University of California, Santa Cruz, IMSD Program

我们的IMSD计划的目标是显着增加少数民族学生谁实现博士学位的数量。该计划旨在培养学生获得学士学位，并培养学生从事科学事业，如教师，大学和生物技术行业的研究人员或卫生保健专业人员。研究生和本科生都参加我们的课程。我们有三个具体目标。首先，我们制定了一项长期计划，将获得博士学位的IMSD参与者人数增加近一倍。根据以前的MBRS计划，我们在1988-1997年期间产生了20名博士。我们的IMSD计划始于1998年。我们已确定1998-2007年期间培养36名博士的目标。为了实现这一目标，我们建议在今后四年内培养14-15名博士。第二个目标是所有本科生的毕业率达到95%。此外，我们希望保持我们的记录，将95%的毕业生安置在研究生院，专业学校或工作中，他们使用他们的生物和化学培训。第三个目标是增加少数民族学生在期刊上发表文章和在国家科学会议上发言的人数。我们希望增加40%的论文和发表的摘要数量。我们建议支持8博士。学生和15名本科生。我们计划的主要内容是：a）尽早接触第一年和第二年的学生; B）在第三年年初选择研究生; c）新颖的夏季培训课程; d）教师实验室的本科生研究职位; e）研究生课程; f）每月一次的学生研究研讨会;以及g）项目支持办公室。

The goals of our IMSD program are to increase significantly the number of minority students who achieve the Ph.D. degree and to train students for careers in the sciences, as teachers, researchers in universities and the biotechnology industry or as health care professionals. Both graduate and undergraduate students participate in our program. We have three specific objectives. First, we have outlined a long-term plan to nearly double the number of IMSD participants who earn the Ph.D. Under the previous MBRS program we produced 20 Ph.D.s in the period 1988-1997. Our IMSD program began in 1998. We have set a target 36 Ph.D.s for the period 1998-2007. To meet that objective we propose to produce 14-15 Ph.D.s in the next four years. The second objective is to have a 95% graduation rate for all undergraduate participants. Furthermore we want to maintain our record of placing 95% of our graduates in graduate schools, professional Schools or in jobs in which they use their biology and chemistry training. The third objective is to increase the number of minority students who publish in journals and who make presentations at national scientific meetings. We wish to increase the number of papers and published abstracts by 40%. We propose to support 8 Ph.D. students and 15 undergraduates. The major elements of our program are: a) early outreach to students in their first and second year; b) selection of research students at the beginning of the third year; c) a novel summer training course; d) undergraduate research positions in faculty labs; e) the graduate program; f) a monthly student research seminar; and g) the program support office.