ESTEEMED Honors Research Training at UTSA

美国需要一支强大的、多样化的博士级科学家和工程师队伍，以应对新出现的挑战。 在医疗保健方面。UTSA ESTEEMED计划的长期目标是培养一批杰出的 少数民族，弱势群体，或残疾新生的学生，目前代表性不足（UR）在生物科学， 发展成为科学家和领导者，以应对这些新兴挑战。UTSA是一个优秀的招聘 和培训基地，为这些未来的科学家，有一个大的UR人口和实验室，执行高 高质量的生物医学研究，并接受本科（UG）研究人员。UTSA还拥有高性能的 美国国立卫生研究院资助的MARC U* 星星荣誉研究培训计划，自1980年以来一直活跃，其中ESTEEMED 受训者可以在成为初级学员时过渡。拟议的ESTEEMED计划要求7项培训 在第一年和14个职位之后，保持一年级和二年级学员人数的平衡。 学员将从生物、化学、物理、心理、 和生物医学工程我们假设我们可以把这些新来的大学新生变成未来的 世界一流的科学家通过以下具体目标的实现：#1支持学术成就; #2支持作为科学家和科学传播者的成长; #3指导受训者的职业选择和多样化 领域，重点是生物医学计算;和#4促进领导力发展和解决已知的 乌拉圭人口获得普遍获得和博士学位的障碍。为实现这些目标而设计的许多活动 目标将在新生前桥梁计划中引入，贯穿新生的所有学期 和大二，并包括两个全职夏季研究计划在连续的夏天，一个在 UTSA和下一个在全国排名的大学或医疗中心。学员将面临挑战， 不断促进他们的个人和专业成长。例如，他们沉浸在研究中， 从实验室访问，到轮换，到UTSA的研究，再到在一个新城市的不同机构进行研究。成功 该计划将在GPA结果衡量;研究报告和出版物;进入 MARC;学位完成;进入博士培训;和长期的职业成果，以及 定性报告的信心增加或融入科学文化。独特的计划功能包括 一个UTSA支持的“额外”暑期课程，并提前完成MARC培训的第一学期， 这个夏天的计划，以更好地对齐ESTEEMED和MARC训练序列。同时，抑郁症 在研究生群体中猖獗，ESTEEMED学员将完成生物反馈培训，以提高 他们对压力的抵抗力计划成果将包括：至少95%的学员将完成学位， 50%将进展到MARC和75%的MARC学生将攻读博士学位;所有二年级学生将 目前在几个地方和一个国家会议，40%将获得作者的毕业。程序 成功将为在校园内纳入额外的新生干预提供证据。

The U.S. needs a strong, diverse workforce of PhD-level scientists and engineers to meet emerging challenges in healthcare. The long term goal of the UTSA ESTEEMED Program is to cultivate an exceptional cohort of minority, disadvantaged, or disabled freshmen students, currently underrepresented (UR) in the biosciences, to develop as scientists and leaders who rise to meet these emerging challenges. UTSA is an excellent recruiting and training ground for these future scientists, with a large UR population and laboratories that perform high quality biomedical research and embrace undergraduate (UG) researchers. UTSA also has a high-performing NIH-funded MARC U*STAR Honors Research Training Program, active since 1980, into which the ESTEEMED trainees can transition when they become juniors. The proposed ESTEEMED program requests 7 training positions in its first year and 14 thereafter, to maintain a balanced number of freshman and sophomore trainees. The trainees will be recruited from nine majors in the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, and Biomedical Engineering. We hypothesize that we can transform these incoming UR freshmen into future world-class scientists through accomplishment of the following Specific Aims: #1 support academic achievement; #2 support growth as a scientist and science communicator; #3 instruct trainees about career options and diverse fields, with a focus on biomedical computation; and #4 promote leadership development and address known barriers to UG and doctoral degree attainment in UR populations. The many activities designed to achieve these Aims will be introduced in a pre-Freshman Bridge Program, extend throughout all semesters of the freshman and sophomore years, and include two full-time summer research programs in consecutive summers, one at UTSA and the next at a nationally ranked university or medical center. The trainees will face challenges that continuously spur their personal and professional growth. For example, their immersion in research will progress from lab visits, to rotations, to research at UTSA, to research in a different institution in a new city. The success of the program will be measured in GPA outcomes; research presentations and publications; admission into MARC; degree completion; admission into doctoral training; and long term career outcomes, as well as qualitatively reported increases in confidence or integration into science culture. Unique program features include a UTSA-supported “extra” summer program, and early completion of the first semester of MARC training during this summer program, to better align the ESTEEMED and MARC training sequences. Also, with depression rampant in graduate student populations, ESTEEMED trainees will complete biofeedback training to improve their resistance to stress. Program outcomes will include: at least 95% of trainees will complete their degree, 50% will progress to the MARC and 75% of MARC matriculants will pursue a PhD; all second year students will present at several local and one national conference, and 40% will gain authorship by graduation. Program success will provide evidence for inclusion of additional freshman interventions on campus.