SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona

描述(由申请者提供)：加州大学波利波莫纳分校的SCORE计划成立于2000年6月，旨在显著提高该大学的研究能力，最终目标是增加有动力从事生物医学科学家职业的少数族裔学生的数量。为了实现这些目标，该计划资助高质量的研究，从而出版同行评议的出版物，并加强科学研究的基础设施。现有的计划包括12个子项目，总共涉及13名教职员工，他们都对研究、研究生和本科教育做出了强有力的、可证明的承诺。该项目是跨学科的，涉及来自两所不同学院的四个学术部门的教职员工。这些项目也是多种多样的，涵盖了从人类营养和健康到器官系统结构和功能、免疫学、细胞和分子生物学以及有机和生物化学的各种主题。所要求的补充子项目将通过增加两个项目来扩展该计划，一个涉及肌肉，另一个涉及骨骼。这个涉及肌肉的项目将扩大使用转基因动物的研究数量，这是生物学领域的一项非常重要的技术，并为一名新聘用的生物学教员的职业生涯做出贡献。这个涉及骨骼的项目是运动学和健康促进系提交的第一份分数拨款申请。它涉及骨质疏松症，这是一个关键的健康问题，代表着SCORE计划向第三所学院(文科和社会科学)和第五个系的重要扩展。已经参与计分提案的四个系在招收代表性不足的学生方面非常有效，例如，拉美裔学生的入学人数增长速度是整个大学的两倍。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona was established in June, 2000 to significantly improve the research capabilities of the University with the ultimate objective of increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who are motivated to pursue careers as biomedical scientists. To achieve these ends the program funds high-quality research leading to peer-reviewed publications and strengthens the infrastructure for scientific research. The existing program includes twelve subprojects involving a total of thirteen faculty, all with strong, demonstrable commitments to research, and graduate and undergraduate education. The program is interdisciplinary, involving faculty from four academic departments in two different colleges. The projects are diverse as well, covering topics ranging from human nutrition and health, to organ system structure and function, immunology, cellular and molecular biology, and organic and biochemistry. The requested supplemental subproject will expand the program by adding two projects, one dealing with muscle and the other dealing with bone. The project dealing with muscle will expand the amount of research using genetically modified animals, a very important technology in the field of biology, and contribute to the career of a newly hired faculty member in Biology. The project dealing with bone is the first submission of a SCORE grant application from the Department of Kinesiology and Health Promotions. It deals with osteoporosis, a critical health issue, and represents an important expansion of the SCORE program into a third college (Liberal Arts and Social Sciences) and a fifth department. The four departments already participating in the SCORE proposal have been very effective at recruiting underrepresented students, with enrollments of Latino students, for example, growing twice as fast as for the University as a whole.