Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity in Biomedical and Behavioral Sciences

最大限度地提高生物医学和行为科学学生多样性的倡议

• 批准号: 7595032
• 负责人: TRUDY F. MACKAY
• 金额: $ 52.49万
• 依托单位: NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY RALEIGH
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-04-01 至 2012-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7595032
• 关键词: Address; Bachelor' s Degree; Behavioral; Behavioral Research; Behavioral Sciences; Biological Sciences; Biomedical Research; Chemicals; Complement; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Engineering; Enrollment; Ensure; Environment; Faculty; Fellowship; Financial Support; Fostering; Funding; Future; Genetic; Goals; Graduate Education; Hand; Healthcare; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Individual; Institution; Knowledge; Master of Science; Medical; Mentors; Minority; Minority Groups; Molecular Toxicology; Movement; North Carolina; Population; Postdoctoral Fellow; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Schools; Services; Students; Sum; Talents; Technology; Time; Training; Training Programs; Training Support; Underrepresented Minority; United States; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Ursidae Family; base; career; college; design; experience; graduate student; innovative technologies; next generation; programs; role model; skills; social; statistics; success; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Achieving a diverse biomedical research workforce is important to effectively advance knowledge and create innovative technologies and treatments. To reduce health care disparities and to bring critical social and cultural perspectives to bear on issues related to biomedical research among groups who are typically underrepresented in the research arena, diversity among research professionals is crucial. A new Initiative to Maximize Student Diversity (IMSD) will use a two-tier approach to increase the number of underrepresented minority (URM) students who receive Ph.D. degrees and engage in research in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The first tier will support and train 35 undergraduate students by: (1) providing courses and seminars to introduce students to explore potential careers in biomedical and behavioral sciences; (2) substantially enhancing our current educational and professional development activities; (3) expanding support for mentored research opportunities; and (4) training and preparing them to enroll in and complete a Ph.D. program in biomedical or behavioral research. The second tier will create 9 new graduate student assistantships in biomedical and behavioral research for students from underrepresented groups. Students will receive two years of financial support from IMSD, with subsequent support coming from their respective departments, external funding, or individual research fellowships. Our proposed NIH IMSD project will complement existing and highly successful NSF-funded AGEP and NIH-supported Bridges and T32 training programs, creating a unified plan through the education continuum. We will foster a positive exploratory environment with supportive programming, guidance and recognition for URM students to complete Ph.D. degrees in biomedical and behavioral science research, to ultimately become the faculty researchers and role models for the next generation. Achieving a diverse biomedical research workforce is important to effectively advance knowledge and create innovative technologies and treatments. To reduce health care disparities and to bring critical social and cultural perspectives to bear on issues related to biomedical research among groups who are typically underrepresented in the research arena, diversity among research professionals is crucial. Realizing this goal of workforce diversity in the United States continues to be a challenge, one which this IMSD proposal will address.

描述（由申请人提供）：实现多样化的生物医学研究队伍对于有效地推进知识和创造创新技术和治疗非常重要。为了减少保健方面的差距，并使在研究领域代表性不足的群体对与生物医学研究有关的问题产生批判性的社会和文化观点，研究专业人员之间的多样性至关重要。一项旨在最大限度提高学生多样性的新倡议（IMSD）将采用两层方法来增加获得博士学位并从事生物医学和行为科学研究的少数族裔（URM）学生的数量。第一阶段将通过以下方式支持和培训35名本科生：(1)提供课程和研讨会，引导学生探索生物医学和行为科学的潜在职业；(2)大幅加强我们目前的教育和专业发展活动；(3)扩大对受指导研究机会的支持；(4)培训和准备他们参加并完成生物医学或行为研究的博士课程。第二梯队将为来自代表性不足群体的学生创建9个新的生物医学和行为研究研究生助学金。学生将从IMSD获得两年的经济支持，随后的支持来自各自的部门，外部资金或个人研究奖学金。我们提议的NIH IMSD项目将补充现有的和非常成功的nsf资助的AGEP和NIH支持的桥梁和T32培训项目，通过教育连续体创建一个统一的计划。我们将营造一个积极的探索环境，为URM学生提供支持性的规划，指导和认可，以完成生物医学和行为科学研究的博士学位，最终成为下一代的教师研究人员和榜样。