UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SANTA CRUZ IMSD PROGRAM

我们建议保留我们目前MBRS计划的最佳元素， 利用IMSD新计划的灵活性。支持是 要求15名本科生和8名研究生。 我们的计划有三个目标。首先，我们要大力 少数民族学生获得博士学位的人数度在过去十 18年来，我们的项目的学生取得了博士学位。未来十 我们要培养16个博士我们的第二个目标是增加 少数民族本科生在该计划的数量，同时保持95% 毕业率此外，我们希望保持我们的记录， 我们几乎所有的毕业生在专业学校或工作， 他们用他们的生物和化学训练。我们的第三个目标是 我们的学生在研究中富有成效。将出版物作为衡量标准 为了提高研究成果的质量，我们希望增加论文数量 由我们的少数民族学生出版的40%。 我们计划的主要内容是：i）一个新颖的暑期培训 课程; ii）教师实验室的本科研究职位; iii） 研究生课程; iv）每月的学生研究研讨会; v）该计划 支持办公室和; vi）教师研讨会计划。

We propose to retain the best elements of our current MBRS program while taking advantage of the flexibility of the new IMSD program. Support is requested for fifteen undergraduate students and 8 graduate students. The goals of our program are threefold. First, we want to significantly the number of minority students with Ph.D. Degrees. In the last ten years 18 students from our program achieved the Ph.D. In the next ten years we want to produce 16 Ph.D.s. Our second goal is to increase the number of minority undergraduates in the program while maintaining a 95% graduation rate. Furthermore, we want to maintain our record of placing almost all of our graduates in Professional Schools or in jobs in which they use their biology and chemistry training. Our third goal is to have our students be productive in research. Using publications as a measure of research achievement, we wish to increase the number of papers published by our minority students by 40%. The major elements of our program are: i) a novel summer training course; ii) undergraduate research positions in faculty labs; iii) the graduate program; iv) a monthly student research seminar; v) the program support office and; vi) a faculty seminar program.