TRANSITION TO RESEARCH CAREERS

三个区域机构和里约热内卢大学皮德拉斯校区 波多黎各系统将在一定程度上改善目前的转会计划 这将增加继续存在的代表不足的少数族裔的数量 生物医学方面的研究生课程。三位参赛者 地区机构；巴亚蒙和庞塞理工大学学院 和卡罗莱纳地区学院不提供学士学位在 生物或化学，这些领域的学生一般会 去里约热内卢皮埃德拉斯校区完成学业。一个 来自地区的理科转学学生占很大比例 大学完成理科学士学位(约70%)，但约有三分之一是这样做的。 没有特定的科学专业，很少有人继续研究生学习。 过渡到研究职业(TRC)项目建议改善这一点 在这种情况下，为转学学生实施以下方案： 1.协调一年级和二年级的化学和数学课程 在里约热内卢皮德拉斯校区和两年制课程之间。 2.组织一项辅导计划，确定哪些学生是 能够在理科课程中表现出色，并确保这些成就成为 在这些领域有很强的能力。 3.在里约热内卢为理科教员设立暑期研究项目 来自地区机构的。 4.为高二学生提供暑期工作坊。 5.挑选18名大二学生作为TRC实习生，为他们提供 在里约热内卢皮德拉斯校区的暑期研究经验。 6.确保所有TRC实习生在大学继续本科研究 里约皮德拉斯校区。 7.确保所有正在崛起的高年级学生获得校外研究体验 TRC计划。

Three regional institutions and the Rio Piedras Campus of the University of Puerto Rico System will improve the current transfer program in a manner which will augment the number of underrepresented minorities who continue graduate studies in the biomedical sciences. The three participating regional institutions; Bayamon and Ponce Technological University Colleges and the Carolina Regional College do not offer baccalaureate degrees in either Biology or Chemistry and students in these areas generally transfer to the Rio Piedras Campus in order to complete their degrees. A significant fraction of science transfer students from regional institutions complete B. S. degrees (ca 70%), but about a third do so without a specific science major and very few continue graduate studies. The Transition to Research Careers (TRC) project proposes to improve this situation by implementing the following program for transfer students: 1. Coordination of 1st and 2nd year Chemistry and Mathematics courses between the Rio Piedras Campus and the two year programs. 2. Organizing a tutorial program which will identify students who are capable of performing well in science courses and assure that these become highly competent in these areas. 3. Establish a summer research program at Rio Piedras for science faculty from the regional institutions. 4. Providing a summer workshop for rising sophomores. 5. Selecting 18 sophomores as TRC trainees and providing these with a summer research experience at the Rio Piedras Campus. 6. Assuring that all TRC trainees continue undergraduate research at the Rio Piedras Campus. 7. Assuring extramural research experiences for all rising Seniors in the TRC program.