MBRS Support of Research Excellence at Brooklyn College

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约城市大学布鲁克林学院是一所大型、多元化的城市校园，少数民族学生的比例不到50%。学院有大约11000名本科生和约4500名硕士生。作为纽约市立大学研究生中心的一部分，我们还参与了备受推崇的校园科学博士课程的博士培训。这所大学重视教学，在培养不同类型的学生攻读博士学位方面有着良好的记录。我们的教师每年指导数百名学生进行实验室研究，其中包括许多未被充分代表的少数民族学生。学院指定了11个生物医学研究学院参加第一个SCORE项目。该项目将使SCORE参与者能够提高他们的研究能力和生产力，并为加强该机构的研究文化和声誉做出充分贡献。该项目的总体目标是：(1)通过增加在SCORE支持的研究实验室工作的博士后、研究生和本科生的数量，提高SCORE教师的研究效率；通过增加关键实验室设备、生物信息学/建模设施和更换旧的不可靠的笼式洗衣机来增加研究基础设施；促进研究人员与布鲁克林学院教师和外部科学家的合作。(2)通过增加提交和出版的推荐出版物数量、在国家会议上的演讲数量、以及外部资助和奖励的数量，提高SCORE教师的研究竞争力；在项目的第一年增加新的SCORE调查员作为补充项目；邀请一些杰出的科学家来校园展示他们的工作，并与SCORE教师讨论研究问题；通过提供教师发展研讨会，让成功的研究科学家在平衡研究、教学、指导、出版和为大学社区服务的过程中，掌握富有成效和成功的技能。(3)通过与我们的行政部门、我们的部门招聘委员会和外部咨询委员会合作，制定一个详细和积极的多样性科学招聘计划，增加学院从事生物医学研究的少数族裔教师的数量。大学校长同意在四年的SCORE项目中每年聘用一名少数族裔科学教员。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Brooklyn College of the City University of New York is a large, diverse urban campus with just under 50% minority students. The college has an enrollment of approximately 11,000 undergraduates and approximately 4,500 Master's students. We also participate in doctoral training with highly regarded on-campus doctoral programs in the sciences as part of the Graduate Center of CUNY. The college values teaching and has a strong record of sending a diverse group of students on for research doctorates. Our faculty members mentor several hundred students a year, including many underrepresented minority students, in laboratory-based research. The College has designated 11 biomedical research faculty to take part in this first SCORE project. The project will allow SCORE participants to increase their research capabilities and productivity and to contribute fully to strengthening of the institution's research culture and reputation. The overall goals of the project are: (1) To increase SCORE faculty research productivity by adding to the number of postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and undergraduate students working in SCORE-supported research labs; by increasing the research infrastructure by adding key laboratory equipment, a bioinformatics/modeling facility and replacing an old and unreliable cage washer; and fostering increased collaboration of investigators with both Brooklyn College faculty and with external scientists. (2) To increase research competitiveness of SCORE faculty by increasing the number of referred publications submitted and published, of presentations given at national conferences, and of external grant submissions and awards; by adding new SCORE investigators as supplemental projects in the first year of the project; by bringing a number of prominent scientists to campus to present their work and discuss research issues with SCORE faculty; and by providing faculty development workshops on skills that successful research scientists need to master to be productive and successful as they balance research, teaching, mentoring, publishing, and service to the college community. (3) To increase the number of minority faculty at the College involved in biomedical research by developing a detailed and proactive plan for diversity science hiring efforts in conjunction with our administration, our departmental hiring committees, and an external advisory committee. The College President has agreed to set a target of hiring one minority science faculty member per year for the four years of the SCORE project.