UI Initiative for Minority Student Development Program

描述(由申请人提供)：在过去的十年里，爱荷华大学只毕业了38名未被充分代表的少数族裔的硕士和博士，尽管少数族裔获得生物科学学士学位的比例与非少数族裔的比例相似。我们假设学生没有为进入竞争激烈的研究生学位生物科学课程做好适当的准备和/或了解。为了解决这一问题，爱荷华州大学少数民族学生发展计划(IBA)的总体目标是有效地招募和留住代表人数较少的少数族裔，这些少数族裔旨在进入生物医学研究培训计划，从而获得博士、博士/医学博士、博士或M.P.H./博士学位。爱荷华大学生物医学研究社区的研究项目的广度和实力为学生提供了一个丰富的环境，让他们在本科生涯早期就接触到参与其中的学院提供的无数机会。我们的具体目标是：1)除了国家手段之外，提高对生物科学研究生职业感兴趣的有天赋的URM学生的多样性。我们还将从爱荷华大学内部招聘，重点关注已经在研究实验室中的URM候选人；2)通过为进入URM的学生提供旨在发展学生的知识、技能和态度以及他们的个人认同的不同项目计划，帮助学生成功地完成高中一年级的过渡；3)让URM生物科学专业的学生接受导师式的研究，以促进他们对生物科学博士项目的兴趣。我们将促进IBA学生和成功的生物医学研究人员之间的指导关系，以及4)提供专业和领导机会，以促进进入研究生和领导职位。要实现这些目标，需要IBA工作人员、招生办公室、本科生教员、学术顾问、学生支持服务以及参与的学院和院系的支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In the last decade the University of Iowa has graduated only 38 underrepresented minority M.S. and Ph.D.s, even though the percentages of minorities graduating with bioscience B.S. degrees are similar to non-minorities. We hypothesize that students are not appropriately prepared and/or informed for entrance into competitive postgraduate degree bioscience programs. To address this, the overall goal of the University of Iowa Initiative for Minority Student Development, the Iowa Biosciences Advantage (IBA) program, is to effectively recruit and retain underrepresented minorities aiming to matriculate into biomedical research training programs leading to Ph.D.s, Ph.D./M.D., D.D.S., Ph.D., or M.P.H./Ph.D.s. The breadth and strength of research programs within the biomedical research community of the University of Iowa provides an enriched setting to expose students early in their undergraduate careers to the myriad of opportunities available in the participating colleges. Our specific aims are: 1) to improve diversity of gifted URM students interested in bioscience graduate careers, over and above state means. We will also recruit from within the University of Iowa, focusing on URM candidates already in research laboratories, 2) assist students in making successful high school-first year transitions by providing entering URM students with diverse program initiatives designed to develop students' knowledge, skills, and attitudes, as well as their personal identity, 3) to expose URM biosciences majors to mentored research to promote interest in bioscience Ph.D. programs. We will foster mentoring relationships between IBA students and successful biomedical research faculty, and 4) to provide professional and leadership opportunities to enhance progression into graduate and leadership positions. To achieve these objectives requires the concerted efforts of IBA staff, the Admissions Office, undergraduate faculty, academic advisors, student support services, and support of the participating colleges and departments.