SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona

描述(由申请人提供)：加州大学保利·波莫纳分校的SCORE计划成立于2000年6月，并于2004年9月更新，旨在显著提高该大学的研究能力，最终目标是增加有动力从事生物医学科学家职业的少数族裔学生人数。为了实现这些目标，该计划为高质量的研究提供资金，导致出版同行评议的出版物，并加强科学研究的基础设施。现有的计划包括六个子项目，涉及对研究、研究生和本科教育具有强烈、明显承诺的教职员工。目前资助的项目是跨学科的，涉及来自两所不同学院的三个学术部门的教职员工。本附录中的七个项目将增加三个新的系(动物和兽医科学、运动学、心理学和社会学)，后两个系来自一所目前不在我们计划中的学院。这些项目还包括三名女性调查人员，其中一人(弗洛里亚诺博士)是拉丁裔。拟议的SCORE项目大大扩展了研究项目的范围，包括有机化学(刘博士)、当地代表性不足的少数族裔社区的两个方面的健康(阿尔伯特博士和梁博士)、向不同种族群体提供卫生保健的心理学方面(阿尔瓦拉多博士)、分子生理学(格鲁伯博士)、生物力学(威克勒博士)和生物信息学(弗洛里亚诺博士)。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The SCORE Program at Cal Poly Pomona was established in June 2000 and renewed in September 2004 to significantly improve the research capabilities of the University with the ultimate objective of increasing the number of underrepresented minority students who are motivated to pursue careers as biomedical scientists. To achieve these ends the program funds high quality research leading to peer-reviewed publications and strengthens the infrastructure for scientific research. The existing program includes six subprojects involving faculty with strong, demonstrable commitments to research and to graduate and undergraduate education. The currently funded program is interdisciplinary, involving faculty from three academic departments in two different colleges. The seven projects included in this supplement will add three new departments (Animal and Veterinary Sciences, Kinesiology, Psychology and Sociology), the latter two being from a College not currently represented in our program. These projects also include three female investigators, one of them (Dr. Floriano) a Latina. The proposed SCORE projects significantly expand the range of research projects to include organic chemistry (Dr. Liu), two aspects of the health of the local underrepresented minority community (Drs. Algert and Liang), psychological aspects of health care delivery to different ethnic groups (Dr. Alvarado), molecular physiology (Dr. Gruber), biomechanics (Dr. Wickler), and bioinformatics (Dr. Floriano).