FIU MBRS SCORE Supplement

描述(申请人提供)：佛罗里达国际大学(FIU)是一个城市，多校区，博士授予机构(卡内基研究扩展机构)位于迈阿密，佛罗里达州最大的人口中心。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。金融情报股注重这些主题，致力于质量管理和文化多样性。 FIU目前有33,000多名学生(2003年秋季入学，其中66.67%是少数族裔)，“健康”是一个指定的任务区，其明确的目标是成为全国顶尖的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的机会。FIU的MBRS计划通过使选定的教师能够进行生物医学研究，并为研究提供足够的设备、用品和工资支持，从而促进了教师的研究。该计划还鼓励跨学科交流，促进资源共享，并为教师在全国会议上展示他们的成果提供资金。此外，它还提供研究经验和数据库的建设，以鼓励教师为他们的研究获得额外的非MBR支持。目前正在进行的计分资助项目有9个。 经过FIU和外部审查以确定其科学价值后，这项补充申请包括6个研究子项目，这些项目将扩大少数族裔教职员工和学生在生物医学研究方面的机会，包括FIU MBRS计划目前没有的环境健康和营养科学领域。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Florida International University (FIU) is an urban, multi-campus, doctoral granting institution (Carnegie Research Extensive Institution) 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, creating new knowledge through research, and 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 quality management and cultural diversity. With its current standing of 33,000+ students (enrolled Fall 2003, 66.67% 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. The MBRS program at FIU has fostered faculty research by enabling selected faculty to conduct biomedical research with adequate funding for equipment, supplies, and salary support for research. The program also encourages interdisciplinary interchange, facilitates resource sharing, and provides funding for faculty to present their results at national meetings. Additionally, it provides the building of a research experience and data base so as to encourage the faculty to obtain additional, non-MBRS support for their research. The active SCORE grant currently supports 9 subprojects. After FIU and external review to determine their scientific merit, this supplemental application includes 6 research subprojects that will broaden the opportunities for minority faculty and students in biomedical research, including scientific areas of environmental health and nutrition that are not currently available in the FIU MBRS Program.