Partnership for Minority Science Education (PMSE)

描述（由申请人提供）：领导力联盟的总体目标是通过研究生培训和专业学徒制来确定，培训和网络年轻的代表性不足的少数民族科学家，以竞争学院的职位。少数民族科学教育伙伴关系（PMSE）计划对这一总体目标的贡献是增加科学研究生课程中代表性不足的少数民族的数量。该提案的五个具体目标是：1）招募多样化的，以研究为导向的本科生作为计划参与者; 2）在学术学者社区提供高质量的夏季研究经验; 3）为计划参与者提供研究项目背景的介绍; 4）监控进入和完成研究生研究项目的学生人数; 5）评估 计划成果和传播最佳做法。具体而言，我们正在寻求支持，从2006年7月1日至2011年6月30日，每年为120名与生物医学相关的生物医学和行为科学专业的学生提供辅助培训活动。此外，本提案还寻求部分资金，用于对私营军事和社会经济项目进行全面的形成性和总结性评价，为联盟研究导师的举措提供支助，并为联盟执行办公室工作人员提供部分支助。我们的努力，通过PMSE，旨在为那些渴望获得博士学位的学生提供鼓励。导致他们更大的接受和坚持在全国各地的竞争研究生课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the Leadership Alliance is to identify, train and network young underrepresented minority scientists in and through graduate training and professional apprenticeships to compete for positions in the academy. The contribution of the Partnership for Minority Science Education (PMSE) program to this overall goal is to increase the number of underrepresented minorities in graduate programs in the sciences. The five specific aims of the proposal are to: 1) Recruit Diverse, Research-Oriented Undergraduates as Program Participants; 2) Provide High Quality, Summer Research Experiences in the Community of Academic Scholars; 3) Provide Program Participants with an Introduction to the Context of the Research Professions; 4) Monitor the Number of Students Who Enter and Complete Graduate Research Programs; 5) Evaluate Program Outcomes and Disseminate Best Practices. Specifically, we are seeking support for ancillary training activities of 120 students per year in biomedical and behavioral sciences majors relevant to biomedicine from 7/1/2006 to 6/30/2011. In addition, this proposal seeks partial funding for a comprehensive formative and summative evaluation of the PMSE project, support for initiatives for Alliance research mentors, and partial support for the Alliance Executive Office staff. Our efforts, through PMSE, are intended to provide encouragement to students who aspire to obtain a Ph.D. to result in their greater acceptance to and persistence in competitive graduate programs across the country.