ENRICHMENT OF COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS IN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

生物科学教育的不足，特别是生物科学的进步， 分子生物学是一个关键的差距， 需要解决 因此，MBRS学生池只有一个 有限的知识和了解目前的研究领域， 生物科学，包括细胞结构，基因克隆和绘图， DNA修复和人类基因组研究。 基于这一基本原理， 调查人员建议建立一个正在进行的两阶段浓缩 一个为10名一年级和二年级少数民族大学生开设的项目 在细胞结构研究方法学的三年中， 心理学和分子生物学。 该浓缩组件还将 让这些学生接触到少数民族的榜样科学家， 学术会议期间和实验室外的科学研讨会 研究环境在CSUH和UC校园在夏季会议期间。 一群非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔，美国印第安人和太平洋裔 岛民学生将从CSUH夏桥班选出， 进入一年级的学生和二年级的少数民族学生， 去年完成了夏桥。 他们将被丰富， 在电子显微镜和分子生物学方面的实验室经验。 他们将在第三年加入常规的CSUH MBRS计划， 第四年。 学生的表现将在每个学期结束时进行评估。 一年;他们将通过大学跟踪，并协助他们的入境 通过建立导师关系， CSUH导师和未来的顾问在UC或其他博士学位授予 校园。

The education deficit in biological sciences, especially advances in molecular biology for beginning college students is a critical gap which needs to be addressed. Consequently, the MBRS student pool has only a limited knowledge and appreciation of current areas of research in the biological sciences, including cell structure, gene cloning and mapping, DNA repair, and studies on the human genome. Based on this rationale, the investigators propose to establish an ongoing 2-phase enrichment program for a group of 10 first and second-year minority college students in each of three years in research methodologies in cell structure, psychology, and molecular biology. This enrichment component will also expose this pool of students to minority role model scientists and science seminars during the academic session and exiting laboratory research environments at CSUH and UC campuses during the summer session. A pool of African-American, Hispanic, American Indian and Pacific Islander student will be selected from the CSUH Summer Bridge class of entering first-year students and from second-year minority students who completed the Summer Bridge the previous year. They will be enriched in laboratory experiences in electron microscopy and molecular biology. They will join the regular CSUH MBRS Program in their third year and fourth years. Student performance will be evaluated at the end of each year; they will be tracked through college and assisted with their entry into doctoral programs by establishing a mentorship relationship between CSUH mentors and future advisors at UC or other doctoral degree-granting campuses.