NIH MBRS IMSD Program at the University of Colorado

描述（由申请人提供）：科罗拉多大学博尔德分校（CU-博尔德）建议继续全面努力，提供学术和丰富的活动，为研究生院准备代表性不足的学生，并招募和毕业代表性不足的博士。生物医学科学领域的学生。CU-Boulder将继续其成功的NIH/HHMI学者计划，该计划始于2003年，最初由IMSD提供资金。这个多年计划允许本科生在教师导师的指导下从事研究，学习实验室技术和探索科学道德，培养批判性阅读和整合研究文章所需的技能，并获得通过论文和科学演讲展示研究成果的能力。该计划还提供GRE准备和研讨会上的研究生院申请过程和撰写个人陈述。CU-Boulder招聘和准备学生的程序，通过接触传入的工程新生生物工程研究通过由多元文化工程计划提供的夏桥计划，并通过提供实验室经验，早期职业本科生通过IMSD资助的探索研究计划。CU-Boulder在本科阶段的IMSD努力旨在在学术生涯的早期识别有才华的学生，并使他们能够进入研究生院。拟议的IMSD计划还将每年支持6名博士生，每人为期一到两年。CU-Boulder的目标资金吸引第一年的博士生到CU-Boulder，将先进的学生从教学转移到研究助理，并在必要时提供其他外部来源之间的桥梁资金。 CU-Boulder迄今为止的努力非常成功。在11位获得学士学位的NIH/HHMI学者中，有一位是博士。有两个在MD。计划，三个是在后学士学位计划申请博士学位。或者医学博士程序.一个博士毕业生是哥伦比亚大学的博士后研究员。我们的研究生和本科生参与者已经产生了15个同行评审的出版物。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Colorado at Boulder (CU-Boulder) proposes the continuation of a comprehensive effort to offer academic and enrichment activities to prepare underrepresented students for graduate school, and to recruit and graduate underrepresented Ph.D. students in biomedical science fields. CU-Boulder will continue its successful NIH/HHMI Scholars program, which was begun in 2003 with initial IMSD funding. This multi-year program allows undergraduate students to engage in research under the guidance of a faculty mentor, learn laboratory techniques and explore scientific ethics, develop the skills required to critically read and integrate research articles, and acquire competence in presenting research results through papers and scientific presentations. The program also provides GRE preparation and workshops on both the application process for graduate school and writing personal statements. CU-Boulder recruits and prepares students for the program by exposing incoming engineering freshmen to bioengineering research through a summer bridge program offered by the Multicultural Engineering Program, and by offering lab experience to early career undergraduates through an IMSD-funded Exploring Research program. CU-Boulder's IMSD effort at the undergraduate level is designed to identify talented students early in their academic careers and keep them in the pipeline for graduate school. The proposed IMSD program will also support 6 doctoral students each year for one to two years each. CU-Boulder targets funding to attract first year doctoral students to CU-Boulder, to move advanced students from teaching to research assistantships, and to provide bridge funding between other external sources when necessary. CU-Boulder's efforts to date have been highly successul. Of the eleven NIH/HHMI Scholars that have graduated with baccalaureate degrees, one is in a Ph.D. program, two are in M.D. programs, and three are in post-baccalaureate programs with plans to apply to Ph.D. or M.D. programs. The one Ph.D. graduate is a postdoctoral fellow at Columbia University. Our graduate and undergraduate participants have produced 15 peer-reviewed publications.