The Leadership Alliance Innovative Programs to Enhance Research Training (TLA-IPERT)

 描述（由申请人提供）：本IPERT提案的目标是提高不同学者的准备和竞争力，因为他们培训并进入学术界和生物医学，行为和临床研究科学的更广泛的研究队伍。我们将利用领导力联盟，这是30多个少数民族成员服务和博士学位授予机构之间建立的机构间伙伴关系。这些学院和大学有超过二十年的合作经验，以加强在生物医学，行为和临床科学的不同学者的培训。IPERT的合作机构包括布朗大学、莫尔豪斯学院、斯佩尔曼学院、芝加哥大学、宾夕法尼亚大学和范德比尔特大学，但我们预计，随着我们建立和开发新的技能发展、指导和推广战略，该计划将扩大到包括所有联盟学校。计划参与者将包括本科生，研究生和高级学位获得者，包括博士后研究员和早期职业教师或专业人员。基于领导力联盟夏季研究计划和研讨会的优势，我们将在整个学年中扩展指导和技能发展活动，并将这些资源扩展到现有的学者和学员联盟网络之外。我们将开发新的短期课程和讲习班，促进本科生，研究生和高级学位获得者的关键科学和研究技能的发展。来自IPERT合作机构的教师导师将密切合作，开发课程和研讨会内容。拟议开展虚拟辅导活动，以吸引来自不同背景的广大学者和榜样参与，并提供一个传播资源、战略和联系人的机制，以促进全国受众之间的辅导和外联。还将结合联盟一年两次的会议，每年在当地提供两次职业建设辅导。最后，采取多管齐下的外展方法，邀请联盟博士学位获得者沿着来自IPERT伙伴机构的教师和博士后研究员进行以研究为重点或促进职业发展的讲座，建立新的资源来阐明研究职业，并为本科生、教师导师和研究生提供旅行奖励，以参加专业协会会议。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this IPERT proposal is to increase the preparedness and competitiveness of diverse scholars as they train for and enter careers in academia and the broader research workforce in the biomedical, behavioral and clinical research sciences. We will leverage the Leadership Alliance, an established inter-institutional partnership among more than 30 member minority serving and PhD granting institutions. These colleges and universities have over twenty years of experience working together to enhance the training of diverse scholars in the biomedical, behavioral and clinical sciences. Partnering institutions for the IPERT include Brown University, Morehouse College, Spelman College, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, and Vanderbilt University, though we anticipate that the program will grow to include all Alliance schools as we build upon and develop new skill development, mentoring and outreach strategies. Program participants will include undergraduates, graduate students and advanced degree recipients, including postdoctoral fellows and early career faculty or professionals. Building on the strengths of the Leadership Alliance summer research program and symposium, we will extend mentoring and skill development activities throughout the academic year and expand these resources beyond the extant Alliance network of scholars and trainees. We will develop new short courses and workshops that promote the development of critical scientific and research skills for undergraduates, graduate students and advanced degree recipients. Faculty mentors from IPERT partner institutions will work closely to develop course and workshop content. Virtual mentoring activities are proposed to engage a wide community of scholars and role models from diverse backgrounds, as well as to provide a mechanism for dissemination of resources, strategies, and contacts for advancing mentorship and outreach across national audiences. Career building mentorship will also be provided locally twice a year in conjunction with the Alliance's biannual meetings. Lastly, a multi-pronged outreach approach that enlists Alliance doctoral degree recipients along with faculty and postdoctoral fellows from IPERT partner institutions to give research-focused or career- promoting talks, establishes new resources to shed light on research careers, and provides travel awards for undergraduates, faculty mentors and graduate students to attend a professional society meeting.