Undergraduate Research Program to Promote Diversity in EHS

促进 EHS 多样性的本科研究计划

• 批准号: 9044778
• 负责人: Joseph H Graziano
• 金额: $ 11.01万
• 依托单位: COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-04-02 至 2020-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9044778
• 关键词: Academic Medical Centers; Admission activity; Cities; Collaborations; Country; Critical Thinking; Data Analyses; Education; Educational process of instructing; Ensure; Environmental Health; Faculty; Goals; Graduate Degree; Health; Hispanic-serving Institution; Hispanics; Human; Immersion Investigative Technique; Knowledge; Mentors; Mentorship; Middle School Student; Minority; Mission; New York; Participant; Population; Population Programs; Positioning Attribute; Process; Public Health Schools; Qualifying; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Project Grants; Resources; Rewards; Role; Schools; Scientist; Structure; Students; System; Training; Underrepresented Groups; Underrepresented Minority; Underrepresented Populations; Underrepresented Students; Universities; Work; career; college; doctoral student; experience; faculty mentor; graduate student; hands on research; health science research; high school; interest; lectures; member; minority undergraduate; programs; racial and ethnic; role model; skills; success; undergraduate research; undergraduate student

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The purpose of our proposed program, "Undergraduate Research Program to Promote Diversity" at Columbia University Environmental Health Sciences (EHS) Department in the Mailman School of Public Health, is to increase the pool of students from underrepresented populations who are interested in pursuing graduate degrees in environmental health sciences. While programs, such as IMSD, exist to support diversity students at the doctoral level, the challenge has been to identify qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds among those that apply to environmental health sciences graduate programs. To accomplish this we need to capture the interest of a wider group of students while they are still undergraduates and to further nurture those students who have shown an interest in EHS. We propose to accomplish this by involving undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds in a two year mentored research program. The program will include not only hands-on research with EHS faculty, but also seminars from faulty in EHS as well as doctoral candidates. We will provide students with training in professionalism, mentoring throughout their two years in the program and guidance with the graduate school application process. Undergraduates will be identified in collaboration with faculty at John Jay College, part of the City University of New York school system that is recognized as both a minority and Hispanic serving institution by the US Department of Education