MBRS RISE AT SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVERSITY

我们建议的RISE计划的目标是通过让少数族裔学生参与一些课程、研究和联合课程活动，显著增加他们从事生物医学职业的人数。旧金山州立大学招收了大量未被充分代表的少数民族学生，每个主要民族类别的入学率都很高，并有向少数民族学生授予大量学士学位和硕士学位的杰出记录，其中许多人后来获得了博士学位。旧金山州立大学(SFSU)致力于让少数族裔学生为博士项目和生物医学职业生涯做好准备，并开发了许多由联邦政府资助的生物医学科学少数族裔增强项目。我们已经确定了这些本科生和少数族裔研究生在实现他们在生物医学科学领域的未来目标时面临的一些障碍。资助SFSU的MBR RISE项目将使我们能够与我们在SFSU的其他资助项目(如SCORE RIMI)相结合，提供必要的基础设施和活动，帮助大量学生克服这些障碍。制定了一套定义明确、逻辑有序的活动，以满足学生在其职业生涯的不同阶段(低级预科生、高级研究型学生和硕士研究生)的具体需求。每项活动都满足以下需求：1)确保留住学生的专业，2)积极参与研究，3)建立自信，4)发展基本的沟通技能，5)为博士项目的成功做好准备。这些计划的结果将在赠款期间进行严格的评估和合理的调整，以确保我们的目标和目标得以实现。

The goal of our proposed RISE program is to increase significantly the number of minority students pursuing biomedical careers by involving them in a number of curricular, research and co-curricular activities. SFSU enrolls large numbers of underrepresented minority students, with strong enrollment in each major ethnic category, and has an outstanding record of awarding significant numbers of baccalaureate and masters degrees to minority students, many of whom have gone on to earn PhD degrees. San Francisco State University (SFSU) has a proven commitment to preparing minority students for PhD programs and biomedical careers and has developed a number of federally-funded minority enhancement programs in the biomedical sciences. We have identified a number of barriers which these undergraduates as well as graduate minority students face in meeting their goals for a future in the biomedical sciences. Funding of an MBRS RISE program at SFSU will allow us, in combination with our other funded programs at SFSU (e.g. SCORE RIMI), to provide the type of infrastructure and activities necessary to help significant numbers of students overcome these barriers. A set of well- defined and logically ordered activities has been developed to meet the specific needs of students at various stages of their careers (lower-division Pre-Research, upper-division Research- Active and masters degree students). Each activity addresses the following needs: 1) ensuring retention of students in their major, 2) active involvement in research, 3) building self- confidence, 4) development of essential communication skills, and 5) preparation for success in PhD programs. The outcomes of these programs will be critically evaluated and reasonable adjustments made during the term of the grant to assure our goals and objectives are met.