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，使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中取得成功。特别是，我们希望协助和指导本科生，使他们能够在他们的数学和科学课程工作中脱颖而出，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，我们有活动，如学术卓越研讨会和夏季研讨会，以协助保留和毕业率。关于生物医学技术的实践夏季研讨会将帮助学生了解各种研究当前技术。每周一次的生物医学研讨会将帮助学生保持专注，并让他们与成功的科学家谁可以作为榜样互动。需要开设道德课程，以确保我们培养负责任的科学家。我们希望RISE计划将鼓励教师变得更加积极和富有成效的研究，如演示文稿，出版物，赠款和他们的研究学生的成功所证明的。通过帮助代表性不足的少数民族学生在他们的课程工作中脱颖而出，并希望继续在生物医学领域的高级学位，我们帮助开发受过教育的生物医学科学家，更好地反映在美国的人的民族和种族背景的数量增加，科学家的质量和多样性可以导致更多的发现，解决问题的新方法，总体而言，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.