Developing a Bio-medical and Behavioral Research Center

描述(由申请人提供)： 加州州立大学萨克拉门托分校(CSU)位于加利福尼亚州首府，是CSU系统23个校区中的第六大大学。加州州立大学有28,558名学生。CSU坚定地致力于多元化、教师奖学金和学生参与研究的目标。大约67%的学生是女性，53%的本科生来自不同种族 背景。该机构致力于通过生物医学和行为研究为提高生活质量所必需的学生和教职员工提供更多的培训和研究机会。此SRIP应用程序的目标是提高CSU中未被充分代表的教职员工/学生和女性教职员工/学生的生物医学和行为研究技能。计划了四个具体目标。这些目标是：1)开发支持试点研究和外部提案开发的教师研究研究员计划；2)让学生参与教师研究项目、研究会议和学院学生研究招待会；3)提供一系列旨在提高教师和学生的研究技能的在线迷你课程和授课技能研讨会；以及4)组织每年一次的研究会议，在这些会议上，教师和学生与行为和生物医学研究领域的领导者进行互动。 这些目标将通过在为期5个月的(SRIP)校外计划期间培训Bonnie Raingruber来实现。Raingruber博士活跃在CSU的校园活动中，深受其他教职员工的尊敬。她在CSU任教和参与研究活动已有17年，是卫生与公共服务研究中心的主任。Raingruber博士将与教职员工研究员一起工作， 开发在线小型研究课程，组织研究会议和师生研究招待会。这一计划的有效性将通过纵向比较基线和年度结果来评估：1)参与生物医学和行为研究的代表不足的/女性学生和教职员工的百分比，2)参与校外研究的少数教职员工的百分比 这些指标包括：3)校外资助金额，4)拥有出版物和演示文稿的少数族裔和女性教职员工的百分比，5)与研究密集型机构进行合作调查的百分比，6)参与教职员工研究的学生在专业内的保留率，7)参与研究的学生人数，以及8)参与教职员工研究的学生申请研究生院的进展情况。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): California State University, Sacramento (CSUS) is located in the capitol of California and is the sixth largest university in the 23-campus CSU system. CSUS has an enrollment of 28,558 students. CSUS is strongly committed to the goals of pluralism, faculty scholarship, and the involvement of students in research. Approximately 67 % of students are female and 53 % of undergraduate students are from diverse backgrounds. The institution is committed to enhancing training and research opportunities for students and faculty members necessary to improve the quality of life through biomedical and behavioral research. The goal of this SRIP application is to enhance the biomedical and behavioral research skills of underrepresented faculty/students and female faculty/students at CSUS. Four specific aims are planned. Those aims are to: 1) develop a faculty research fellows program that supports pilot research and external proposal development, 2) involve students in faculty research projects, research conferences, and facultystudent research receptions, 3) offer a series of on-line mini courses and grantsmanship workshops designed to increase the research skills of faculty and students, and 4) organize yearly research conferences in which faculty and students interact with leaders in behavioral and biomedical research. These aims will be accomplished by training Bonnie Raingruber during the 5-month (SRIP) extramural program. Dr. Raingruber is active in campus-wide activities at CSUS and is well respected by other faculty members. She has taught and participated in research activities at CSUS for 17 years and is the Director of the Center for Health and Human Services Research. Dr. Raingruber will work with faculty research fellows, develop on-line mini research courses, and organize research conferences and student-faculty research receptions. The effectiveness of this proposed program will be evaluated by longitudinally comparing baseline to yearly outcomes in terms of: 1) percent under-represented/female students and faculty members involved in biomedical and behavioral research, 2) percent of minority faculty with extramural research support, 3) dollar amount of extramural support, 4) percentage of minority and female faculty with publications and presentations, 5) percentage of collaborative investigations with research-intensive institutions, 6) retention within the major by students involved in faculty research, 7) number of students participating in research, and 8) progress toward application to graduate school by students participating in faculty research.