Building Bridges to Bioengineering

描述（由申请人提供）：建筑生物工程桥梁（B3）将与来自西雅图社区学院的代表性不足的少数民族学生合作，因为他们过渡到华盛顿大学（UW）和其他四年制大学的学士学位课程。B3计划将重点关注生物工程和生物技术如何用于解决全球健康问题。B3计划将为学生提供学术机会和指导研究经验，并将包括研讨会和研讨会，为学生提供科学演示的经验。该计划将为学生提供从社区学院成功过渡到四年制大学所需的背景和经验。通过这一努力，合作机构将提供一个优秀的URM学生感兴趣的生物医学研究的来源，在华盛顿大学和其他大学的各种部门。B3计划将涉及10 - 20名非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，美洲原住民和/或美国太平洋岛屿的学生，他们目前就读于西雅图中央社区学院（SCCC）。这些学生将参加一个新的课程“生物技术与世界卫生。"学生们还将参加研讨会和研讨会，以获得向各种观众介绍科学研究的经验。这些经验将为学生提供必要的技能，使科学海报和口头报告，并为技术期刊写作。完成本课程的一批学生将在华盛顿大学生物工程系，材料科学系或其他系的实验室内获得指导实验室经验。参加指导实验室项目的学生将在夏季研究研讨会期间与其他UW项目的其他本科生一起展示他们的工作。我们预期在五年内：a）由参与计划的副学士学位颁授院校转读生物医学/行为科学学士学位课程的目标组别/人口的整体转读率将增加50%; B）至少70%的Bridges学生在副学士学位课程毕业时或之前，将转入生物医学/行为科学学士学位课程; c）至少75%的转学学生将成功完成生物医学/行为科学学士学位。 公共卫生相关性：建设生物工程桥梁（B3）将与来自西雅图社区学院的代表性不足的少数民族学生合作，因为他们过渡到华盛顿大学（UW）和其他四年制大学的学士学位课程。B3计划将重点关注生物工程和生物技术如何用于解决全球健康问题。B3计划将为学生提供学术机会和指导研究经验，并将包括研讨会和研讨会，为学生提供科学演示的经验。该计划将为学生提供从社区学院成功过渡到四年制大学所需的背景和经验。通过这一努力，合作机构将为UW和其他大学的各个部门提供对生物医学研究感兴趣的优秀URM学生的来源。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Building Bioengineering Bridges (B3) will work with underrepresented minority students from Seattle Community College as they transition to baccalaureate degree programs at the University of Washington (UW) and other four-year universities. The B3 program will focus on how bioengineering and biotechnology can be used to solve global health problems. The B3 program will provide both academic opportunities and mentored research experiences for students and will include workshops and seminars to provide students will experience giving scientific presentations. The program will provide students with the background and experiences necessary to successfully transition from their community college to four-year universities. Through this effort, the partnering institutions will provide a source of outstanding URM students' interested biomedical research to a variety of departments within the UW and other universities. The B3 program will involve 10-20 African American, Hispanic American, Native American, and/or Natives of the US Pacific Islands students who are currently enrolled at Seattle Central Community College (SCCC). These students will enroll in a new course "Biotechnology & World Health." Students will also attend workshops and seminars presentations to gain experience presenting scientific research to various audiences. These experiences will provide students with the skills necessary to give scientific poster and oral presentations and to write for technical journals. A cohort of students who complete this course will be offered mentored-laboratory experiences within laboratories in the Department of Bioengineering, Material Sciences or other departments at the UW. Students who participate in the mentored laboratory program will present their work with other undergraduate students enrolled in other UW programs during a summer research symposium. We expect that in five years: a) the overall institutional transfer rate of students from targeted groups/populations from the participating associate degree-granting institution(s) to baccalaureate degree programs in biomedical/behavioral sciences will increase by 50%; b) at least 70% of the Bridges students, upon or before graduation from the associate degree program, will transfer to baccalaureate degree programs in biomedical/behavioral sciences; and c) at least 75% of the transferring Bridges students will successfully complete their bachelor's degrees in biomedical/behavioral sciences. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: Building Bioengineering Bridges (B3) will work with underrepresented minority students from Seattle Community College as they transition to baccalaureate degree programs at the University of Washington (UW) and other four-year universities. The B3 program will focus on how bioengineering and biotechnology can be used to solve global health problems. The B3 program will provide both academic opportunities and mentored research experiences for students and will include workshops and seminars to provide students will experience giving scientific presentations. The program will provide students with the background and experiences necessary to successfully transition from their community college to four-year universities. Through this effort, the partnering institutions will provide a source of outstanding URM students interested biomedical research to a variety of departments within the UW and other universities.