Initiative for Maximizing Student Development

 描述(由申请人提供)：范德比尔特大学最大限度地促进学生发展倡议的存在是为了增加S授予的生物医学研究方面的研究生的博士数量，按照美国国立卫生研究院的广义定义。我们的国家在生物医学研究方面面临许多挑战，以找到更好的治疗方法，并有望治愈一系列衰弱和/或致命的疾病，如癌症、肥胖症、心脏病、糖尿病和阿尔茨海默病。在这些领域取得进展所需的创新和问题解决需要一群不同的有才华的科学家，因为多样性会产生更多的新观点和更具创造性的解决方案。出于这些原因，并考虑到人口结构的变化，范德比尔特国际管理发展学院肩负着一项关键使命，即确保这个国家日益多样化的年轻人中最有才华的人接受生物医学研究职业生涯的培训，特别是那些否则他们的才华将得不到承认或实现的人。我们希望确保我们多样化的博士实习生为进入一系列职业道路做好充分准备，特别是作为科学领导者的教授，他们将负责推动创新的问题解决方法，并培训下一代追随者。通过实施整体招生方法，我们已经完全实现了招收多样化的研究生实习生群体的目标，目前第一年研究生课程的毕业生比例从20%到28%不等。此外，Vanderbilt IMSD项目始于2007年，迄今已培养出13名博士毕业生，他们要么在研究密集型大学、生物制药公司担任博士后学术职位，要么在少数族裔服务机构担任终身教职。在接下来的2-3年里，将有近20多名更高级的国际管理发展学院研究生完成博士培训。我们建议保留所有的支持和发展计划以及全面的指导，特别是同行指导，这些对我们的IMSD项目的成功至关重要。受“始终如一”这句谚语的启发，我们正在计划一项名为“加入教授”的新计划，该计划将专注于通过明确的培训(与范德比尔特·欧文商学院合作)和频繁接触非常成功的URM访问教师榜样来培养领导技能。尽管URM现在占美国大学适龄人口的三分之一，但他们在STEM领域只获得了15%-17%的理学士/工商管理硕士学位。因此，为了保持我们的进步，我们需要解决本科生的问题。我们与范德比尔特科学外展中心合作，设计了一个创新的大学前暑期科学外展计划，为URM预科学生提供一个机会，让他们在还在高中的时候就开始培养“科学身份”。同时，设计、指导和实施该项目的IMSD研究生将获得宝贵的领导力和教学技能。我们计划对我们的所有项目进行定期的总结性和形成性评估，以确保它们增加价值并与我们的使命保持一致。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The Initiative for Maximizing Student Development at Vanderbilt University exists to increase the number of Ph.D.'s awarded to graduate students in biomedical research who are underrepresented, as broadly defined by the NIH. Our nation faces many challenges in biomedical research to find better treatments and hopefully cures for a range of debilitating and/or fatal diseases such as cancer, obesity, heart disease, diabetes, and Alzheimer's disease. The innovation and problem solving needed to make progress in these areas requires a diverse group of talented scientists, because diversity generates greater numbers of new perspectives and more inventive solutions. For these reasons and given the demographic shifts in the population, the Vanderbilt IMSD has a key mission to ensure that the most talented of this country's increasingly diverse youth are trained for careers in biomedical research, especially those whose talent would be otherwise unrecognized or unrealized. We want to ensure our diverse Ph.D. trainees are well prepared to enter a range of career paths, but particularly the professoriate where, as scientific leaders, they will be responsible for drivig novel problem-solving approaches and training the next generation to follow. By implementing a holistic admissions approach, we have fully achieved the goal of enrolling a diverse group of graduate trainees, now ranging from 20-28% URM in our first-year graduate programs. Moreover, the Vanderbilt IMSD program, which began in 2007, has so far produced 13 Ph.D. graduates who have gone on to either academic postdoctoral positions at research-intensive universities, biopharma, or in one case a tenure-track faculty position at a minority serving institution. Nearly two dozen more advanced IMSD graduate students will be completing their Ph.D. training in the next 2-3 years ahead. We propose to maintain all of the support and development programs and comprehensive mentoring, especially peer mentoring, that have been vital to our IMSD program's success. Taking our cue from the adage "begin with the end in mind", we are planning a new initiative "Joining the Professoriate" that will focus on the development of leadership skills through both explicit training (in collaboration with the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Business) and frequent exposures to highly successful visiting URM faculty role models. Although URMs now comprise one-third of the US college-age population, they earn only 15-17% of the B.S./B.A. degrees in STEM fields. Thus, in order to sustain our progress, we need to address the undergraduate pipeline. In collaboration with the Vanderbilt Center for Science Outreach, we have designed an innovative pre-college summer science outreach program to offer URM pre-college students an opportunity to begin developing a "science identity" while still in high school. Simultaneously, the IMSD graduate students who design, direct, and implement the program will gain valuable leadership and teaching skills. We plan regular summative and formative assessments of all our programs to ensure they are adding value and aligned with our mission.