MBRS Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement

简介(申请人提供)：佛罗里达国际大学(Flu)是一所城市、多校区、研究型大学，位于佛罗里达州最大的人口中心迈阿密。这所州立大学的使命是通过优秀的本科生和研究生教学传授知识，通过研究创造新知识，并通过促进公共服务，为佛罗里达州东南部的人民、州、国家和国际社会服务。五个战略主题指导着大学的发展：国际、环境、城市、健康和信息。FIU专注于这些主题，致力于提供优质教育、研究、服务和文化多样性。 FIU目前有33,880名学生(2002年秋季入学的学生中69%是少数族裔)，“健康”被指定为任务区，其明确的目标是成为全国最好的25所公立城市研究型大学之一，为培养更多代表不足的少数族裔科学家从事生物医学研究事业提供了一个重要机会。 这一多方面的计划将通过Flu的教职员工和学生的生物医学研究发展活动：1)建立总体的生物医学研究氛围；2)鼓励Flu代表不足的少数族裔学生将生物医学研究视为可行的职业选择；以及3)对于那些选择了这条道路的人，为他们的生物医学职业生涯的成功做好准备。 这将通过四项倡议实现：(1)为选定的一批本科生和研究生提供密集的研究经验和其他培训，以促进他们作为未来生物医学科学家的成功；(2)从现场到药剂学，这是一种跨学科的培训经验；(3)生物医学研究倡议，向广泛的学生提供生物医学研究；以及(4)化学倡议，为向生物学学生教授先进的化学技术开发新的战略和方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Florida International University (FlU) is an urban, multi campus, research university located in Miami, Florida's largest population center. The mission of this state university is to serve the people of southeast Florida, the state, the nation and the international community by imparting knowledge through excellent undergraduate and graduate teaching, by creating new knowledge through research, and by promoting public service. Five strategic themes guide the University's development: International, Environmental, Urban, Health, and Information. FIU focuses on these themes with a commitment to providing quality education, research, service and cultural diversity. With its current standing of 33,880 (students enrolled Fall 2002, 69% minority), "Health" as a designated mission area, and its stated goal to be one of the nation's top 25 public urban research universities, FIU provides a significant opportunity to develop more underrepresented minority scientists for biomedical research careers. This multifaceted program will, through faculty and student biomedical research oriented development activities at FlU: 1) build the biomedical research atmosphere in general; 2) encourage underrepresented minority students at FlU to view biomedical research as a viable career option; and 3) for those that chose that path, prepare them for success in their biomedical career endeavors. This will be achieved through four initiatives that will: (1) Provide a selected group of undergraduate and graduate students an intense research experience and other training to promote their success as future biomedical scientists; (2) Field to Pharmacy, an interdisciplinary training experience; (3) Biomedical Research Initiative, provide biomedical research exposure to a broad spectrum of students; and (4) a Chemistry Initiative, to develop new strategies and methods for teaching advanced chemistry techniques to biology students.