MBRS SCORE Program at Chicago State University

位于芝加哥南部的芝加哥州立大学（CSU）是一所文科公立大学 非裔美国学生占主导地位。CSU为黑人学生提供最高比例的服务 所有公立大学在伊利诺伊州印第安纳州洛瓦州威斯康星州连续四个州的地区，它 产生了最多的黑人学士学位获得者。作为一所城市综合性大学， 科罗拉多州立大学面临着教育学生的机会和挑战，这些学生大多是在美国长大的， 在校园十英里半径内接受教育，是经济上处于不利地位的人的产物。 背景，通常是高中教育，这并没有为大学水平的工作做好准备。 CSU MBRS SCORE计划是对NIH倡议的回应，旨在显着改善研究 提高少数群体和为少数群体服务的机构的能力， 进入生物医学博士课程的少数民族学生人数。定量 CSU MBRS SCORE计划的目标是（一）增加从事初级教师的数量 生物医学研究，以及（ii）增加CSU生物医学研究出版物的数量 教师该计划的定性目标是在CSU创造一个研究环境， 激励教师从事发现研究，并鼓励学生直接 他们的职业目标是在生物医学研究的领导地位。 CSU计划围绕学院领导的生物学和化学研究项目组织活动。 目前的计划包括八个由行政长官发起的研究项目，其中除一个外，所有项目都由 在过去四年内被聘用的初级教师。这一新的申请建议增加 支持的项目数量增加到十四个项目和一个试点项目。这一增加的资金 发现研究将为少数民族学生提供额外的培训机会，从而 影响进入生物医学研究职业的非洲裔美国人的数量。

Located on the south-side of Chicago, Chicago State University (CSU) is a liberal arts, public institution with a predominantly African-American student body. CSU serves the highest proportion of black students of all public universities in the Illinois-lndiana-lowa-Wisconsin contiguous four-state region where it produces the largest of black baccalaureate degree recipients. As an urban comprehensive university, CSU faces both the opportunity and the challenge of educating students who are mostly raised and educated within a ten-mile radius of the campus and are products of both an economically-disadvantaged background and often a high-school education which has not prepared them for college-level work. The CSU MBRS SCORE Program is a response to the NIH initiative to improve significantly the research capabilities of minority and minority-serving institutions as a means to address the need to increase the numbers of minority students entering doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. The quantitative goals of the CSU MBRS SCORE Program are (i) to increase the number of junior faculty engaged in biomedical research, and (ii) to increase the number of biomedical research publications from CSU teaching faculty. The qualitative goal of the Program is to create a research environment at CSU which stimulates faculty to engage in discovery research and which, by example, encourages students to direct their career goals to leadership positions in biomedical research. The CSU Program organizes its activities around faculty-led research projects in biology and chemistry. The current Program consists of eight investigator-initiated research projects of which all but one is led by junior faculty who have been hired within the past four years. This new Application proposes an increase in the number of projects supported to fourteen projects and one pilot project. This increase in funded discovery research will provide additional training opportunities for minority students and will thereby impact the number of African-Americans entering careers in biomedical research.