Strides Toward Encouraging Professions In Science

描述（由申请人提供）：迈向鼓励科学（STEPS）是丹佛社区学院（CCD），奥罗拉社区学院（CCA）和丹佛大都会州立学院（MSCD）的合作努力，并得到了科罗拉多大学健康科学中心（UCHSC）研究生院的帮助。该STEPS计划的目标是1）增加社区学院学生的数量，从历史上代表性不足的少数民族（URM）在生物医学研究，谁宣布可能导致职业生涯在生物医学研究专业2）增加URM社区学院学生的数量，谁完成AS学位和转移到4年制大学，最好是MSCD。3)增加完成学士学位并继续攻读研究生学位的URM大学生的数量，最好是在UCHSC。虽然这第三个目标并没有得到美国国立卫生研究院学士学位课程的严格支持，但它肯定是未来之桥计划的最终目标，并且始终在我们的计划工作人员的脑海中。在步骤程序的学生在学术上主要通过辅导支持，同时被暴露于课外活动，旨在向他们介绍生物医学研究社区的文化富集。学生参加科学素养研讨会又名“杂志俱乐部”，在那里他们学习阅读和讨论主要文献。学生必须参加生物医学研究介绍研讨会，以掌握各种技能，这将是有用的，他们在实习。根据每个学生的兴趣和能力，他们将被安排在UCHSC的研究小组，或者与奥罗拉或洛瑞校区的MSCD，CCD或CCA教授一起工作，进行160至320小时的实习。旅行到科学会议都支持学生在他们参与该计划的早期，再次使他们可以习惯于研究科学家的文化，后来，使他们可以有分享他们在他们的实习期间所做的研究的经验，在海报演示的形式。STEPS校友在他们工作过的研究实验室中做出了重大贡献，未来的学生也会这样做，希望有些人将来会在自己的研究小组中做出自己的贡献。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Strides Toward Encouraging Professions in Science (STEPS) is a collaborative effort by Community College of Denver (CCD), Community College of Aurora (CCA) and Metropolitan State College of Denver (MSCD) with assistance from the Graduate School of the University of Colorado Health Science Center (UCHSC). The goals of the STEPS program are 1) to increase the number of community college students, from historically under-represented minorities (URM) in biomedical research, who declare majors that are likely to lead to careers in biomedical research 2) to increase the number of URM community college students, who complete the AS degree and transfer to a 4 yr college, preferably MSCD. 3) to increase the number of URM college students who complete the BS degree and go on to pursue a graduate degree, preferably at UCHSC. While this third goal is not strictly supported by the NIH Bridges to the Baccalaureate program, it is certainly the ultimately goal of the Bridges to the Future Initiatives and always in the minds of our program staff. Students in the STEPS program are supported academically primarily through tutoring, while being exposed to extracurricular enrichment activities designed to introduce them to the culture of the biomedical research community. The students participate in a scientific literacy seminar aka "The Journal Club" where they learn to read and discuss primary literature. The students must participate in the Introduction to Biomedical Research Seminar to master a variety of skills that will be useful to them in their internships. Depending on each student's interest and ability, they will either be placed with a research group at UCHSC or will work with a MSCD, CCD or CCA professor on the Aurora or Lowry campus for a 160 to 320 hr internship. Travel to scientific conferences is supported both for students early in their participation in the program, again so they may become accustomed to the culture of research scientists, and later so that they may have the experience of sharing the research they have done during their internship in the form of a poster presentation. STEPS alumni have made significant contributions in the research labs they've worked and future students will do the same, hopefully some will make contributions of their own in the future in their own research groups.