NCCU-WFU BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES BRIDGE PARTNERSHIP

描述（由申请人提供）：ncu -WFU生物医学科学桥梁合作伙伴关系是通往未来计划的桥梁，旨在培训北卡罗来纳中央大学（NCCU）生物系的硕士学生继续在威克森林大学（WFU）生理和药学系进行博士培训。我们的目标是创造和维持一个“研究环境”，通过ncccu的J.L.钱伯斯生物医学/生物技术研究所（JLC-BBRI）保持强大的研究项目，通过提高NCCU- wfu桥梁伙伴关系计划在博士研究生中的认识，选择有潜力的研究生，并通过实验室研究和研究相关活动培养他们。我们的目标是培养研究生的“研究性思维过程”，将通过在课程中推广二级认知技能来实现。我们的目标是让学生在进入博士阶段的培训阶段时进入高级职位，同时减少社会劣势，我们将通过发展院校之间的教师研究合作来实现，这样学生就可以在两个院校共同研究项目的各个方面，并通过促进NCCU和WFU学生之间的联合项目来实现。NCCU- wfu生物医学科学桥合作伙伴关系计划利用NCCU校园JLC-BBRI独特的研究环境，为少数族裔学生提供活跃的生物医学研究设施和HBCU社区的双重环境。为了实现这些目标，我们要求为第一年的3名硕士学生提供研究生助学金、学费、医疗保险、计算机和参加年度科学会议的旅费，到第三年将增加到6名学生。我们还要求为项目管理员和办公室助理提供3年的支持，每人支付25%的费用，并支持与该项目管理相关的用品和差旅费用。通过NCCU-WFU生物医学科学桥梁伙伴关系对学生的支持将巩固NCCU和WFU之间现有的有效的机构间伙伴关系，这将提高美国下一代少数族裔科学家的数量，但更重要的是，提高他们的质量

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): The NCCU-WFU Biomedical Sciences Bridge Partnership is a Bridges to the Future initiative for the training of M.S. students in the Department of Biology at North Carolina Central University (NCCU) to continue in their Ph.D. training at the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at Wake Forest University (WFU). Our goal to create and maintain a "research environment" at NCCU will be achieved by maintaining strong research programs through NCCU's J.L. Chambers Biomedical/ Biotechnology Research Institute (JLC-BBRI), by increasing awareness of the NCCU-WFU Bridge Partnership program among Ph.D.-directed candidates, selecting graduate students with potential for success, and nurturing them through laboratory research and research-related activities. Our goal to foster the "research thinking process" among graduate students will be achieved by promoting level Ill cognitive skills into coursework. Our goal to bridge students into an advanced position when entering the Ph.D. phase of their training, yet diminishing the social disadvantage, will be implemented by developing faculty research collaborations between institutions so that students can work on aspects of the project at both institutions, and by fostering joint programs between students at NCCU and WFU. The NCCU-WFU Biomedical Sciences Bridge Partnership proposes to take advantage of the unique research environment of the JLC-BBRI on the NCCU campus by making available to underrepresented minority students the dual environments of an active biomedical research facility and the HBCU community. To achieve these goals, we are requesting support for 3 graduate assistantships, tuition, health insurance, computers and travel to an annual scientific meeting for 3 M.S. students in year one, to increase to 6 students in year three. We are also requesting 3 years of support for a program administrator and office assistant at 25% effort each, and support supplies and travel cost related to the administration of this program. Support of students via the NCCU-WFU Biomedical Sciences Bridge Partnership will solidify the existing effective inter-institutional partnership between NCCU and WFU that will improve the quantity, but more importantly, the quality, of the next generation of underrepresented minority scientists in the U.S.