MBRS Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement

描述（由申请人提供）：佛罗里达国际大学（流感）是一个城市，多校区，研究型大学位于迈阿密，佛罗里达最大的人口中心。这所州立大学的使命是通过优秀的本科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，为东南佛罗里达，国家，民族和国际社会的人民服务。五个战略主题指导大学的发展：国际，环境，城市，健康和信息。金融情报室侧重于这些主题，致力于提供高质量的教育、研究、服务和文化多样性。 随着其目前的33，880（学生入学2002年秋季，69%的少数民族），“健康”作为指定的使命领域，其既定目标是成为全国前25名公立城市研究型大学之一，金融情报大学提供了一个重要的机会，发展更多的代表性不足的少数民族科学家的生物医学研究事业。 这个多方面的计划将通过教师和学生的生物医学研究为导向的发展活动在流感：1）建立一般的生物医学研究氛围; 2）鼓励在流感代表性不足的少数民族学生将生物医学研究视为一个可行的职业选择;和3）对于那些选择了这条道路，准备他们在他们的生物医学职业生涯的努力取得成功。 这将通过四项举措来实现，这些举措将：（1）为选定的一组本科生和研究生提供密集的研究经验和其他培训，以促进他们成为未来的生物医学科学家;（2）从实地到药学，这是一种跨学科的培训经验;（3）生物医学研究举措，为广大学生提供生物医学研究机会;（4）生物医学研究计划，为学生提供生物医学研究机会。（4）化学创新，为生物专业学生的高级化学技术教学提供新的策略和方法。

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.