Initiative for Maximizing Student Development Program at Wayne State University

描述（由申请人提供）：韦恩州立大学（WSU）IMSD计划正在请求支持，以维持其成功的研究生培训计划。该计划将继续每年培养10名研究生，这些学生将在研究生学习的第一年和第二年被选中。研究生部分将继续侧重于提高毕业率和毕业时间。我们将继续有一个职业发展的组成部分和一个新的组成部分，以提高教学技能。教师沿着与以前支持的IMSD研究生将作为一个团队来开发的内容，并提出的内容是与第一年的科学课程和实验室开发的本科组成部分相关的学习社区。参与的研究生可以学习有效的课程开发以及教学技能。此外，我们正在请求支持建立一个本科科学研究计划的前提下，有效的科学在本科水平需要一个个性化的方法。这种个性化的方法对于来自不同背景的学生尤其是少数民族学生尤为重要。在社会支持的环境中进行结构化的动手互动学习是将少数民族学生的文化轨迹转向科学研究学术生涯的关键。我们已经构建了一个程序，这将使我们能够“个性化”我们的研究生和本科生的学术和研究经验，以实现我们的计划的目标。IMSD本科课程将有三个基本的综合组成部分：（1）学术提高;（2）本科生研究;（3）职业发展。学术增强部分旨在使大一理科学生有一个良好的学术开端，专注于数学能力，并通过个性化的核心科学讲座和实验室使用专门的学习社区。大学的经验将进一步加强同侪指导。本科生指导的研究计划将被整合到整个本科生的经验。我们设计了一种分阶段的方法，第一学年为学生介绍研究以及学习基本的实验室技能。从第一年的第二学期开始，他们将进入一个研究实验室，并参加在整个大学生涯中持续的指导研究经验。教师研究导师是从广泛的教师，有活跃的研究计划选择。这些学术和研究经验沿着专业发展，应导致学术和科学研究的职业生涯。预计每年将有8名新的本科生参加该计划，并一直持续到毕业。更多的学生将受到“光环”效应的影响。该计划将由计划主任在计划管理员和咨询委员会的协助下管理。一个广泛的评估计划和跟踪组件被集成到该计划。 公共卫生相关性：韦恩州立大学（WSU）IMSD计划旨在增加少数民族（由NIH定义）学生攻读生物医学和行为科学学位的数量。美国少数民族科学家严重短缺，韦恩州立大学的IMSD项目正在努力缓解这一问题。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Wayne State University (WSU) IMSD program is requesting support to maintain its successful graduate training program. The program will continue to train 10 graduate students per year and these students will be selected in their first and second year of graduate study. The graduate component will continue to focus on increasing graduation rates and time to graduation. We will continue to have a career development component and a new component to augment teaching skills. Faculty along with previously supported IMSD graduate students will work as a team to develop the content, and present the content to the learning communities that are associated with the first year science courses and laboratories developed for the undergraduate component. The engaged graduate students can learn effective curriculum development as well as teaching skills. Also we are requesting support to establish an undergraduate science research program based on the premise that effective science at the undergraduate level requires an individualized approach. This personalized approach is especially important for students from a diverse background, especially minority students. A structured hands-on interactive learning in a socially supportive environment is key to bending the cultural trajectory of minority students toward an academic career in scientific research. We have structured a program that will allow us to "personalize" both the academic and research experience of both our graduate and undergraduate students to achieve the goals of our program. The IMSD undergraduate program will have three basic integrated components: (1) academic enhancement; (2) undergraduate student research; and (3) career development. The academic enhancement component is designed to enable freshman science students to have an excellent academic beginning by focusing on mathematics competency and by personalizing the core science lectures and laboratories using specialized learning communities. The college experience will be further enhanced by peer mentoring. The undergraduate mentored research program will be integrated into the entire undergraduate experience. We have designed a phased approach where the first academic year gives students an introduction to research as well as learning basic laboratory skills. Starting the second semester of the first year they will enter a research laboratory and participate in a mentored research experience continuing throughout their college career. The faculty research mentors are selected from a wide array of faculty that have active research programs. These academic and research experiences along with professional development should lead to careers in academic and scientific research. It is anticipated that 8 new undergraduate students will participate in the program each year and continue until graduation. A larger number of students will be impacted by the "halo" effect. The program will be administered by the program director with the assistance of a program administrator and an Advisory Committee. An extensive evaluation plan and tracking component is integrated into the program. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The Wayne State University (WSU) IMSD program is designed to increase the number of ethnic minority (as defined by NIH) students pursuing degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences. There is a severe shortage of ethnic minority scientists in the nation and IMSD Program at Wayne State University is working towards alleviating that problem.