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

项目摘要 ACE项目（ACTION FOR EQUITY：A BUILDING SCHOLARS Pipeline）建议创建一个 来自美国三所经济条件较差的高中的西班牙裔学生， 远西得克萨斯州和南部新墨西哥州谁将追求本科专业，并最终在职业生涯 生物医学科学研究德克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校（UTEP）建筑学院 （建设基础设施，导致多样性：西南健康导向教育领导者联盟和 研究学者）资助，并在约翰逊和波兹曼（2012年）的资产捆绑框架，项目 ACE是独一无二的，因为它使学生在高中阶段进行跨学科的生物医学研究; 将他们的教师纳入研究经验;并让学生的家庭参与他们的学术和 研究技能的增长。该提案旨在实现其增加生物医学领域多样性的目标。 科学通过创建一个管道准备西班牙裔高中学生：（1）提高他们的高 学校教师的研究技能和知识的职业生涯在生物医学研究，通过参与， 指导暑期研究经验;（2）培养高学术成就的文化， 学校学生通过严格的课堂教学使用研究注入课程，将 辅之以辅导，SAT/ACT准备和简历写作;和（3）发展研究文化， 高中学生，在那里高中学生将从事研究活动。高中生 将通过每年的研讨会，并与近同行的导师，研究生互动社会化到科学 学生导师和UTEP教职员工谁将担任研究导师。这需要一个多层次的 指导的方法，其中涉及研究将在学生的高中，以及在 UTEP。通过参与高中阶段的研究，我们希望看到更多的科学身份， 参与学生的研究自我效能感;提高研究技能和增加对 生物医学职业通过培养高学术成就的文化，我们希望参与的学生 将成为更有竞争力的申请者，以获得中学后水平的择优奖学金机会 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注入研究和积极的学习原则到高中 课程，我们希望他们的学生更积极地学习，对生物医学研究更感兴趣， 更有可能在本科阶段攻读生物医学专业。这一建议意义重大，因为它将 利用UTEP的BUILDING SCHOLARS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.