U-RISE at Tennessee State University

田纳西州立大学 U-RISE

• 批准号: 10597709
• 负责人: MARGARET M WHALEN
• 金额: $ 26.84万
• 依托单位: TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10597709
• 关键词: Admission activity; African American; Biology; Biomedical Research; Chemistry; Community of Practice; Critical Thinking; Discipline; Doctor of Medicine; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Goals; Graduation Rates; Hispanic; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Measures; Paper; Participant; Psychology; Research; Research Training; Schools; Science; Students; Tennessee; Training and Education; Underrepresented Students; Universities; Work; career; experience; graduate school; graduate student; learning community; meetings; programs; psychosocial resources; retention rate; skills; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; verbal

PROJECT SUMMARY Tennessee State University (TSU) is a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) founded in 1912. A very high percentage of TSU undergraduate students are from groups historically under-represented (UR) in biomedical research. More than 95% of TSU undergraduates are UR with 79% African American, 2.1% Hispanic, and 0.19% Native/Am. Indian. The proposed TSU Undergraduate Research Training Initiative for Student Enhancement (U-RISE) program has the overarching goal of increasing the number of UR undergraduate students who pursue the necessary education/training (Ph.D. degrees in biomedicine) to engage in biomedical research careers. The TSU U-RISE program will provide the psychosocial resources, course work, and research experiences needed for students to progress from undergraduate school to graduate school (Ph.D. and M.D./Ph.D. programs). The proposed program will support 3 Junior and 3 Senior undergraduate students majoring in Biology, Chemistry, or Psychology. A number of strategies and activities are proposed to achieve the following specific goals of the program: 1. Increase the retention and 4-year graduation rates of students who participate in the TSU U-RISE program above those of TSU as a whole and of the departments participating in the TSU U-RISE program. The retention and graduation rates of the proposed U-RISE program trainees would be expected to be greater than 90%. 2. Prepare UR students who are pursuing a BS degree in Biology, Chemistry, or Psychology to apply to graduate programs in the biomedical sciences (specifically Ph.D. programs). The program will support 3 Junior and 3 Senior level students each year and aims to have a minimum of 2 of the 3 graduating students (67%) applying to PhD programs within 2 years of graduating. 3. Provide the course work, research experiences, and psychosocial resources (workshops, communities of practice, and learning communities) needed for students to gain acceptance to those Ph.D. programs to which they apply. Have 75% of those students who apply to Ph.D. programs (in a given 2-year period) gain acceptance within 2 years of graduating. 4. Develop critical thinking skills of TSU U-RISE trainees to prepare them for the level of analytical rigor needed for graduate program admission and completion. The GRE is to some extent a measure of these skills. The objective is to have average verbal and quantitative scores of 154 (64th percentile verbal, 53rd percentile quantitative) for those students who take the exam. Another measure of critical thinking skills will be the ability to critically discuss research papers, which will be assessed each semester in the current biomedical topics course. 5. Develop the presentation skills of TSU U-RISE program participants. Each of the first year U-RISE participants will present their research at a minimum of 2 scientific meetings per year (national, regional, or local). In the second year, students will present at 1 national discipline specific meeting and a minimum of 1 regional or local meeting.

项目摘要 田纳西州立大学（大津）是一所历史悠久的黑人学院/大学（HBCU），成立于1912年。一个非常 很高比例的大津本科生来自历史上代表性不足的群体， 生物医学研究超过95%的大津大学本科生是UR，其中非洲裔美国人占79%， 西班牙裔和0.19%的本地人/美国人。印度人拟议的大津大学本科生研究培训计划， 学生增强（U-RISE）计划的首要目标是增加UR的数量 本科生谁追求必要的教育/培训（博士）生物医学学位）， 从事生物医学研究事业。大津U-RISE计划将提供心理社会资源， 课程工作，和研究经验，需要学生从本科学校的进展， 研究生院（博士）M.D.博士程序）。该计划将支持3名少年和3名 生物、化学或心理学专业大四学生。若干战略 并提出了实现以下具体目标的活动方案：1.提高留存率 参加大津大学U-RISE项目的学生的4年毕业率高于 整个大津和参加大津U-RISE计划的各部门。保留和 拟议的U-RISE计划受训人员的毕业率预计将超过90%。2. 准备UR学生谁是追求生物学，化学，或心理学学士学位申请 生物医学科学研究生课程（特别是博士学位）程序）。该计划将支持3 每年有初中和3名高中学生，目标是3名毕业生中至少有2名 (67%）在毕业后2年内申请博士课程。3.提供课程工作，研究 经验和心理社会资源（研讨会、实践社区和学习 社区）需要学生获得接受那些博士学位。适用的方案。 有75%的申请博士学位的学生计划（在给定的2年期间）在2年内获得认可 年毕业。4.培养大津U-RISE学员的批判性思维技能， 研究生课程录取和完成所需的分析严谨性水平。GRE对一些人来说 来衡量这些技能。目标是平均口头和定量得分为154（第64位 第53百分位的量化）。另一个衡量 批判性思维能力将是批判性地讨论研究论文的能力，这将被评估， 在当前的生物医学主题课程学期。5.发展大津U-RISE的演讲技巧 方案参与者。每个第一年的U-RISE参与者将提出他们的研究在至少2 每年举行科学会议（国家、区域或地方）。在第二年，学生将出席1个国家 专业会议和至少1次区域或地方会议。