Maximizing Student Diversity in the Biomedical Sciences at Washington University

最大限度地提高华盛顿大学生物医学科学学生的多样性

• 批准号: 9265909
• 负责人: Cherilynn R Shadding
• 金额: $ 39.4万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-20 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9265909
• 关键词: Area; Biological; Biology; Country; Development; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Activities; Educational workshop; Ensure; Environment; Fellowship; Funding; Goals; Grant; High School Student; Home environment; Individual; Institution; Intervention; Journals; Knowledge; Learning; Life; Measures; Mentors; Michigan; Minority-Serving Institution; Mission; Molecular; National Institute of General Medical Sciences; Paper; Pathway interactions; Patient Care; Performance; Planets; Positioning Attribute; Privatization; Productivity; Qualifying; Recruitment Activity; Request for Applications; Research; Research Personnel; Risk; Schools; Science; Scientist; Series; Source; Structure; Students; Surveys; Talents; Teacher Professional Development; Time; Training; Underrepresented Students; United States; Universities; Visit; Washington; Work; Writing; base; career; clinical practice; cultural competence; design; expectation; experience; graduate student; improved; improved outcome; indexing; matriculation; member; post-doctoral training; programs; public health relevance; retention rate; self assembly; student training; success; tutoring; undergraduate student; webinar

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Diversity at the molecular level has created the diversity of all life forms ever to exist on this planet. Recent studies by Scott E. Page (Univ. Michigan) suggest increased diversity of thought, perspective and background among individuals working as part of a team enhances performance. Thus, the pursuit of knowledge and scientific excellence demands the inclusion of students from all backgrounds. This application requests support for a proposed 'Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity' (IMSD) program within the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (DBBS) at Washington University. The mission of the program is to increase the matriculation, training, retention, and graduation of outstanding PhD students from groups historically under-represented in the sciences. Specifically, in Aim 1, we seek to increase the number of students from under-represented backgrounds that matriculate to DBBS, as well as other universities, through the optimization and expansion of programs that expose undergraduate and high school students to lab-based science. In Aim 2, we seek to optimize the retention and training of IMSD students through a battery of educational activities purposefully designed to synergize with our students' thesis research. These activities include Summer Pre-matriculation and Pre-Orientation programs, a Great Papers Journal Club, as well as a Scientific Presentation Practice Club and Grant writing workshops. In Aim 3, we seek to develop activities that expose IMSD students to different career options and postdoctoral opportunities, as well as to potential postdoctoral mentors. We will draw IMSD students from all 12 PhD programs in DBBS and support them for their first two years. These students will be fully integrated within their individual graduate programs and, in addition, participate in the detailed IMSD educational initiatives. In order to maximize the impact of our IMSD program, we seek to select 'at-risk' students for the program - students that have demonstrated a talent for and determination in the pursuit of research-based science, but that also display deficiencies in their academic record. The educational components of the IMSD program are designed to enhance student training, increase productivity, and decrease time to degree, and are open to all students. Thus, we expect students from all programs to gravitate towards these educational initiatives, and our IMSD program to serve as a mechanism to enhance the training of and interaction among students in all of our graduate programs. In the long-term, we expect the IMSD program to facilitate the self-assembly of productive, diverse teams of scientists; the exact type of research teams required to attack and solve the key outstanding questions in the biological and biomedical sciences and to continue and enhance the tradition of scientific excellence in the United States.

描述（由申请人提供）：分子水平上的多样性创造了这个星球上存在的所有生命形式的多样性。密歇根大学（university of Michigan）的斯科特·e·佩奇（Scott E. Page）最近的研究表明，作为团队一部分的个人在思想、观点和背景方面的多样性增加，可以提高绩效。因此，对知识和科学卓越的追求需要包括来自不同背景的学生。本申请要求支持华盛顿大学生物和生物医学科学系（DBBS）拟议的“最大化学生多样性倡议”（IMSD）计划。该计划的使命是增加历史上在科学领域代表性不足的群体的优秀博士生的入学，培训，保留和毕业。具体来说，在目标1中，我们寻求通过优化和扩大本科生和高中生接触实验室科学的项目，增加来自代表性不足背景的学生进入DBBS以及其他大学的人数。在目标2中，我们寻求通过一系列有针对性的教育活动来优化IMSD学生的保留和培训，以配合学生的论文研究。这些活动包括夏季预科和预科课程，一个伟大的论文杂志俱乐部，以及一个科学演讲练习俱乐部和拨款写作研讨会。在目标3中，我们寻求开展活动，使IMSD学生接触到不同的职业选择和博士后机会，以及潜在的博士后导师。我们将从国际管理管理学院所有12个博士项目中招收学生，并在他们的前两年提供支持。这些学生将完全融入他们的个人研究生课程，此外，还将参与IMSD详细的教育活动。为了最大限度地发挥IMSD项目的影响力，我们寻求为该项目选择“有风险”的学生——那些在追求研究型科学方面表现出天赋和决心的学生，但他们的学习成绩也存在不足。IMSD项目的教育部分旨在加强学生培训，提高生产力，减少获得学位的时间，并向所有学生开放。因此，我们希望所有项目的学生都被这些教育计划所吸引，我们的IMSD项目将作为一种机制，加强我们所有研究生项目学生之间的培训和互动。从长远来看，我们希望IMSD项目能够促进富有成效的、多样化的科学家团队的自我组装；正是这种类型的研究团队需要攻击和解决生物和生物医学科学中的关键突出问题，并继续和加强美国科学卓越的传统。