PREDOCTORAL RESEARCH SCIENTIST PROGRAM IN PSYCHOLOGY

少数民族奖学金计划由美国心理学协会管理， 协会确定少数民族心理学博士前学生 对老龄化研究感兴趣，并促进他们进入 成人发展和老龄化的研究计划;建立一个网络， 研究人员，学员和导师在老龄化研究，提供了一个 扩大少数民族研究的国家基础设施， 老龄化;增加少数民族感兴趣的人数 攻读心理学博士学位，专注于成人研究 与少数民族人口有关的发展和老龄化;提供 为少数族裔老年人提供更多的职业发展机会 研究人员通过参与国家计划， 老龄化研究所，美国心理协会， 美国老年学学会。 少数民族奖学金计划从少数民族中招募和挑选学员。 国家申请人库，每年在选定的国家和地区安排四名新的受训人员。 心理学项目提供专门的老龄化研究培训。 每名受训人员获得两年的支持， 在项目期间得到支助的受训人员。 联营/承包 与培训机构作出安排，以确保 他们提供配套资金，支付与当地标准一致的工资， 指派一名导师与学员密切合作，让学员参与 与少数民族人口老龄化有关的相关研究，以及 使受训者为老年学的研究生涯做好准备。 少数 奖学金计划每年监测每个受训者的进展， 个性化指导，为学员安排丰富活动， 发展了一个老龄化方面的少数民族研究人员网络。

The Minority Fellowship Program administered by the American Psychological Association identifies ethnic minority predoctoral students in psychology with an interest in aging research and facilitates their entry into research programs in adult development and aging; establishes a network of researchers, trainees and mentors in aging research that provides a national infrastructure for the expansion of ethnic minority research in aging; increases the number of ethnic minority persons interested in pursuing doctoral study in psychology with a focus on research in adult development and aging related to ethnic minority populations; provides enhanced career development opportunities to ethnic minority aging researchers through involvement with national programs of the National institute on Aging, the American Psychological Association, and the Gerontological Society of America. The Minority Fellowship Program recruits and selects trainees from a national applicant pool and places four new trainees per year in selected psychology programs that offer specialized research training in aging. Each trainee receives two years of support making a total of twelve trainees supported during the project period. Consortium/contractual arrangements are established with the training institutions to ensure that they provide matching funding, pay wages consistent with local standards, assign a mentor to work closely with the trainee, involve the trainee in relevant research related to an aging ethnic minority population, and prepare the trainee for a research career in gerontology. The Minority Fellowship Program monitors each trainee's progress annually, provides individualized mentoring, arranges enrichment activities for trainees, and develops a network of ethnic minority researchers in aging.