RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR BIOMEDICAL CAREERS AT CCNY

描述(改编自申请)：城市学院(CCNY)，位于哈莱姆区， 是纽约市立大学(CUNY)19名高年级学生和 社区大学。它由一所文理学院和 几所专业学校(工程、医学和教育)。招生 在CCNY有超过11,300人，来自一个具有重要种族和 种族多样性，非洲裔美国人或西班牙裔美国人占70%以上 学生，他们中的许多人是家里第一个上大学的人。一个 类似的分布也见于科学部门，其中70%的人 招收的950名本科生来自同样的代表性不足的群体。这个 大学有许多资源来支持广泛的研究环境， 其中最新的是纽约结构生物学中心，由 纽约市的10所医学和研究型大学。 此应用程序请求支持以继续学生发展组件 MBRS助理调查员(AI)计划的RISE计划。MBRS评分 该计划成立于1999年，旨在支持多项教员研究 通过提供研究与这里提议的活动相联系的项目 Rise学生的机会。MBRS方案将继续将总部设在 科学部将涉及生物学、生物医学方面的教职员工 教育、化学和物理。所有参与的部门都提供毕业生 学位，包括博士学位。CCNY的MBR项目取得了成功 在过去的16年里，培训了29名来自代表不足的少数族裔的学生 继续进行博士水平生物医学研究的小组，其中16人接受过培训 在过去的四年里。RISE计划的长期目标是 进一步增加符合条件的本科生继续学习 博士级别的教育和培训，并增加 在城市学院完成博士课程的研究生。目标 将通过对当前成功的学生研究的提炼来满足 计划，加上新课程的开发和一系列积极主动的学生 支持服务。其他努力包括一个自信的教职员工咨询计划 用来录取学生。这些努力带来了重大的改善 留住学生和提高较低级别的理科成绩将 扩大符合MBR标准的学生人数。

DESCRIPTION (Adapted from Application): City College (CCNY), located in Harlem, is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) system of 19 senior and community colleges. It consists of a college of liberal arts and sciences and several professional schools (engineering, medicine, and education). Enrollment at CCNY is over 11,300 and is drawn from a region of significant racial and ethnic diversity, with over 70 percent African-American or Hispanic-American students, many of whom are the first in their families to attend college. A similar distribution is seen in the division of science, where 70 percent of the 950 enrolled undergraduates are from the same underrepresented groups. The university has a number of resources to support the broad research environment, the newest of which is the New York Structural Biology Center, a consortium of 10 medical and research universities in New York City. This application requests support to continue the student development component of the MBRS Associate Investigator (AI) program to a RISE program. A MBRS SCORE program was established in 1999 to support a number of faculty research projects that are linked to the activities proposed here by providing research opportunities for RISE students. The MBRS program will continue to be based in the Division of Science and will involve faculty in biology, biomedical education, chemistry, and physics. All participating departments offer graduate degrees, including the Ph.D. The MBRS program at the CCNY has enjoyed success during the last 16 years training 29 students from underrepresented minority groups who went on to biomedical research at the Ph.D. level, with 16 trained in the last four years. The long term objective of the RISE program is to further increase the number of qualified undergraduates who continue their education and training at the Ph.D. level, and to increase the number of graduate students completing the Ph.D. program at the City College. The goals will be met through the refinement of the current successful student research program, coupled with new course development and a series of proactive student support services. Other efforts include an assertive faculty-advising program for entering students. These efforts have resulted in major improvements in student retention and improved grades in the lower division sciences that will enlarge the pool of MBRS eligible students.