Duke PREP: Minority Recruitment into Biomedical Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的杜克预科课程的目的是增加少数民族学生的人数，最终进入博士学位。通过利用少数民族的重要人才库，即那些对科学有一定兴趣，但不确定研究生院是否适合他们，或者有一些缺陷会阻碍他们在研究生院取得成功的人。该计划经过精心设计，旨在提高与研究生院成功相关的各种技能，包括技术实验室技能，科学知识的理解，逻辑和定量技能，口头和书面演示以及科学/学术界的社交。PREP学者将花时间在一个精心挑选的和支持性的实验室内从事研究项目，其他时间在正式和非正式的课程以及其他与学术和职业发展有关的活动。在许多方面，PREP计划利用现有的杜克暑期研究机会计划（SROP）的活动和行政机制，该计划将少数民族本科生带到杜克校园进行为期10周的暑期研究体验。这两个项目都有一个共同的目标，即增加少数民族学生在博士学位的数量。生物医学科学的课程，并最终在科学院。将鼓励PREP学者充分利用两年的经验，只要他们表现在可接受的水平，并保持对追求科学事业的兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed Duke PREP program is designed to increase the number of minority students that eventually enter Ph.D. programs by tapping into an important pool of minorities, namely those that have some interest in science but are not sure graduate school is right for them or that have some deficiency that would hinder their success in graduate school. The program has been carefully designed to improve a variety of skills relevant to succeeding in graduate school, including technical laboratory skills, comprehension of scientific knowledge, logical and quantitative skills, oral and written presentations, and socialization within the scientific/academic community. PREP scholars will spend time engaged in a research project within a carefully selected and supportive laboratory, and the other time in formal and informal coursework and other activities relating to academic and career development. In many ways, the PREP program takes advantage of the activities and administrative mechanisms of the existing Duke Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP), which brings minority undergraduates to the Duke campus for a 10-week summer research experience. Both programs have the same general goal of increasing the number of minority students in Ph.D. programs in the biomedical sciences, and eventually in the scientific academy. The PREP scholars will be encouraged to take advantage of the full two-year experience, as long as they perform at an acceptable level and maintain an interest in pursuing a career in science.