ASCEND Training Model to Increase Diversity in the Biomedical Research Workforce

研究丰富核心(REC)的使命是丰富 摩根州立大学代表不足的少数族裔(URM)本科生，与 建设的总体目标是增加生物医学研究职业劳动力的多样性。这个 REC侧重于三个主要策略以丰富研究：1)促进和支持学生的 科学研究中心(SSRC)的活动；2)举办暑期研究所(SRI)，重点是 关于健康科学多学科研究的导论、选题和写作 最初的拨款建议；以及3)在SRI之后提供适当的指导，以改进建议，进行 研究、分析统计数据和写作。我们的许多学生最初接触到 跨学科的生物医学研究将通过参与SSRC进行。预计会有50个 摩根州立大学每个新生队列的学生都将成为SSRC的成员。这个 学生接触研究的第二阶段将是通过他们在暑期研究的注册 研究所。在SRI，学生将接受多个生物医学研究学科的培训(例如， 生物学、公共卫生、心理学和社会学)，将学习多学科研究，并将学习 研究思路是如何形成的。REC将与学生培训核心合作，选择30个 每个年度暑期研究所的学生。SRI结束后，学生培训核心，在 与REC合作，每年将挑选20名学生作为提升学者。在REC的培训是 直接专注于与研究相关的活动，如在SRI期间撰写提案，丰富了 在SRI之后提出建议，并确保学生在SRI期间得到足够的指导和支持 在执行其项目、分析数据以及撰写和编写报告和出版物方面。

The mission of the Research Enrichment Core (REC) is to enrich the research experience of underrepresented minority (URM) undergraduate students at Morgan State University, aligned with the overal goal of the BUILD inititative of increasing diversity of the biomedical research career workforce. The REC focuses on three main strategies in order to enrich research: 1) Facilitate and support the Students' Scientific Research Center's (SSRC) activities; 2) Conduct a Summer Research Institute (SRI), with a focus on introduction to multidisciplinary research in the health sciences, choosing research topics, and writing an initial grant proposal; and 3) Offer adequate mentoring after the SRI for improving proposals, conducting research, analysing statistical data, and writing. The initial exposure of many of our students to interdisciplinary biomedical research will be through engagement in the SSRC. It's expected that 50 students from each incoming cohort at Morgan State University will become members of the SSRC. The second phase of exposure of students to research will be through their enrollment in the Summer Research Institute. In the SRI, the students will receive training in multiple biomedical research disciplines (e.g., biology, public health, psychology, and sociology), will learn about multidisciplinary research, and will learn how research ideas are formed. The REC, in collaboration with the Student Training Core, will select 30 students for each annual Summer Research Institute. After an SRI ends, the Student Training Core, in collaboration with the REC, will select 20 students each year as ASCEND scholars. Training in the REC is focused directly on research-related activities, such as proposal writing during the SRI, enriching the proposal after SRI, and making sure that the students receive adequate mentoring and support during the execution of their project, in the analysis of data, and in writing and preparing reports and publications.