ESTEEMED Honors Research Training at UTSA

美国需要一支强大的、多样化的博士级别的科学家和工程师队伍来应对新出现的挑战 在医疗保健方面。UTSA尊贵计划的长期目标是培养一批特殊的 少数民族、弱势或残疾新生，目前在生物科学领域的代表性不足(UR)，以 培养成为科学家和领导者，迎接这些新出现的挑战。UTSA是一名优秀的招聘人员 并为这些未来的科学家提供培训场所，拥有大量的UR人口和高性能的实验室 高质量的生物医学研究和拥抱本科生(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*STAR荣誉研究培训计划，自1980年以来一直活跃，受尊敬的 实习生可以在成为大三学生后过渡。建议的受人尊敬的计划需要7个培训 第一年和之后的14个职位，以维持一年级和二年级受训人员的均衡数量。 受训人员将从生物、化学、物理、心理学、 和生物医学工程。我们假设我们可以将这些即将入学的大学新生转变为未来的学生 通过实现以下具体目标成为世界一流的科学家：#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指导学员关于职业选择和多样化 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问题 UR人群中获得UG和博士学位的障碍。为实现这些目标而设计的许多活动 AIMS将在一年级前的桥梁计划中引入，该计划将延伸到新生的所有学期 和二年级，包括两个连续暑期的全日制暑期研究项目，一个是在 UTSA和NEXT在国家排名的大学或医疗中心。受训人员将面临以下挑战 不断刺激他们的个人和职业成长。例如，他们沉浸在研究中将会取得进展 从实验室访问，到轮换，到在UTSA进行研究，再到在一个新城市的不同机构进行研究。成功之路 将以GPA成绩；研究报告和出版物；录取 Marc；学位完成；进入博士培训；以及长期职业发展 定性地报告了自信或融入科学文化的增加。独特的计划功能包括 UTSA支持的“额外”暑期计划，以及提前完成MARC第一学期的培训 今年暑期计划，以更好地协调受人尊敬的和MARC的训练序列。此外，患有抑郁症 在研究生群体中猖獗，受人尊敬的学员将完成生物反馈培训以提高 他们对压力的抵抗力。项目结果将包括：至少95%的学员将完成他们的学位， 50%的学生将攻读MARC，75%的MARC预科学生将攻读博士学位；所有二年级学生将 参加了几次地方会议和一次全国会议，40%的人将在毕业时获得作者资格。计划 成功将为在校园内纳入更多的新生干预措施提供证据。

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.