CSULA-RIMI: Faculty Career Development, Core Facility, *

描述（由申请人提供）：加州州立大学洛杉矶分校（CSULA）为提高其服务于美国大陆任何一所大学中最多样化的学生群体的能力，并提高教师在生物医学研究和环境健康研究方面的竞争力，将发展各种科学项目作为机构目标的一部分。特别是生物科学系和化学与生物化学系在美国西部所有硕士和本科院校中处于顶级地位。CSULA建议建立一个RIMI计划，以提高教师的研究效率和竞争力，特别是那些处于专业发展早期阶段的教师（重点领域1）。重点将放在与校园教师和来自几所顶尖研究型大学的外部合作者的合作研究项目上。拟议的项目将有助于了解影响少数群体健康和健康差距的基本机制。另一个目标是建立一个生物和环境分析和微采样（beam）实验室，其中几个最先进的高通量生物和环境分析仪和采样器将添加到参与部门的现有仪器储备中（重点领域2）。通过积极招募有才华的教师（特别是那些来自代表性不足的群体的教师），组建一批技术支持人员，以及将研究与教学相结合（重点领域3），我们希望帮助改善校园生物医学研究的整体研究基础设施。来自化学与生物化学系、生物科学系、地理与城市分析系的八名教员，以及即将招募的新教员，将开展三个合作子项目。青年教师在学术活动中相当活跃，显示出成为多产教师/学者的巨大潜力。他们的进一步发展符合RIMI计划的目标，也符合大学开展高水平研究工作的能力的增长。CSULA- rimi项目将为加快CSULA的机构目标提供一个很好的机会，该目标是成为所有综合性大学中研究和研究培训的首选校园，并成为解决少数民族健康和健康相关差异问题的模范西班牙裔服务机构。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): As part of the drive to improve its ability to serve the most diverse student body of any university in the continental United States and to elevate the competitiveness of faculty for their biomedical research and environmental health studies, California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), has set as an institutional goal the development of its various science programs, particularly the Departments of Biological Sciences and Chemistry & Biochemistry into the top-level status among all masters- and undergraduate-level institutions in the Western United States. CSULA proposes to establish a RIMI program to enhance the research productivity and competitiveness of faculty members, particularly those who are in the earlier stages of their professional development (Area of Emphasis 1). Emphasis will be placed on collaborative research projects with faculty on campus and external collaborators from several top research universities. The proposed projects will contribute towards an understanding of basic mechanisms that impact minority health and health disparities. Another goal is to establish a Biological and Environmental Analysis and Micro-Sampling (BEAMS) Laboratory wherein several state-of-the-art high-throughput biological and environmental analyzers and samplers will be added to the existing instrumental holdings of the participating departments (Area of Emphasis 2). Through aggressive recruitment of talented faculty members (particularly those from underrepresented groups), assembly of a cohort of technical support staff, and the integration of research with teaching (Area of Emphasis 3), we hope to help improve the overall research infrastructure on campus for biomedical research. The eight faculty participants, drawn from the Departments of Chemistry & Biochemistry, Biological Sciences, and Geography and Urban Analysis, and the new faculty member to be recruited, will carry out three collaborative subprojects. The junior faculty members have been quite active in scholarly activities and are exhibiting great potential of becoming prolific teacher/scholars. Their further development is in line with the goals of the RIMI program and with the growth of the University's ability to mount high-level research efforts. The CSULA-RIMI program will offer a great opportunity for expediting CSULA's institutional goal of becoming the premier campus in research and research training among all comprehensive universities, and a model Hispanic-serving institution for addressing minority health and health-related disparity issues.