San Jose State University Undergraduate MBRS RISE Program

描述（由申请人提供）：本RISE提案的总体目标是提高机构研究和相关教育能力，以便圣何塞州立大学能够更好地为代表性不足的少数民族学生提供研究和学术经验，以确保在生物医学研究领域取得成功。特别是，我们希望帮助和指导本科生，使他们能够在数学和科学课程中脱颖而出，并与教师导师一起进行研究。我们希望看到学生平均成绩的提高，毕业率的提高，以及更多的学生选择攻读生物医学领域的研究生学位。为了帮助学生实现这一目标，我们举办了学术卓越研讨会和夏季研讨会等活动，以帮助学生保持和毕业率。夏季生物医学技术实践工作坊将帮助学生了解各种研究当前的技术。每周一次的生物医学研讨会将帮助学生保持专注，并允许他们与可以作为榜样的成功科学家互动。要确定我们培养的是负责任的科学家，就需要一门伦理学课程。我们希望RISE计划能够鼓励教师在研究方面更加活跃和富有成效，这可以通过演讲、出版物、资助和他们的研究学生的成功来证明。通过帮助未被充分代表的少数民族学生在他们的课程中取得优异成绩，并有希望继续获得生物医学领域的高级学位，我们帮助培养了一批受过良好教育的生物医学科学家，他们更好地反映了美国人民的民族和种族背景。科学家数量、质量和多样性的增加可以带来更多的发现，解决问题的新方法，总的来说，获得更多的知识，以帮助满足人口的健康需求。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of this RISE proposal is to improve institutional research and related educational capabilities so that San Jose State University can better provide underrepresented minority students with the research and academic experience to ensure successful careers in biomedical research. In particular, we wish to assist and mentor undergraduate students so that they can excel in their math and science course work and perform research with a faculty mentor. We hope to see improvements in student grade point averages, increased graduation rates and a larger fraction of students electing to pursue graduate degrees in biomedical fields. To help students accomplish this we have activities such as Academic Excellence Workshops and summer workshops to assist with retention and graduation rates. A hands-on summer workshop on biomedical techniques will help students learn about a variety of research current techniques. A weekly biomedical seminar will help students stay focused and allow them to interact with successful scientists who can serve as role models. An ethics course is required to ascertain that we prepare responsible scientists. We hope that the RISE program will encourage faculty to become more research active and productive as evidenced by presentations, publications, grants and the success of their research students. By assisting underrepresented minority students to excel in their course work and hopefully continue toward advanced degrees in biomedical fields, we help develop a pool of educated biomedical scientists that better reflect the ethnic and racial background of the people in the U.S. An increase in the number, quality and diversity of scientists can result in more discoveries, new approaches to problems and, overall, more knowledge gained to help serve the health needs of the population.