UMDNJ-Rutgers University Pipeline Program

描述：这项提案是为了更新一项最大化学生多样性奖的倡议，该奖支持UMDNJ-罗格斯大学管道计划，该计划旨在增加对未被充分代表的少数民族(URM)博士生物医学科学家的培训和毕业。这个IMSD的基础是分子生物科学研究生项目伞(MBS)，在过去的12年里支持了73名研究生，其中30人获得了博士学位，并继续从事科学事业或进一步培训，还有25人仍在这里接受培训，2人在其他机构。这一IMSD一直是增加MBS项目博士候选人数量(目前为50人)的催化剂，这项资助的续签以及博士和院校项目补充桥的增长将增加这一数字。在上一个资助期，IMSD学员的流失率只有5%，我们希望保持或改善这一纪录。自管理学院成立以来，按揭证券市场计划的市场失败率一直低於整体学生的流失率，显示计划的成功。为IMSD学员提供的支援服务包括认知技能评估及培训、学生辅导计划、学生健康计划、灵活的课程安排、灵活的学科选择、活跃的生物科学研究生联谊会，以及由教师导师组成的支援小组。一门新的必修量化问题课程有助于培训学员为科学职业做准备。该学院致力于通过授予博士学位继续支持所有研究生，所有资质良好的IMSD学员在获得IMSD资助后都得到了这种支持，包括许多获得NIH或NSF个人奖学金或得到培训或研究补助金支持的学员。在下一阶段，我们建议增加一门必修的科学写作课程和一项基因组分析实验室练习(这将是现有课程的一部分)。评估表明，我们计划的成功在一定程度上是基于受训人员作为MBS计划的一部分作为生物医学科学家的认同，而不是作为URM受训人员特定计划的一部分而以某种方式分开的。评估是为了研究社会认同、社会支持和自我效能感如何受到项目组成部分的影响，并对受训者的整体成功做出贡献。

DESCRIPTION: This proposal is for renewal of an Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity Award, which supports the UMDNJ-Rutgers University Pipeline Program, which aims to increase the training and graduation of underrepresented minority (URM) Ph.D. biomedical scientists. This IMSD is based in the Molecular Biosciences Graduate Programs umbrella (MBS), and has supported 73 graduate students over the past 12 years, 30 of whom have received the Ph.D. and gone on to scientific careers or further training, with 25 more still in training here and 2 in other institutions. This IMSD has been the catalyst for increasing the number of Ph.D. candidates in the MBS programs (currently 50), and renewal of this grant and the growth of complementary Bridge to the Doctorate and institutional programs will increase that number. In the previous funding period, the attrition rate among IMSD trainees was only 5%, and we hope to maintain or improve that record. Since the inception of the IMSD, the attrition rate of URM candidates in the MBS programs has been below that of the overall student population, indicating program success. Support services for IMSD trainees include cognitive skills evaluation and training, a student tutoring program, student wellness program, flexible curriculum, flexibility in disciplinary selection, an active Biosciences Graduate Student Association and a supportive group of faculty mentors. A new required Quantitative Problems course helps to prepare trainees for science careers. This school is committed to continuous support of all graduate students through award of the Ph.D., and all IMSD trainees in good standing have had such support after IMSD funding, including many who have won individual NIH or NSF fellowships or have been supported by training or research grants. In the next period we propose to add a required scientific writing course and a laboratory exercise in genomic analysis (which will be part of an existing course). Evaluation has suggested that success of our program is based, in part, on identification by the trainees as biomedical scientists as part of the MBS programs rather than as somehow separated as part of a program specific for URM trainees. Evaluation is planned to study how social identity, social support and self-efficacy are impacted by program components and contribute to overall success of trainees.