SDSU Initiative for Maximizing Student Development (SDSU IMSD)

描述(由申请人提供)：南加州大学少数民族生物医学研究支持计划(MBRS)IMSD计划的总体目标是增加来自代表不足的群体的学生数量，他们获得生物医学、行为和物理科学的博士学位。我们将促进他们接触科学、学术和作为研究人员的职业。该计划将为20名本科生提供教师指导、定制咨询、课外体验以及在项目期间每年与积极参与的同行交流的机会。我们已经组建了一个由积极的研究导师组成的专门团队，他们将为我们的学生提供实践研究培训。我们的管理和评估计划将衡量和确保项目和学生的成功。我们将为学生提供高度个性化的体验，让他们成为未来成功的科学领袖，从而提高学术科学家的多样性。此外，我们还提供了我们的计划对学生产生的影响的文件。我们的培训计划将为学生带来强大的、竞争激烈的应用程序 博士项目，以便至少60%的毕业大四学生将直接进入生物医学、行为和物理科学的博士项目。为了实现这一长期目标，我们计划(1)为大一/大二学生实施IMSD之前的生物医学探索计划(BEP)，介绍生物医学研究以及为攻读生物医学/行为科学研究生院提前做准备的途径；(2)提供全年辅导研究经验，让20名IMSD本科生获得优秀的研究和实验室技能；以及(3)发展所有项目参与者的批判性思维和口头和书面交流能力，提供机会向专业受众展示他们的研究成果，并为发表提供稿件。我们还提出了与项目评估相关的三个目标：(1)系统地使用定量和定性数据收集和建立全面的电子跟踪数据库的方法来衡量项目结果；(2)使用数据通过维护最有效的要素和修改最无效的要素来持续改进项目；(3)记录SDSU IMSD项目的过程，使其成为问责的典范，并确保未来的成功。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall aim of the SDSU Minority Biomedical Research Support Program (MBRS) IMSD program is to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups who attain Ph.D. degrees in the biomedical, behavioral and physical sciences. We will facilitate their exposure to science, academia and careers as researchers. The program will provide 20 undergraduates with faculty mentoring, customized advising, extracurricular experiences and opportunities for communicating with engaged peers each year during the course of the project period. We have assembled a dedicated group of active research mentors who will provide our students with hands-on research training. Our management and assessment plan will measure and ensure program and student success. We will provide a highly personalized experience to the students so that they can become the successful science leaders of tomorrow, and thereby, improve the diversity of academic scientists. Furthermore, we provide documentation of the effects our program has had upon students. Our training program will result in students with strong, highly competitive applications for doctoral programs such that at least 60% of our graduating seniors will directly enter into Ph.D. programs in the biomedical, behavioral and physical sciences. To accomplish this long-term goal, we plan to (1) implement a Pre-IMSD Biomedical Exploration Program (BEP) for freshman/sophomore students to introduce biomedical research and the pathway to preparing early for graduate school in the biomedical/behavioral sciences, (2) provide year-round mentored research experiences that will allow 20 IMSD undergraduate students to acquire excellent research and laboratory skills, and (3) develop the critical thinking and oral and writte communication skills of all program participants, by providing opportunities to present their research before professional audiences and to contribute to manuscripts for publication. We also propose three aims related to program evaluation: (1) to systematically measure program outcomes with mixed methods of quantitative and qualitative data collection and the establishment of a comprehensive electronic tracking database, (2) to use the data to continuously improve the program by maintaining elements that are most effective and modifying those that are least effective, and (3) to document the process of the SDSU IMSD program so that it becomes a model of accountability and to assure future success.