G-RISE at UC Merced

我们提出了一个跨学科生物医学科学与技术的研究生研究培训计划 (i-BioSTeP)在加州大学默塞德分校，这是一家服务于西班牙裔的机构，成立于2005年。这个 该计划的主要目标是在加州大学建立第一个博士水平的研究生培养计划 梅赛德在生物医学科学方面培养不同的学生识别和解决紧迫问题 使用定量的跨学科方法解决生物学问题，使他们为竞争做好准备 生物医学领域的职业。生物医学研究领域的变革性进展日益增多 需要来自许多不同领域的贡献，i-BioSTeP利用独特的跨学科 在UCM的结构，加入来自六个不同部门的教职员工组成一个多样化的、跨学科的 对研究和教育有共同愿景的研究社区。因为UCM仍在其 在发展阶段，像i-BioSTeP这样的倡议可以通过建立一个 高质量的校园培训和研究的核心。作为计划的一部分，我们将建立一个I- BioSTeP指定的重点(研究生辅修)向所有理工科研究生开放 谁参与了我们正在开发的新课程，从而加强了整体的研究生培训 校园里的课程。为高技能的生物医学研究人员开设培训计划 明天的加州大学默塞德分校也将对该地区产生巨大影响，产生一批不同的 受过培训的专业人员，将提高周围地区的经济和教育水平 和经济上的弱势群体。 我们方案的具体目标是：(一)增加受训人员群体的多样性；(二)确保 保留和加快获得学位的时间(Iii)培养具有广泛培训的毕业生 生物医学的跨学科课程和(Iv)灌输归属感和 团队合作技能和(V)确保成功过渡到生物医学研究人员队伍。确实有 我们提议的计划的许多独特方面专门针对这些目标，包括 我们目前的研究生群体和申请者群体的多样性，我们的目标是一个核心的跨学科 带有实验室组件的课程，这是一个夏季桥梁计划，旨在解决以下问题 在上课前两个月把学生带出来，让他们沉浸在实践培训和辅导中 和专业发展，如奖学金建议书撰写，跨学科的多重导师 结构和独特的职业发展计划，专注于在职业生涯中至关重要的特定技能 生物医学研究人员，但通常不在此类培训计划中涉及- 商业/创业技能和科学交流技能。

We propose a graduate research training program in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Science and Technology (I-BioSTeP) at the University of California Merced, a Hispanic-serving institution that opened in 2005. The major objective of this program is the establishment of the first doctoral level graduate training program at UC Merced in the biomedical sciences to train diverse cohorts of students to identify and solve pressing biological problems using quantitative interdisciplinary approaches that prepare them for competitive careers in the biomedical field. Transformative advances in the biomedical research arena increasingly require contributions from many different fields and I-BioSTeP leverages the uniquely interdisciplinary structure at UCM, to join faculty from six different departments forming a diverse, interdisciplinary research community with a common vision for research and education. Because UCM is still in its developmental stages, an initiative like I-BioSTeP can have truly transformative impact by establishing a nucleus of high quality training and research on campus. As part of the program we will establish an I- BioSTeP designated emphasis (a graduate minor) open to all graduate students in science and engineering who participate in the new coursework we are developing, thus enhancing the overall graduate training offerings on campus. Opening a training program for the highly skilled biomedical research workforce of tomorrow at UC Merced will also have an enormous impact on the region, producing a diverse cohort of trained professionals that will raise the economic and educational standards of the surrounding educationally and economically disadvantaged communities. The specific objectives of our program are (i) to increase the diversity of our trainee cohorts (ii) to ensure retention and speed up the time to degree (iii) to produce graduates with a broad training in an interdisciplinary curriculum for biomedical sciences and (iv) to inculcate a sense of belonging and teamwork skills and (v) to ensure successful transition into the biomedical research workforce. There are many unique aspects of our proposed program that specifically address these objectives including the diversity of our current graduate student body and applicant pool that we target, a core interdisciplinary curriculum of courses with lab components, a summer bridge program that addresses retention by bringing students out two months before classes and immersing them in hands-on training, mentoring and professional development such as fellowship proposal writing, an interdisciplinary multiple mentor structure and a unique career development program that focuses on specific skills that are important in the biomedical research workforce but are commonly not addressed in such training programs - business/entrepreneurial skills and science communication skills.