RISE Option III - UTSA MBRS-RISE Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：30多年来，NIGMS MBRS计划一直活跃在UTSA校园，并一直在培养谁追求博士培训和发展学生研究基础设施的学生工具。在这段时间里，UTSA已经成熟，研究教师，博士学位课程和校外资金的数量急剧增加，并发展成为一级研究机构的目标。自2007年以来，UTSA已经毕业了287名生物医学和行为科学专业的博士生，其中62名是UR;其中19名是RISE学员。与此同时，33名前RISE本科生和硕士生进入博士课程，20名前几年的学员获得博士学位。本提案的特点是活动和目标，以补充UTSA战略计划和相关举措的指令，特别是倡议#1：丰富教育经验，使学生成功，其中包括代表性不足的本科研究学员的成功。UTSA RISE计划的长期目标仍然是在生物医学和行为科学领域发展杰出的代表性不足的研究人员。该计划的目标是增加对生物医学研究感兴趣的学生的管道，加强现有的培训策略和活动，以促进学生入学， 科学培训的更高级阶段，并扩大对UTSA校园和社区的计划影响。我们将通过追求三个具体目标来实现我们的目标：目标#1 -加强现有的和实施新的外展和培训活动，以促进生物医学/行为研究作为一种职业的意识，以及预RISE，博士学位前本科生群体的发展;目标#2 -加强现有的和实施新的活动，以发展RISE本科生和博士生，促进他们的研究教育的下一阶段的准备;和目标#3 -开发活动，扩大研究和促进学生和教师的研究技能在UTSA。除了完善现有的活动，我们采用创新的机制，提高学员招聘和保留，以及促进本科研究文化的发展。拟议干预措施的理由是，它们将促进UTSA和NIGMS的目标，即增加URM学生攻读博士学位和进入学术生涯的人数。计划可衡量的目标包括50%的本科入学率，90%的博士实习生保留率;另外两名代表性不足的学生每年进入博士培训; 80%的博士生将提交主要赠款并进入研究密集型机构的博士后培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For over 30 years, the NIGMS MBRS programs have been active on the UTSA campus and have been instrumental in training students who pursue doctoral training and developing student research infrastructure. Over this time, UTSA has matured, with dramatic increases in the number of research faculty, doctoral degree programs, and extramural funding and a goal of developing into a Tier 1 research institution. Since 2007 UTSA has graduated 287 doctoral students in majors that serve the biomedical and behavioral sciences, of whom 62 were UR; 19 of these were RISE trainees. At the same time, 33 former RISE undergraduate and master's students entered doctoral program and 20 trainees from prior years received their doctorates. The present proposal features activities and goals that complement directives of the UTSA Strategic Plan and associated initiatives, particularly Initiative #1: Enriching Educational Experiences to Enable Student Success, which encompasses the success of underrepresented undergraduate research trainees. The long- term goal of the UTSA RISE program continues to be the development of exceptional underrepresented researchers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The goals of the proposed program are to increase the pipeline of students interested in biomedical research as a career, enhance existing training strategies and activities to promote student matriculation into more advanced stages of scientific training, and broaden program impact on the UTSA campus and community. We will achieve our objectives by pursuing three specific aims: Aim #1 - Enhance existing and implement new outreach and training activities to promote awareness of biomedical/behavioral research as a career and the development of pre-RISE, pre-PhD undergraduate populations; Aim #2 - Enhance existing and implement new activities to develop RISE undergraduate and PhD trainees, to promote their preparedness for the next stage of their research education; and Aim #3 - Develop activities that broaden access to research and promote student and faculty research skills at UTSA. In addition to refining existing activities, w employ innovative mechanisms for RISE trainee recruitment and retention, as well as promote the development of an undergraduate research culture. The rationale for the proposed interventions is that they will promote UTSA and NIGMS goals of increasing the number of URM students who pursue doctorates and launch into academic careers. Program Measurable Objectives include 50% undergraduate matriculation, 90% doctoral trainee retention; two additional underrepresented students entering doctoral training annually; and 80% of PhD students will submit major grants and matriculate to postdoctoral training in research intensive institutions.