University of California, Santa Cruz, IMSD Program

我们IMSD项目的目标是大幅增加获得博士学位的少数族裔学生的数量，并为学生培养从事科学职业的学生，如教师、大学和生物技术行业的研究人员或医疗保健专业人员。研究生和本科生都参加了我们的项目。我们有三个具体目标。首先，我们概述了一项长期计划，将获得国际管理发展学院博士学位的学员人数增加近一倍。根据之前的MBR计划，我们在1988-1997年间培养了20名博士学位。我们的IMSD项目始于1998年。我们为1998-2007年期间设定了36名博士的目标。为了实现这一目标，我们计划在未来四年内培养14-15名博士。第二个目标是让所有本科生的毕业率达到95%。此外，我们希望保持将95%的毕业生安排在研究生院、专业学校或从事使用他们所接受的生物和化学培训的工作的记录。第三个目标是增加在期刊上发表文章和在国家科学会议上发表演讲的少数民族学生的数量。我们希望论文和发表的摘要数量增加40%。我们计划资助8名博士生和15名本科生。我们计划的主要内容是：a)对一年级和二年级的学生进行早期推广；b)在三年级开始时挑选研究型学生；c)新的暑期培训课程；d)教师实验室的本科生研究职位；e)研究生计划；f)每月一次的学生研究研讨会；g)计划支持办公室。

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.