University of Wisconsin-Madison Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (PREP) for increasing diversity in STEM

项目总结 威斯康星大学麦迪逊分校(UW)是一所充满活力的研究机构，旨在建立一年制的 学士学位后研究教育计划(UW-PREP)为代表不足的少数族裔培养技能 (URM)学生成功地在生物医学劳动力中获得领导角色。这样做的目的是 该计划是为学生申请，入学，然后从杰出的博士(博士)毕业做准备。 来自威斯康星州和全国各地的节目。虽然华盛顿大学拥有广泛的URM STEM倡议 从高中到本科生、研究生、博士后和教师课程，建立 UW-Prep将解决我们编程中的一个缺口。UW-PREP的使命有三个：1)提供 为参与者提供机会和基于证据的平台，学习如何设计和实施有影响力的、 严谨和可重复的科学研究；2)促进参与者在专业领域的成长 促进自我意识和倡导，建立科学沟通技能，并加强 作为科学家的身份认同；以及3)促进指导、研究诚信和终身的包容性文化 学习。UW-Prep将建立，主要侧重于以下方面的指导研究经验 参与者将沉浸在开发设计和进行严格的、符合道德的研究所需的技能中。这个 华盛顿大学拥有优秀的资源和基础设施，可以支持创新和有影响力的研究。准备 研究教育活动将根据最近开发和出版的UW-Enter Research进行设计 课程，是以证据为基础的积极学习活动的集合。活动将加强严谨的重要性 以及负责任的研究行为的可重复性和基础，这也将是他们所指导的固有的 实验室经验。它们还旨在帮助学生制定他们的个人发展计划(IDP) 并将纳入专业发展活动，以建立特定于STEM的社会资本，以驾驭 大型研究机构学术研究空间的隐性课程。教师顾问和替补教师 导师将参加围绕六项核心能力设计的循证导师培训课程： 协调预期、有效沟通、评估理解、解决公平和包容性问题、促进 独立，促进专业发展。预科领导力和资助的多元化教职员工享受 出色的机构支持和循证课程的协调，以建立将有助于 将训练有素、信心十足的URM学者引入生物医学工作队伍。

PROJECT SUMMARY The University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW) is a vibrant research institution that seeks to establish a one-year Postbaccalaureate Research Education Program (UW-PREP) to develop skills for underrepresented minority (URM) students to be successful in gaining leadership roles in the biomedical workforce. The goals of this program are to prepare students to apply, matriculate, and then graduate from outstanding doctoral (Ph.D.) programs from the UW and throughout the country. While the UW hosts a wide range of URM STEM initiatives ranging from high school through undergraduate, graduate, postdoctoral and faculty programs, the establishment of UW-PREP will address a gap in our programming. The mission of the UW-PREP is threefold: 1) to provide opportunities and evidence-based platforms for participants to learn how to design and conduct impactful, rigorous and reproducible scientific research; 2) to foster the growth of participants in areas of professional development that promote self-awareness and advocacy, build science communication skills, and reinforce an identity as a scientist; and 3) to advance an inclusive culture of mentoring, research integrity, and life-long learning. The UW-PREP will be established with a primary focus on a mentored research experience in which participants will be immersed in developing skills needed to design and conduct rigorous, ethical research. The UW has outstanding resources and infrastructure in place to support innovative and impactful research. PREP Research Education Activities will be designed on recent UW-developed and published Entering Research curricula, a collection of evidence-based active learning activities. Activities will reinforce the importance of rigor and reproducibility and foundations of responsible conduct of research that will also be inherent to their mentored laboratory experience. They are also designed to help students devise their Individual Development Plan (IDP) and will incorporate Professional Development activities to build STEM-specific social capital to navigate the hidden curriculum of academic research spaces in a large research institution. Faculty advisors and benchside mentors will participate in evidence-based Mentor Training curricula designed around six core competencies: Align Expectations, Communicate Effectively, Assess Understanding, Address Equity and Inclusion, Foster Independence, and Promote Professional Development. PREP Leadership and funded, diverse faculty enjoy outstanding institutional support and coordination of evidence-based curricula to build a PREP that will help to launch exceptionally trained and confident URM scholars into the biomedical workforce.