TRANSITION TO RESEARCH CAREERS

三个区域机构和里约热内卢大学里约彼德拉斯校区 波多黎各系统将以某种方式改善目前的转会计划 这将增加代表性不足的少数民族的数量， 生物医学研究生课程。 三个参与 Bayamon和Ponce技术大学学院 和卡罗莱纳地区学院不提供学士学位， 无论是生物或化学和学生在这些领域一般转移 到Rio Piedras Campus完成学位。 一 很大一部分科学转学生来自 机构完成B。S.度（约70%），但约三分之一的人这样做 没有一个具体的科学专业，很少有人继续研究生学习。 向研究职业过渡（TRC）项目建议改善这一点。 通过为转学生实施以下计划来改善情况： 1.协调一年级和二年级的化学和数学课程 里约彼德拉斯校区和两年制课程之间的联系。 2.组织一个辅导计划，将确定学生谁是 能够在科学课程中表现良好，并确保这些成为 在这些领域有很强的能力。 3.在Rio Piedras为科学教师建立夏季研究计划 区域机构。 4.为正在崛起的年轻人提供一个夏季工作坊。 5.挑选18名学员作为真相与和解委员会的受训人员， 在里约彼德拉斯校区的暑期研究经验。 6.确保所有真相与和解委员会受训人员继续在 里约彼德拉斯校区。 7.确保校外研究经验，为所有上升的老年人在 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.