Program to Support Student Development and Diversity in Duke Biosciences

描述(由申请人提供)：我们为杜克大学提出了一个广泛的IMSD项目，以促进本科生和研究生水平的学生发展和多样性。在本科生层面，我们将提供学术支持和文化参与部分，包括研究经验。本科生IMSD学者将经历至少四个学期和一个为期10周的暑期项目的独立指导研究，并在全国ABCRMS或SACNAS会议上展示他们的研究。他们还将受益于额外的指导，一个独特的第一年研讨会课程，以及在入门课程期间的小组学习。IMSD研究生将参加提前一个月开始的研究活动，包括职业发展活动、社区参与和提前开始研究轮换。IMSD的研究生奖学金获得者还将受益于不同寻常的提前前往科学会议或研讨会/迷你课程(例如伍兹霍尔课程)，以及与IMSD有联系的教职员工的额外指导，以及持续的职业和社区参与活动(除了早期开始之外)。几项计划活动还旨在将本科生和研究生IMSD学者和杜克大学的教职员工整合到一个更有凝聚力的社区中，并促进杜克大学和北卡罗来纳州院校的教职员工/学生之间的联系，特别是那些本科生人数严重不足的支线机构。Duke IMSD项目的目标是增加UR本科生在生物医学/行为学领域的留存率，消除UR本科生与非UR本科生在入门课程中的成就差距，将UR学生在我们的生物医学/行为学博士项目中的比例增加一倍，为UR学生在这些项目中创造更强大的社区意识，并改善与邻近高等教育机构的沟通。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a broad IMSD Program for Duke University to promote student development and diversity at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. At the undergraduate level, we will provide both academic support and cultural engagement components, including research experiences. Undergraduate IMSD Scholars will experience independent mentored research for at least four semesters and one 10-week summer program, and present their research at the national ABCRMS or SACNAS conference. They will also benefit from additional mentoring, a unique first-year seminar course, and group learning during gateway courses. Graduate IMSD Scholars will participate in Early Start, beginning graduate school a month ahead of time with career development activities, community engagement, and an early start to research rotations. Graduate IMSD Scholars will also benefit from unusually early travel to a scientific conference or workshop/minicourse (e.g. Woods Hole Course) and from additional mentoring from an IMSD-connected faculty member and continued career and community engagement activities (beyond the Early Start). Several program activities are also designed to integrate the Undergraduate and Graduate IMSD Scholars and Duke faculty members into a more cohesive community and to facilitate connections between faculty/students at Duke and those at North Carolina institutions, particularly feeder institutions with a significant underrepresented (UR) undergraduate population. The goals of the Duke IMSD Program are to increase retention of undergraduate UR students in the biomedical/behavior fields, to eliminate achievement gaps between UR and non-UR undergraduates in gateway courses, to double the percentage of UR students in our biomedical/behavioral PhD programs, to create a more robust sense of community for UR students in these programs, and to improve communication with neighboring institutions of higher education.