MBRS RISE at San Francisco State University

描述（由申请人提供）：MBRS-RISE计划的总体目标是提高学生和教师在追求生物医学研究事业方面的兴趣，技能和竞争力。我们提出的RISE计划的目标是通过让少数民族学生参与一些课程，研究和课外活动来显着增加从事生物医学职业的少数民族学生的数量。SFSU招收了大量代表性不足的少数民族学生，在每个主要民族类别中都有很强的入学率，并且在向少数民族学生颁发学士学位和硕士学位方面有着出色的记录。相当多的人在学士、硕士和博士一级继续从事生物医学研究。虽然许多人获得博士学位，其他人进入医学，牙科和兽医学校，后来参加临床研究。 旧金山弗朗西斯科州立大学（SFSU）已被证明致力于为少数民族学生准备博士课程和生物医学职业，并在生物医学科学方面开发了一些联邦资助的少数民族增强计划。我们已经确定了一些障碍，这些本科生和研究生少数民族学生在满足他们的目标，在生物医学科学的未来所面临的。在SFSU的MBRS RISE计划的持续资助将使我们能够与我们的其他资助计划（例如MARC，MA-MS/博士桥，SCORE，RIMI，SFSU/UCSF癌症中心合作）相结合，提供必要的基础设施和活动类型，以帮助大量学生克服这些障碍。一套定义明确，逻辑有序的活动已经开发，以满足学生在其职业生涯的各个阶段（低司预研究，高司研究活跃和硕士学位的学生）的具体需求。每项活动都满足以下需求：1）学术课程的成就，2）学术表现，3）科学和研究技能和能力的发展，4）接受博士课程的准备。这些活动的结果将在赠款期间进行严格评估和合理调整，以确保我们的目标和目的得到满足。 对我们目前的RISE赠款的前3年的总结性评估的审查表明，我们的努力非常成功。我们也已经成功地准备SFSU学生继续超越学士学位水平进入研究生生物医学职业。在过去的3年中，至少有34名RISE本科生进入了研究生和专业学校（6名博士，7名MA-MS/博士，4名学士后PREP，1名DDS/博士，2名DDS，2名DVM，7名医学院和5名终端硕士）。我们还将15名RISE硕士研究生纳入博士课程，2名进入PharmD课程（2000年4名，2001年5名，2002年8名）。 这些SFSU RISE的本科生和硕士生已经进入加州大学旧金山分校（3），加州大学圣地亚哥分校（2），美国大学。华盛顿大学（2），UCB大学（2），加州大学戴维斯分校（2），华盛顿州立大学（2），哈佛大学，耶鲁大学，埃默里大学，联合来自北达科他州，俄勒冈州，罗斯大学目前，15名研究生（MA-MS/PhD）和8名高级RISE学生计划在2002年申请进入博士课程，参加2003年秋季入学考试。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the MBRS-RISE program is to increase the interest, skills, and competitiveness of students and faculty in pursuit of biomedical research careers. The goal of our proposed RISE program is to increase significantly the number of minority students pursuing biomedical careers by involving them in a number of curricular, research and co-curricular activities. SFSU enrolls large numbers of underrepresented minority students, with strong enrollment in each major ethnic category, and has an outstanding record of awarding significant numbers of baccalaureate and masters degrees to minority students. A significant number have gone on to enter biomedical research at the bachelor's, master's and doctoral level. While many earn PhD degrees, others enter medical, dental, and veterinary schools and later participate in clinical research. San Francisco State University (SFSU) has a proven commitment to preparing minority students for PhD programs and biomedical careers and has developed a number of federally-funded minority enhancement programs in the biomedical sciences. We have identified a number of barriers, which these undergraduate and graduate minority students face in meeting their goals for a future in the biomedical sciences. Continued funding of the MBRS RISE program at SFSU will allow us, in combination with our other funded programs (e.g. MARC, MA-MS/PhD Bridge, SCORE, RIMI, SFSU/UCSF Cancer Center Collaborative), to provide the type of infrastructure and activities necessary to help significant numbers of students overcome these barriers. A set of well-defined and logically ordered activities has been developed to meet the specific needs of students at various stages of their careers (lower-division Pre-Research, upper-division Research-Active and master's degree students). Each activity addresses the following needs: 1) achievement of academic program, 2) academic performance, 3) development of scientific and research skills and abilities, 4) preparation for acceptance to a PhD program. The outcomes of these activities will be critically evaluated and reasonable adjustments made during the term of the grant to assure that our goals and objectives are met. A review of the summative evaluations for the first 3 years of our current RISE grant indicates our efforts have been very successful. We also have been successful in preparing SFSU students to continue beyond the bachelors level to enter graduate biomedical careers. At least 34 RISE undergraduates have entered graduate and professional schools in the past 3 years (6 PhD, 7 MA-MS/PhD, 4 Post-Baccalaureate PREP, 1 DDS/PhD, 2 DDS, 2 DVM, 7 medical school, and 5 terminal master's). We have also placed 15 RISE master's graduate students into PhD programs and 2 into PharmD programs (4 in 2000, 5 in 2001 and 8 in 2002). These SFSU RISE undergraduate and master's students have entered doctoral programs at UCSF (3), UCSD (2), U. of Washington (2), UCB (2), UC Davis (2), Washington State U (2), Harvard U., Yale U., Emory U., U. of North Dakota, Oregon State U., and Ross University. Currently, 15 graduate (MA-MS/PhD) and 8 senior RISE students plan to apply for admission into PhD programs during 2002 for fall 2003 matriculation.