Kansas Bridges to the Future

堪萨斯通往未来的桥梁

• 批准号: 9151154
• 负责人: JOHN B BUCKWALTER
• 金额: $ 27.27万
• 依托单位: KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-08-01 至 2021-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9151154
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Kansas State University and three community colleges from southwest Kansas, Dodge City Community College, Garden City Community College, and Seward County Community College, have had a thriving Kansas Bridges to the Future partnership during the past eleven years. During academic year 2014-15, the project had a NIH no-cost extension; therefore, this new proposal is seeking NIH support for a new five-year grant cycle. To date, 104 students from first generation and often immigrant families have transferred to Kansas State University. The families of the majority of the Bridges to the Future students have migrated from Spanish- speaking countries to work in the meat packing plants and agricultural industries where they work long hours and encounter numerous financial, health, language, and cultural challenges. Twenty-one Bridges students are currently enrolled at K-State; 65 Bridges students have graduated with baccalaureate degrees from K-State; 35 have pursued advanced research degrees or entered professional biomedical programs of study including five who are currently enrolled in Ph.D. programs, six have completed master's degrees; and 17 are working on or have completed medical related degrees. Community college students are ready to enroll in Bridges pending funding. This proposal shows the solid support from all four colleges to maintain a critical and successful path for Bridges students to enter the university in the following ways: 1) by building relationships with the students and their families while at the community colleges; 2) by bringing students and their families to K-State to help them become familiar with the larger campus, the support staff, and previously matriculated Bridge students; 3) by providing an established, highly successful undergraduate research program, the Developing Scholars Program, to support them academically and personally; and 4) by providing seminars, workshops, lab experiences, and research internships to help students explore their options in biomedical and behavioral sciences. Through the Bridges program students are prepared to succeed in graduate school and establish thriving professional careers. Kansas State University will continue to provide tuition for three years of study at the university, thus removing what could have been an insurmountable obstacle. Each of the community colleges will also continue to provide tuition scholarships to Bridges students to complete their associate degrees. The overall goal of this project is to increase the number of underrepresented students with baccalaureate degrees in biomedical and behavioral science and to set into motion pathways designed to increase the number of Ph.D.s, M.D.s, and other professional doctorates in the biomedical and behavioral sciences.

堪萨斯州立大学和来自堪萨斯西南部、道奇城的三所社区学院 社区学院、花园城市社区学院和苏厄德县社区学院， 在过去的11年里，“堪萨斯通向未来之桥”的合作伙伴关系蓬勃发展。 在2014-15学年，该项目有一个NIH免费扩展;因此，这个新的 该提案正在寻求NIH支持新的五年拨款周期。迄今为止，104名学生从第一 很多移民家庭都转学到了堪萨斯州立大学。的 大多数“未来之桥”学生的家庭都是从西班牙移民过来的， 在肉类加工厂和农业行业工作， 工作时间长，面临许多财务、健康、语言和文化挑战。 21名桥梁学生目前在K州注册; 65名桥梁学生有 毕业于K州的学士学位; 35人从事高级研究 学位或进入专业生物医学课程的研究，包括五个谁是目前 读博士计划，六个已完成硕士学位;和17个正在工作或 已完成医学相关学位。社区大学的学生们已经准备好 桥梁有待供资。这项建议显示了所有四所学院的坚定支持， 保持桥梁学生进入大学的关键和成功的道路， 通过以下方式：1）在学校期间与学生及其家人建立关系， 社区学院; 2）将学生及其家人带到K州，帮助他们成为 熟悉更大的校园，支持人员，和以前录取的桥梁学生; 3)通过提供一个既定的，非常成功的本科研究计划， 发展学者计划，在学术和个人方面支持他们;以及4）通过 提供研讨会，讲习班，实验室经验和研究实习，以帮助学生 探索他们在生物医学和行为科学方面的选择。通过桥梁计划 学生准备在研究生院取得成功，并建立繁荣的专业 careers.堪萨斯州立大学将继续提供三年的学费， 大学，从而消除了可能是不可逾越的障碍。每个 社区学院也将继续为布里奇斯学生提供学费奖学金， 完成副学士学位。该项目的总体目标是增加 生物医学和行为科学学士学位学生人数偏低 并启动旨在增加博士、医学博士和其他 生物医学和行为科学的专业博士学位。