Maximizing Access to Research Careers

 描述（由申请人提供）：像它称之为家近140年的大部分城市一样，迪拉德大学（迪拉德）校园在2005年被卡特里娜飓风摧毁。此后，该大学强劲反弹，校园翻新和修复费用超过1.5亿美元，其中包括一个新的4300万美元，16万平方米。英尺专业科学楼。这有力地重申了该大学致力于培训其主要是当地学生的承诺，其中98%是非洲裔美国人，99%接受联邦财政援助。该大学致力于加强学生科学培训的进一步证据体现在与路易斯安那州州立大学健康科学中心（LSUHSC）建立了NIH资助的合作，该中心非常注重社区教育计划，以促进代表性不足的少数群体参与临床试验，沿着积极的计划，以加强与迪拉德的研究合作。我们建议利用迪拉德/ LSUHSC的合作伙伴关系，建立迪拉德MARC U* 星星荣誉计划，旨在提高迪拉德在发展代表性不足的少数民族生物医学和行为科学家的生产力。通过我们与LSUHSC新奥尔良的合作伙伴关系，学生将有机会在全州范围内获得教学，研究和医疗保健功能。该计划将通过扩大我们在生物学，化学和心理学方面具有浓厚兴趣的高素质学生群体来最大限度地发挥机构影响力，同时在未来五年内为40名学生提供专业培训，从选定的学生中选出 作为“MARC学者”，谁将受益于增强的课程，专业发展活动，和全年指导的研究经验。具体目标是目标1）发展和提高高素质和参与的学生对追求生物医学或行为研究相关的职业有浓厚的兴趣池;目标2）提供MARC学者一个特殊的高级课程，学术和专业发展，以及来自DU，LSUHSC或其他研究密集型机构的研究导师的监督下，全年的研究培训;目标3）通过为潜在的迪拉德MARC培训教师提供有针对性的专业发展，加强教学和研究培训的机构能力。预期成果是使高素质和有研究兴趣的学生人数增加一倍。至少70%的MARC学者将在获得学士学位的三年内进入生物医学科学博士课程。其影响将是在全国增加准备充分、代表性不足的生物医学和行为科学学生和人员的数量，并增强在这一领域作出持续贡献的机构能力。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Like much of the city it called home for nearly 140 years, the Dillard University (Dillard) campus was devastated in 2005 by Hurricane Katrina. The university has since rebounded strongly with more than $150 million spent in campus renovation and restoration, including a new $43 million, 160,000 sq. ft. professional science building. This is in strong reaffirmation of the university's commitment to the training of its mostly local studet population, which is 98% African American, with 99% receiving federal financial aid. Further evidence of the University's commitment to strengthen the training of its students in the sciences is demonstrated in the establishment of an NIH-funded collaboration with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC), which has a strong focus on community education programs to promote underrepresented minority interest in joining clinical trials, along with an aggressive plan to enhance research collaborations with Dillard. We propose to leverage this Dillard / LSUHSC partnership to establish the Dillard MARC U*STAR Honors Program, which aims to increase Dillard's productivity in developing underrepresented minority biomedical and behavioral scientists. Through our partnership with LSUHSC New Orleans, students will have access to teaching, research, and health care functions state-wide. This program will maximize institutional impact through the expansion of our pool of highly qualified students in biology, chemistry and psychology with a strong interest in research-related careers, while providing specialized training for 40 students over the next five years, from a pool selected as "MARC Scholars," who will benefit from an enhanced curriculum, professional development activities, and year-round mentored research experiences. Specific aims are to Aim 1) develop and enhance a pool of highly qualified and engaged students with strong interest in pursuing biomedical or behavioral research related careers; Aim 2) to provide MARC Scholars a special advanced curriculum, academic and professional development, as well as year-round research training under the supervision of research mentors from DU, LSUHSC, or other research-intensive institutions; Aim 3) to strengthen institutional capacity for teaching and research training by providing focused professional development for potential Dillard MARC training faculty. Expected outcomes are to double the number of highly qualified and research interested students. At least 70% of MARC Scholars will matriculate into doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences within three years of baccalaureate degree attainment. The impact will be increased numbers of well-prepared underrepresented biomedical and behavioral science students and personnel in the nation and enhanced institutional capacity for sustained contributions in this area.