RESEARCH SUPPORT FOR BIOMEDICAL CAREERS AT CCNY

描述（改编自申请）：城市学院（CCNY），位于哈莱姆， 是纽约（CUNY）系统的一部分， 社区大学它由一所文理学院组成， 几所专业学校（工程、医学和教育）。招生 在CCNY是超过11,300，是从一个重要的种族和 种族多样性，超过70%的非洲裔美国人或西班牙裔美国人 学生，其中许多人是第一次在他们的家庭上大学。一 在科学部门也有类似的分布，70%的 950名入学的本科生来自同一个代表性不足的群体。的 大学拥有许多资源来支持广泛的研究环境， 其中最新的一个是纽约结构生物学中心， 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 从MBRS助理研究员（AI）计划到RISE计划。MBRS评分 该计划成立于1999年，以支持一些教师的研究 通过提供研究，与此处提议的活动相关的项目 为学生提供机会。MBRS计划将继续以 科学部，并将涉及生物学，生物医学， 教育、化学和物理。所有参与部门提供毕业生 学位，包括博士学位。CCNY的MBRS计划取得了成功 在过去的16年里，培训了29名来自代表性不足的少数民族的学生， 那些在博士阶段从事生物医学研究的人16名受训人员 在过去的四年里RISE计划的长期目标是 进一步增加合格的本科生谁继续他们的人数 博士教育和培训水平，并增加数量 完成博士学位的研究生城市学院的课程的目标 将通过完善目前成功的学生研究得到满足 计划，再加上新的课程开发和一系列积极主动的学生 支助服务.其他努力包括一个自信的院系咨询计划 进入学生。这些努力使以下方面得到了重大改善： 学生保留和提高成绩，在较低的司科学，将 扩大MBRS合格学生的库。

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.