Short Term Training for Minority Students

描述(由申请人提供)： 这项针对少数族裔的短期培训计划的竞争性更新将继续将范德比尔特大学和梅哈里医学院涉及血管生物学的多部门和机构研究的相当大的优势和多样性集中到一个连贯的框架中，以引入研究设计和方法。将为10名本科生提供助学金。本科生将从全国范围内招收。将尽一切努力让这些学生连续两个暑期参加该项目。虽然培训计划将主要集中于研究，学生将有机会参加为期三周的研究入门课程，在那里他们将获得可应用于自己暑期工作的研究基本技能，以及为期十周的分子生物学、遗传学和生物化学的概念和机制课程，这将有助于他们为未来的研究生工作做准备；一个关于研究机会(职业)的研讨会；一个研究中的伦理研讨会；以及出席和参加由教员举办的一系列研讨会。两门课程是选修课，但工作坊和研讨会不是选修课。在培训计划结束时，学生将以口头报告的形式向其他学生和教职员工介绍他们的工作，非常类似于在全国会议上所做的报告。这将伴随着一份关于他们暑期研究活动的简短书面报告，以期刊文章的形式。这项培训的目的是为学生在研究生院取得成功的需要和预期做好准备，提高他们对血管生物学研究的兴趣，并向他们介绍研究技术、方法和职业选择。培训设施包括范德比尔特的8栋相邻建筑和梅哈里医学院的微生物学系。对未来这一领域的研究科学家进行多学科研究培训，预计将对发现新信息至关重要，这些信息将导致改善心血管疾病的诊断、预防和治疗。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This competing renewal for the Short Term Training Program for Minorities will continue to serve to focus the considerable strengths and diversity of multi-departmental and institutional research dealing with vascular biology at Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College into a coherent framework for introducing research design and methods. Stipends for 10 undergraduate students will be available. The undergraduate students will be recruited from across the country. Every effort will be made to have these students participate in the program for two consecutive summers. While the training program will focus primarily on research, the students will be offered the opportunity to attend a three week course on Introduction to Research, where they will obtain basic skills in research that can be applied to their own summer work and a ten week course on Concepts and Mechanisms in Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry which will help prepare them for future graduate work; a workshop on opportunities (careers) in research; a workshop on Ethics in Research; and attendance and participation in a seminar series presented by the faculty preceptors. Two courses are optional but the workshop and seminar are not. At the end of the training program, the students will present their work to the other students and the faculty as an oral presentation, very much in the style of those given at national meetings. This will be accompanied by a short written report of their summer research activities, in the style of a journal article. This training is intended to prepare the students for what is needed and expected to succeed in graduate school, to increase their interest in vascular biology research, and to introduce them to research -techniques, methodologies and career options. Training facilities include 8 adjacent buildings at Vanderbilt and the Department of Microbiology at Meharry Medical College. Multidisciplinary research training of future research scientists in this area is expected to be critical to discovering the new information that will lead to improved diagnosis, prevention and therapy for cardiovascular disease.