Promoting Underrepresented Minority Advancement in the Sciences (PUMAS)

项目摘要/摘要 我们的计划，促进科学中未被充分代表的少数民族进步(美洲狮)的目标是 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学生提供暑期研究机会 在科学界的代表性不足。当代表不足的少数族裔(URM)学生获得第一手资料 在像Gladstone这样最先进的实验室里的经验，他们更有准备主修科学当 他们转到一个四年制的机构。这增加了申请研究生院的城市管理人员的数量 并使生物医学研究多样化。 美洲狮计划招收目前在社区大学就读的学生，他们有 成功完成了至少两个学期的大学水平的理科课程，其中包括实验部分 (化学和分子生物学优先，但不是必需的)，并打算转到4年制院校 攻读科学、技术、工程或数学(STEM)学士学位。我们的目标是我们的 向我们学校方圆60英里范围内的23所社区大学推广美洲狮项目。主要是 向我们目标校区的科学系主任和转学中心营销，也向数学专业营销， 北加州工程、科学成就(MESA)主任。MESA是一个创建用于 培养加州未来的STEM劳动力，支持学生成功转到4年制 STEM专业的大学。我们选择把重点放在社区学院的学生身上，因为这些人 经常被忽视，而且在#年的高等教育机构中，少数民族入学率最高 我们的州。 每年夏天，在为期9周的时间里，美洲狮的参与者会与格莱斯顿大学的一名科学导师配对，以 从事特定的研究项目。他们将75%的时间花在生物医学研究上，包括 独立研究活动，接受一对一指导，参加实验室会议，科学研究 讲座、研讨会和杂志俱乐部。他们花了25%的时间参加补充教育 活动，包括为期一周的生物技术新兵训练营和一系列专业发展讲习班 旨在激励受教育困难的学生坚持读完本科和研究生 在科学界。美洲狮项目以海报环节结束，在海报环节中，学生们描述他们的工作， 向格拉德斯通的科学界介绍假说和发现。

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.