MAXIMIZING STUDENT DIVERSITY IN THE BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

摘要：通过有目的的方案拟订和以社区为基础的外展努力，使服务不足 在社区，这项补充旨在促进学生的健康和复原力。学生从飞行员那里获得的反馈 拟议的活动突出了它们对学生幸福和复原力的不可磨灭的积极影响。两者都有 然而，活动是在大流行最严重的时候匆忙组织和实施的；两者都可以 显著改善。本附录的目标是花时间来组织、扩展和发展 这两项努力都是为了优化他们的能力，以推动学生的健康、弹性和成功。专门专注于 外展活动，我们将加强我们的IMSD和MARC主导的辅导和科学计划，通过制定 城市青年最佳实践研讨会，为12个月的学生领导创建详细的协议和资源 亲身实践科学演示，并与导师、学生、家长和当地高中的领导合作 学校和非营利组织，以提高计划的效率和可持续性。我们将加强 通过改进网站设计以促进更多学生的成功，我们的健康和弹性研讨会取得了成功 通过基于网络的讨论进行互动，添加关于通过社区建立弹性的会议，以及 介绍一个相关的面对面(或远程)月度讨论小组，重点是挑战学生 在研究生院面临的挑战。通过发展这些活动，这些活动将向该司的所有博士生开放 华盛顿大学生物和生物医学科学系，为了最好地满足学生的需求，我们 相信他们将提高所有参与的博士生(和学术人员)的健康和弹性 高中生的成就)，并通过这样做为他们提供关键技能，帮助他们享受 并在研究生院和以后取得成功。 我们提议的活动的主要可衡量目标是相同的：减少学生压力，增加学生 管理压力和焦虑情况的能力，提高学生的身心健康，增加学生 恢复力。为了评估每项干预措施在实现其目标方面的有效性，我们将进行前后测试 与所有学生一起进行调查，通过多个量化和 定性问题。作为IMSD项目主任Jim Skeath博士将帮助监督创建和 实施所有活动，他完全有能力确保将这些活动整合到 国际管理发展学院的计划编制和文化具有长期性，确保其可持续性。

Summary: Through intentional programming and community based outreach efforts to under-served communities, this supplement seeks to promote student wellness and resiliency. Student feedback from pilots of the proposed activities highlight their indelibly positive impact on student well-being and resiliency. Both activities, however, were hurriedly organized and implemented during the height of the pandemic; both can be significantly improved. The goal of this supplement is to take the time needed to organize, expand, and evolve both efforts to optimize their ability to drive student wellness, resiliency, and success. Focusing specifically on outreach activities, we will enhance our IMSD and MARC led tutoring and science programs by developing a workshop on best practices for urban youth, creating detailed protocols and resources for 12 monthly student led hands-on science demonstrations, and working with tutors, students, parents, and leadership of local high schools and non-profit organizations to increase program efficiency and sustainability. We will enhance the success of our Wellness and Resiliency Workshop by improving website design to facilitate greater student interaction through web-based discussions, adding sessions on building resiliency through community, and introducing an associated in-person (or remote) monthly discussion group that focuses on challenges students are facing in graduate school. By evolving these activities, which will be open to all PhD students in the Division of Biological and Biomedical Sciences at Washington University, to best meet our students' needs, we are confident they will increase the wellness and resiliency of all participating PhD students (and the academic achievement of high school students) and in so doing provide them with critical skills that will help them enjoy and succeed in graduate school and beyond. The key measurable objectives of our proposed activities are the same: reduce student stress, increase student ability to manage stressful and anxiety-inducing situations, increase student wellness, and increase student resiliency. To assess the effectiveness of each intervention in achieving its goals, we will conduct pre-/post-test surveys with all students to track the impact of each activity on each parameter via multiple quantitative and qualitative questions. As Dr. Jim Skeath, the IMSD program director, will help oversee the creation and implementation of all activities, he is perfectly positioned to ensure they are integrated into the fabric of the IMSD programming and culture long-term, ensuring their sustainability.