The UC Berkeley Graduate/Undergraduate IMSD Program - An Integrated Approach

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案的目标是开发一个加州大学伯克利分校的IMSD计划，该计划将(1)增加进入生物医学博士课程的未被充分代表的少数族裔(URM)本科生的数量，以及(2)增加目前URM研究生进入生物医学研究职业，特别是作为教师的数量。拟议的计划将采取综合方法，涉及1)伯克利生物学学者计划(BSP)的本科生，2)伯克利生物医学公共卫生、自然资源和文学与科学专业的研究生，以及3)伯克利大学和三所合作学院和大学的生物医学教师。它的设计将利用BSP 16年来在本科方面的成功，以及伯克利一个非常成功的研究生发起组织(颜色科学家)的最佳组成部分，该组织培养了14名URM生物医学教师。该计划将为IMSD研究生提供网络活动、教师指导和机会：1)通过在我们的合作学院/大学(旧金山州立大学、米尔斯学院和孔特拉·科斯塔学院)提供生物医学课程的客座讲座来提高他们的教学技能；2)通过在课程、研讨会和研究实验室与BSP URM本科生合作来提高他们的指导技能。另一方面，资讯科技署的本科生奖学金(从工商及科技局的500个资源中心中挑选出来)将透过资助的研究机会、由该署院士提供的辅导，以及在其核心理科课程方面的学术支援而受惠。伯克利大学和我们的合作学院/大学的60多名生物医学教员组成的网络已承诺成为学者和研究员的导师，以支持这项提议和IMSD倡议的目标。这项为期四年的助学金共资助学生1)30名管理学院本科生及2)12名管理学院研究生。我们的项目目标是：1)对于IMSD学者，毕业后至少60%将直接进入生物医学博士课程；2)对于IMSD研究员，至少90%将完成博士学位并继续担任生物医学博士后研究员或教职。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of this proposal is to develop a UC Berkeley IMSD Program that will (1) increase the number of under-represented minority (URM) undergraduates that enter biomedical PhD programs, and (2) increase the number of current URM graduate students that enter biomedical research careers, especially as faculty. The proposed program will take an integrated approach that involves 1) undergraduates in Berkeley's Biology Scholars Program (BSP), 2) Berkeley biomedical graduate students in Public Health, Natural Resources, and Letters and Science, and 3) biomedical faculty from Berkeley and three partner colleges and universities. Its design will leverage the 16 years of undergraduate success of BSP combined with the best components of a highly successful graduate student initiated organization (Scientists of Color) at Berkeley that produced fourteen URM biomedical science faculty. The Program will provide IMSD Graduate Fellows with networking activities, faculty mentoring, and opportunities 1) to improve their teaching skills by giving guest lectures in biomedical courses at our partner colleges/universities (San Francisco State University, Mills College, and Contra Costa College) and 2) to improve their mentoring skills by working with BSP URM undergraduates in courses, seminars, and research labs. In turn, the IMSD Undergraduate Scholars (selected from among 500 URMs in BSP) will benefit through funded research opportunities, mentoring by IMSD Fellows and academic support in their core science courses. A network of over 60 biomedical faculty at Berkeley and our partner colleges/universities have committed to be mentors for both the Scholars and Fellows to support the goals of this proposal and the IMSD initiative. The total number of students supported by this four-year grant will be 1) 30 IMSD Undergraduate Scholars and 2) 12 IMSD Graduate Fellows. Our project targets are 1) for IMSD Scholars, upon graduation at least 60% will go directly into biomedical Ph.D. programs, and 2) for IMSD Fellows, at least 90% will complete their Ph.D. and continue on to a biomedical post-doctoral fellowship or faculty position.