Project ACE -- ACtion for Equity: A BUILDing SCHOLARS Pipeline

项目总结 ACE项目(为公平采取行动：建筑学者管道)建议创建一条管道， 在学业和社交方面做好准备的拉美裔学生来自三所经济困难的高中 德克萨斯州西部和新墨西哥州南部，他们将攻读本科专业，并最终在 生物医学科学研究。借鉴德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校(UTEP)的建筑学者 (建设通向多样性的基础设施：面向健康的教育领导者和西南联盟 研究学者)授予并放置在Johnson和Bozeman(2012)的资产捆绑框架中，项目 ACE是独一无二的，因为它让学生在高中水平上接触到跨学科的生物医学研究； 将他们的老师融入到研究经验中；并让学生的家庭参与他们的学术和 研究技能的增长。该提案寻求实现其增加生物医学多样性的目标 科学通过建立准备好的西班牙裔高中生的渠道：(1)提高他们的高 学校教师参与生物医学研究的研究技能和职业知识 指导暑期研究经验；(2)在高中学生中培养高学业成就的文化 学校通过严格的课堂教学，使用研究性课程，将 辅以辅导、SAT/ACT准备和简历撰写；以及(3)发展一种研究文化 高中生，高中生将在那里从事研究活动。高中生 将通过年度座谈会和与近距离同行导师的互动进入科学领域，毕业生 学生导师和UTEP教职员工将担任研究导师。这需要多层的 辅导方法，包括在学生所在的高中和在 UTEP。通过在高中阶段从事研究，我们希望看到科学认同感和 参与研究的学生的研究自我效能感；提高了研究技能并增加了对 生物医学职业。通过培养高学业成就的文化，我们希望参与的学生 将成为更具竞争力的申请人，申请专上程度的择优奖学金 并为生物医学研究人员做好更多准备。通过让高中教师参与 当代生物医学研究和向高中灌输研究和主动学习原则 课程，我们希望他们的学生更专注于学习，对生物医学研究更感兴趣， 更有可能在本科生期间攻读生物医学专业。这项提议意义重大，因为它将 利用UTEP的建筑学者和NIH资助的项目，以进一步促进 生物医学研究队伍的多样化。

PROJECT SUMMARY Project ACE (ACtion for Equity: A BUILDing SCHOLARS Pipeline) proposes to create a pipeline of academically and socially prepared Hispanic students from three economically disadvantaged high schools in Far West Texas and Southern New Mexico who will pursue undergraduate majors and eventually careers in biomedical science research. Drawing on The University of Texas at El Paso's (UTEP) BUILDing SCHOLARS (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity: Southwest Consortium of Health-Oriented education Leaders and Research Scholars) grant and couched in Johnson and Bozeman's (2012) asset bundles framework, Project ACE is unique because it exposes students to interdisciplinary biomedical research at the high school level; incorporates their teachers in research experiences; and engages students' families in their academic and research skills growth. The proposal seeks to accomplish its goal of increasing diversity in the biomedical sciences through creating a pipeline of prepared Hispanic high school students by: (1) enhancing their high school teachers' research skills and knowledge of careers in biomedical research through participation in mentored summer research experiences; (2) fostering a culture of high academic achievement amongst high school students through rigorous classroom instruction using research-infused curriculum that will be complemented by tutoring, SAT/ACT preparation and résumé writing; and (3) developing a research culture for high school students, where high school students will be engaged in research activities. High school students will be socialized into science through yearly symposia, and interaction with near-peer mentors, graduate student tutors and UTEP faculty members who will serve as research mentors. This entails a multi-tiered mentoring approach which involves research to be performed at both the student's high school as well as at UTEP. By engaging in research at the high school level, we expect to see increased science identity and research self-efficacy in the participating students; improved research skills and increased interest in biomedical careers. By fostering a culture of high academic achievement, we expect that participating students will become more competitive applicants for merit-based scholarship opportunities at the postsecondary level and be more prepared for the biomedical research workforce. By involving high school teachers in contemporary biomedical research and infusing research and active learning principles into high school curriculum, we expect their students to be more engaged in learning, more excited by biomedical research, and more likely to pursue biomedical majors as undergraduates. This proposal is significant because it will leverage BUILDing SCHOLARS and NIH-funded programs at UTEP in order to further contribute to the diversification of the biomedical research workforce.