Initiative for Minority Student Development at UNC-Chapel Hill

描述（申请人提供）：查佩尔山的北卡罗来纳州大学少数民族学生发展倡议（IMSD）项目的更新将继续有助于促进该大学努力增加代表性不足的少数民族（URM）的参与生物医学和行为研究的学生，以提高他们作为未来研究生和完成博士学位的个人的竞争力程序.公共卫生将突出表现在学生进行行为科学研究。事实上，通过IMSD支持的一些研究生来自公共卫生学院。UNC-CH IMSD计划将继续刺激和促进URM本科生参与生物医学和行为研究，与学术部门合作，增加URM博士学位的数量。学生，并为少数民族医学和牙科学生提供更多的机会，参与基础生物医学研究。该研究将与生物医学，公共卫生和临床科学社区相关。但继续计划的一个主要推动力将是与跨学科生物医学科学计划（IBMS）的合作安排，并与T32项目的PI/项目主任合作，以广泛增加URM博士的数量。学生此外，通过IMSD的支持，IBMS计划将建立一个过渡性的硕士课程，将招收学生的承诺，但谁需要额外的研究经验，然后才开始在IBMS博士。该计划允许学生在一年后选择特定的学术部门。IMSD计划的基础是UNC-CH强大的研究活动及其在增强和促进学生群体多样性方面的努力。研究培训和指导概念是IMSD计划的基石。在稳定状态和所有组成部分，该计划将每年为40多名学生提供研究补偿。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The renewal of the Initiative for Minority Student Development (IMSD) program at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) will continue to help facilitate the university's effort to increase the involvement of underrepresented minority (URM) students in biomedical and behavioral research to enhance their competitiveness as prospective graduate students and as individuals completing their doctoral programs. Public Health will be prominently represented among students conducting behavioral science research. Indeed, a number of graduate students supported via IMSD have been from the UNC School of Public Health. The UNC-CH IMSD program will continue to stimulate and facilitate the involvement of URM undergraduate students in biomedical and behavioral research, work with academic departments to increase the number of URM Ph.D. students, and provide enhanced opportunities for minority medical and dental students to be involved in basic biomedical research. The research will be relevant to the biomedical, public health, and clinical science communities. But a major thrust of the continued program will be the collaborative arrangement with the Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences Program (IBMS) and working collaboratively with PI/program directors of T32 projects to broadly increase the number of URM Ph.D. students. Additionally, through IMSD support, the IBMS program will establish a transitional master's program that will enroll students with promise but who need additional research experiences before embarking on the IBMS Ph.D. program, which allows students to select specific academic departments after one year. A foundation of the IMSD program is the strength of UNC-CH's strong research activities and its efforts in enhancing and promoting diversity among its student body. Research training and the mentoring concept are the cornerstones of the IMSD program. At steady state and across all components, the program will provide research compensation for more than 40 students annually.