Initiative for Minority Student Development at UNC-Chapel Hill

描述（由申请人提供）：北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校（UNC-CH）少数民族学生发展倡议（IMSD）计划的更新将继续帮助促进大学努力增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生参与生物医学和行为研究，以提高他们作为未来研究生和完成博士课程的个人的竞争力。公共卫生将在进行行为科学研究的学生中占据突出地位。事实上，一些通过IMSD支持的研究生来自北卡罗来纳大学公共卫生学院。UNC-CH IMSD计划将继续刺激和促进URM本科生参与生物医学和行为研究，与学术部门合作增加URM博士生的数量，并为少数民族医学和牙科学生提供更多参与基础生物医学研究的机会。这项研究将涉及生物医学、公共卫生和临床科学界。但继续项目的主要推力将是与跨学科生物医学科学项目（IBMS）的合作安排，并与T32项目的PI/项目主任合作，以广泛增加URM博士生的数量。此外，通过IMSD的支持，IBMS项目将建立一个过渡性硕士项目，招收有前途但在攻读IBMS博士项目之前需要额外研究经验的学生，该项目允许学生在一年后选择特定的学术部门。IMSD计划的基础是北卡罗来纳大学- ch强大的研究活动及其在加强和促进学生群体多样性方面的努力。研究培训和指导理念是IMSD项目的基石。在稳定状态和所有组成部分，该计划每年将为40多名学生提供研究补偿。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The renewal of the Initiative for Minority Student Development (IMSD) program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) will continue to help facilitate the university's effort to increase the involvement of underrepresented minority (URM) students in biomedical and behavioral research to enhance their competitiveness as prospective graduate students and as individuals completing their doctoral programs. Public Health will be prominently represented among students conducting behavioral science research. Indeed, a number of graduate students supported via IMSD have been from the UNC School of Public Health. The UNC-CH IMSD program will continue to stimulate and facilitate the involvement of URM undergraduate students in biomedical and behavioral research, work with academic departments to increase the number of URM Ph.D. students, and provide enhanced opportunities for minority medical and dental students to be involved in basic biomedical research. The research will be relevant to the biomedical, public health, and clinical science communities. But a major thrust of the continued program will be the collaborative arrangement with the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Program (IBMS) and working collaboratively with PI/program directors of T32 projects to broadly increase the number of URM Ph.D. students. Additionally, through IMSD support, the IBMS program will establish a transitional master's program that will enroll students with promise but who need additional research experiences before embarking on the IBMS Ph.D. program, which allows students to select specific academic departments after one year. A foundation of the IMSD program is the strength of UNC-CH's strong research activities and its efforts in enhancing and promoting diversity among its student body. Research training and the mentoring concept are the cornerstones of the IMSD program. At steady state and across all components, the program will provide research compensation for more than 40 students annually.