UMDNJ-Rutgers University Pipeline Program

产品说明：该提案旨在更新最大化学生多样性奖的倡议，该倡议支持UMDNJ-罗格斯大学管道计划，该计划旨在增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）博士的培训和毕业。生物医学科学家这个IMSD是基于分子生物科学研究生课程伞（MBS），并支持73研究生在过去的12年，其中30人已获得博士学位。并继续从事科学事业或进一步培训，另有25人仍在这里接受培训，2人在其他机构接受培训。这个IMSD一直是增加博士数量的催化剂。候选人在MBS程序（目前50），并更新此补助金和补充桥梁博士学位和机构计划的增长将增加这一数字。在上一个资助期间，IMSD学员的流失率仅为5%，我们希望保持或改善这一记录。自IMSD成立以来，MBS课程中URM候选人的流失率一直低于整体学生人数，表明课程成功。IMSD学员的支持服务包括认知技能评估和培训，学生辅导计划，学生健康计划，灵活的课程，学科选择的灵活性，活跃的生物科学研究生协会和教师导师的支持小组。一个新的定量问题必修课程有助于为科学职业培训学员。这所学校致力于通过授予博士学位，所有表现良好的IMSD受训者在IMSD资助后都得到了这样的支持，包括许多获得国家卫生研究院或国家科学基金会奖学金的人，或者得到培训或研究赠款的人。在下一个阶段，我们建议增加一个必要的科学写作课程和基因组分析的实验室练习（这将是现有课程的一部分）。评估表明，我们的计划的成功是基于，在某种程度上，由学员作为生物医学科学家的MBS计划的一部分，而不是作为某种方式分离的一部分，具体为URM学员的程序的识别。评估计划研究社会认同，社会支持和自我效能如何受到方案组成部分的影响，并有助于学员的整体成功。 公共卫生相关性：最大限度地提高学生多样性奖的倡议更新的这一申请是为了支持来自不同背景的研究生的培训，其目标是增加在生物医学研究事业中代表性不足的少数民族的参与。该计划包括多种支持机制，以促进学员的成功，包括研究培训的工资和学费，发展必要技能的学术培训，学习和时间管理技能的发展以及促进学员作为科学家的身份。根据对该方案的评价，正在继续进行成功的组成部分，并增加新的组成部分，包括科学写作的新必修课程和计算机化基因组分析的实验室练习。预计该校园的少数族裔学员人数将增加，他们获得博士学位的成功率也将增加。并进入科学事业，目标成功率超过90%。

DESCRIPTION: This proposal is for renewal of an Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Award, which supports the UMDNJ-Rutgers University Pipeline Program, which aims to increase the training and graduation of underrepresented minority (URM) Ph.D. biomedical scientists. This IMSD is based in the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Programs umbrella (MBS), and has supported 73 graduate students over the past 12 years, 30 of whom have received the Ph.D. and gone on to scientific careers or further training, with 25 more still in training here and 2 in other institutions. This IMSD has been the catalyst for increasing the number of Ph.D. candidates in the MBS programs (currently 50), and renewal of this grant and the growth of complementary Bridge to the Doctorate and institutional programs will increase that number. In the previous funding period, the attrition rate among IMSD trainees was only 5%, and we hope to maintain or improve that record. Since the inception of the IMSD, the attrition rate of URM candidates in the MBS programs has been below that of the overall student population, indicating program success. Support services for IMSD trainees include cognitive skills evaluation and training, a student tutoring program, student wellness program, flexible curriculum, flexibility in disciplinary selection, an active Biosciences Graduate Student Association and a supportive group of faculty mentors. A new required Quantitative Problems course helps to prepare trainees for science careers. This school is committed to continuous support of all graduate students through award of the Ph.D., and all IMSD trainees in good standing have had such support after IMSD funding, including many who have won individual NIH or NSF fellowships or have been supported by training or research grants. In the next period we propose to add a required scientific writing course and a laboratory exercise in genomic analysis (which will be part of an existing course). Evaluation has suggested that success of our program is based, in part, on identification by the trainees as biomedical scientists as part of the MBS programs rather than as somehow separated as part of a program specific for URM trainees. Evaluation is planned to study how social identity, social support and self-efficacy are impacted by program components and contribute to overall success of trainees. Public Health Relevance: This application for renewal of an Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Award is to support the training of graduate students from diverse backgrounds with the goal of increasing participation of underrepresented minorities in biomedical research careers. The program includes multiple support mechanisms to promote the success of trainees, including salary and tuition for research training, academic training to develop necessary skills, development of study and time management skills and promotion of trainee identity as scientists. Based on evaluation of the program, successful components are being continued and new components are being added, including a new required course in scientific writing and a laboratory exercise in computerized genomic analysis. It is anticipated that the large number of minority trainees on this campus will increase, as will their rate of success in obtaining the Ph.D. and entering scientific careers, with a targeted success rate of over 90%.