Virginia Commonwealth University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

弗吉尼亚联邦大学最大化学生发展倡议

• 批准号: 8997511
• 负责人: HAMID I AKBARALI
• 金额: $ 34.52万
• 依托单位: VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-03-15 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8997511
• 关键词: Academic achievement; Address; Biology; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Career Choice; Communication; Complement; Critical Thinking; Data; Development; Discipline; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Status; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Ensure; Funding; Future; Goals; Health; Healthcare; Humanities; Individual; Intervention; Leadership; Medicine; Mentors; Methods; Monitor; Paper; Performance; Personality; Positioning Attribute; Problem Solving; Productivity; Program Development; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Science; Self Efficacy; Students; System; Testing; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; Virginia; Visit; Vocational Guidance; Work; academic program; career; career awareness; career development; college; design; experience; graduate student; improved; insight; interest; medical schools; minority trainee; minority undergraduate; novel; novel strategies; peer; pre-doctoral; programs; skills; success; summer research; symposium; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student; web site

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) IMSD program was prompted by a self-study that indicated underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduates in STEM-H majors and PhD students in the biomedical sciences were underperforming in their academic programs. The aims of the original proposal were focused on PhD students in the biomedical sciences and Biology undergraduates and were largely designed to increase (a) numbers of URM biology majors who remained in the major, participated in undergraduate research, enrolled in biomedical PhD programs after completing the degree, and completed the PhD in biomedical disciplines and (b) improve academic performance and research productivity of URM students in the biomedical sciences. During the current period of support we have made significant progress towards achieving these goals. The program supported 23 URM undergraduates who participated in mentored research and provided academic/ career counseling to these individuals and countless more through the Undergraduate Research Coordinator in Biology, a position developed through a partnership between VCU-IMSD, VCU-MARC, and the VCU College of Humanities and Sciences. Both of the IMSD Undergraduate Scholars have finished the degree to date are pursuing additional training in the biomedical sciences. Seventy five percent of supported VCU-IMSD PhD students are making good progress towards their degrees and the first of these individuals will complete the PhD in spring or summer of 2013. We view these data as evidence that VCU-IMSD "is working", but also recognize the need for further program development to increase our success rate and improve the quality of the experience that we provide to trainees. To accomplish those goals, the specific aims of this competitive renewal are: (1) To provide mentored research experiences for 16 IMSD Undergraduate Scholars/ year and 4 IMSD PhD students/ year, (2): To use both well-tested and novel strategies to increase academic success of IMSD trainees, (3) To design and deliver enrichment activities that develop trainees' critical thinking/ problem solving skills, improve communications skills, increase awareness of careers that complement their interests and personalities, (4) To ensure that at least 60% of IMSD Undergraduate Scholars enroll in competitive PhD programs in the biomedical sciences, (5) To ensure that e 90% of IMSD Scholars who enroll complete PhD programs in the biomedical sciences, (6) To use aggressive recruiting strategies to increase URM applications to the Biomedical Sciences Doctoral Portal by 100%, and (7) To increase productivity of URM PhD students to be comparable to that of their peers. Focused mentoring and careful selection of research mentors will be used to enhance productivity of IMSD PhD students. We believe our aims are achievable and consistent with the goals of the IMSD Program "to develop the pool of a diverse group of highly trained undergraduate and graduate students who go on to research careers and will be available to participate in NIH-funded research."

描述（由申请人提供）：弗吉尼亚联邦大学（VCU）IMSD计划是由一项自我研究引起的，该研究表明，STEM-H专业的少数民族（URM）本科生和生物医学科学的博士生在他们的学术课程中表现不佳。最初提案的目的是集中在生物医学科学和生物学本科生的博士生，主要是为了增加（a）URM生物学专业的学生人数，他们留在专业，参加本科研究，在完成学位后参加生物医学博士课程，并完成了生物医学学科的博士学位和（B）提高URM学生在生物医学科学方面的学术成绩和研究生产力。在本支助期内，我们在实现这些目标方面取得了重大进展。该计划支持23 URM本科生谁参加了指导研究，并提供学术/职业咨询，这些人和无数的更多通过本科生研究协调员在生物学，通过VCU-IMSD，VCU-MARC之间的伙伴关系发展的立场，和人文科学的VCU学院。两名IMSD本科学者都已完成学位，目前正在接受生物医学科学的额外培训。75%的支持VCU-IMSD博士生正在朝着他们的学位取得良好的进展，其中第一个人将在2013年春季或夏季完成博士学位。我们将这些数据视为VCU-IMSD“正在发挥作用”的证据，但也认识到需要进一步开发计划，以提高我们的成功率并提高我们为学员提供的体验质量。为了实现这些目标，这次竞争性更新的具体目标是：（1）为16名IMSD本科学者/年和4名IMSD博士生/年提供指导研究经验，（2）：采用行之有效和新颖的策略来提高IMSD学员的学业成功率，（3）设计和提供丰富活动，培养学员的批判性思维/解决问题的能力，提高沟通技巧，提高对补充其兴趣和个性的职业的认识，（4）确保至少60%的IMSD本科学者参加生物医学科学的竞争性博士课程，（5）确保90%的IMSD学者参加生物医学科学的完整博士课程，（6）使用积极的招聘策略，以增加URM申请到生物医学科学博士门户网站的100%，和（7）提高URM博士生的生产力，使其与同龄人相当。重点指导和精心挑选的研究导师将用于提高IMSD博士生的生产力。我们相信我们的目标是可以实现的，并且与IMSD计划的目标一致，即“培养一批训练有素的本科生和研究生，他们将继续从事研究工作，并将参加NIH资助的研究。"