They spend 75% of their time doing biomedical research, including independent research activities, receiving one-on-one mentoring, attending laboratory meetings, scientific lectures, seminars and journal clubs. They spend 25% of their time participating in supplementary educational activities, which include a week-long biotech boot-camp and a series of professional development workshops geared to inspire educationally disadvantaged students to persist through undergraduate and graduate school in the sciences. The PUMAS program culminates with a poster session in which students describe their work, hypothesis and findings to the scientific community at Gladstone.