MIDARP at Hunter College

描述（由申请人提供）：亨特学院是一所历史悠久的城市大学，具有教育人口的历史，这些人口接受高等教育的机会在历史上一直受到限制。几十年来，超过60%的亨特学院本科生一直是服务不足的学生，目前约75%的学生是女性。多年来，我们已经证明了一个坚定的承诺，教育我们独特的学生群体，与全方位的学术课程，从本科班到博士论文研究，通过纽约市立大学的研究生中心。此外，心理学系有一个专注于滥用药物的核心研究人员。NIDA认识到我们的教学和科学潜力，并于1999年授予亨特MIDARP赠款。该补助金的目标是发展已经参与药物滥用研究的初级教师的职业生涯，首次参与药物滥用研究的高级教师，参与药物滥用研究的本科生和研究生，并改善学院的研究基础设施。所有目标均已实现并超额完成。两个初级教师，都是少数民族学者，已经开发了他们的研究计划，并成为公认的专家在各自的领域;我们的资深杰出教授现在深入参与药物滥用研究，并担任顾问NIDA。本科生和研究生已进入一流的博士学位。计划和博士后奖学金在著名的实验室。我们改善了设施，获得了主要设备赠款，并正在扩大和更新我们的动物设施。该更新申请建议将MIDARP计划移至下一阶段：为我们的MIDARP教师获得独立的NIH资金，包括新的教师，其感兴趣的领域包括生物行为和心理社会研究，使我们能够扩大我们的成功与学生指导，包括新的学生干部，并继续努力改善研究基础设施和宣传药物滥用研究。我们这样做与一个经验丰富，资金充足，成功的计划主任谁拥有大量的指导经验，并完全致力于MIDARP的目标，并与深思熟虑的计划，实现这些目标。我们提出了准备NIH R 01申请的机制，评估初级教师的新项目，招募新学生，包括参加新的CUNY荣誉课程的本科生的大学学者，为这些学生准备最好的博士学位。我们的计划，并继续获得资金，以改善我们的基础设施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hunter College is a long existing urban university with a history of educating populations whose access to higher education has been historically limited. For decades, over 60% of Hunter College undergraduates have been underserved students and currently about 75% of our students are women. Throughout the years, we have demonstrated a strong commitment to educate our unique population of students, with a full range of academic programs, from undergraduate classes to doctoral dissertation research through the CUNY's Graduate Center. Moreover, the Department of Psychology has a core of researchers focused on drugs of abuse. NIDA recognized our didactic and scientific potential and awarded a MIDARP grant to Hunter in 1999. The goals of that grant were to develop the careers of junior faculty already involved in drug abuse research, engage a senior faculty member for the first time in drug abuse research, involve undergraduate and graduate students in drug abuse research, and improve the research infrastructure at the College. All goals were met and exceeded. The two junior faculty, both minority scholars, have developed their research programs and are becoming recognized as experts in their fields; our senior Distinguished Professor is now deeply involved in drug abuse research and has served as a consultant to NIDA. Undergraduate and graduate students have moved into top-notch Ph.D. programs and to postdoctoral fellowships in distinguished laboratories. We have improved facilities, obtained major equipment grants, and are in the process of expanding and updating our animal facility. This renewal application proposes to move the MIDARP program to the next stage: obtain independent NIH funding for our MIDARP faculty, include new faculty whose areas of interest include biobehavioral and psychosocial research allowing us to expand our success with student mentoring to include new cadres of students, and continue our efforts to improve research infrastructure and publicize drug abuse research. We do so with a highly experienced, well-funded, and successful Program Director who has substantial mentoring experience and is committed fully to the goals of MIDARP, and with well thought out plans for achieving these goals. We propose mechanisms for preparing NIH R01 applications, evaluating new projects from junior faculty, recruiting new students, including University Scholars who are undergraduates enrolled in the new CUNY Honors program, preparing those students to be highly competitive for the best Ph.D. programs in the Country, and continuing to obtain funding to improve our infrastructure.