Interim Funding: Medgar Evers College Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement

纽约城市大学的Medgar Evers学院（MEC）成立， 锚，并提供优质，负担得起的高等教育，以中央布鲁克林居民，谁 通常面临着共同的城市挑战：高贫困，犯罪和失业，挣扎的K-12 公立学校和资源匮乏。学校7,000个学位中的98% 寻求学生来自在科学领域代表性不足的人群， 压力很大，几乎所有人都代表了他们家庭的第一代大学生。 教育部已开始与国家开展创新和实质性的机构合作， 距离纽约大学Downstate医学中心校区不到2英里。临时 资助计划旨在继续利用这种机构合作， 学生追求最高水平的学术和专业成就的能力， 同时建立教育部长期的研究和培训能力。 这个MEC NIGMS-RISE计划将加强一般机构的研究文化，并在 特别是MEC本科生的研究培训，导致人数增加 在生物医学科学领域攻读博士学位的学生。该计划在其第一个奖项 学校为16名学生提供了资助。在此期间，该计划有8个 学生参与者离开，直到他们毕业。这些学生一直 我被安排在纽约州立大学南部实验室的一位研究导师那里实习一年 医学中心，并在MEC的研究活跃的实验室。 根据其在最初的资金申请中概述的目的和目标，该计划 我会继续提供强化课程，为这些学生入学作好准备 进入竞争激烈的研究生（博士和MD/博士）在生物医学科学课程。的 该计划继续提供几个强制性的发展讲习班/课程;加强 MEC的机构研究文化，通过利用MEC RISE计划， 年度校园研讨会，以展示学生在MEC的研究成果， 支持与会者前往参加地方和区域会议并在会上发言。

Medgar Evers College (MEC) of the City University of New York was established to serve as an anchor and to provide quality, affordable higher education to Central Brooklyn residents, who often face common urban challenges: high poverty, crime, and unemployment, struggling K-12 public schools, and a dearth of resources. Ninety-eight percent of the college’s 7,000 degree- seeking students come from populations that are underrepresented in the sciences, financially stressed, and almost all represent the first generation attending college from their families. MEC has embarked on an innovative and substantial institutional collaboration with the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center campus located within 2 miles. The interim funding program is designed to continue leveraging this institutional collaboration by facilitating students’ ability to pursue the highest levels of academic and professional achievement in scientific disciplines while building MEC longer-term research and training capacity. This MEC NIGMS-RISE program will enhance the general institutional research culture and in particular, research training among MEC undergraduates, resulting in increases in the number of students pursuing doctoral study in the biomedical sciences. The program in its first award cycle received funding for 16 students. In this interim funding period, the program has eight student participants left to be supported until their graduation. These students have been placed in year-ling internship with a research mentor in laboratories at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, and at research-active laboratories at MEC. In consistence with its aims and objectives outlined in its initial funding application, the program will continue providing an enhanced curriculum aimed at preparing these students for admission into competitive graduate (PhD and MD/PhD) programs in the biomedical sciences. The program continues offering several mandatory developmental workshops/courses; enhance the institutional research culture at MEC through leveraging the MEC RISE program by hosting an annual on-campus symposium to demonstrate student research achievement at MEC and support participants travel and presentations to local and regional conferences.