Short Term Training for Minority Students

描述（由申请人提供）：这个r25提案，题为“少数民族短期培训计划”，将把范德比尔特大学和梅哈里医学院在血管生物学方面的多部门和机构研究的巨大优势和多样性集中到一个连贯的框架中，以引入研究设计和方法。为10名本科生提供奖学金。本科生将从全国各地和R25倡议中描述的个人群体中招募。我们将尽一切努力让这些学生连续两个暑假参加这个项目。虽然培训计划将主要侧重于研究，但学生将有机会参加为期三周的研究导论课程，在那里他们将获得研究的基本技能，这些技能可以应用于他们自己的暑期工作，以及为期十周的分子生物学、遗传学和生物化学的概念和机制课程，这将有助于他们为未来的研究生工作做好准备；关于研究机会（职业）的讲习班；研究伦理问题讲习班；参加GRE备考课程，参加由教师导师举办的系列研讨会。在夏季结束时，学生们将向其他学生和教师口头展示他们的工作，非常像在全国会议上发表的演讲风格。这将伴随着他们的夏季研究活动的简短书面报告，在期刊文章的风格。这项培训旨在为学生在研究生院取得成功所需要和期望的东西做好准备，增加他们对血管生物学研究的兴趣，并向他们介绍研究技术、方法和职业选择。培训设施包括范德比尔特大学9栋相邻建筑中的9个系，以及梅哈里医学院的生物医学科学部，包括癌症生物学、药理学、微生物学和免疫学以及神经科学。该提案的两个主要目标是：(1)提供一种环境，鼓励学生选择科学研究的职业；(2)帮助增加血管生物学研究人员的多样性，无论是在学术机构还是在私营部门的研究机会。这些成功的个人反过来又会成为未来对研究事业感兴趣的学生的榜样。另一个重要目标是为未来的科学家提供多学科研究培训，这对于发现新的信息至关重要，这些信息将导致改进心血管疾病的诊断、预防和治疗。本提案的目标是为来自心血管研究中代表性不足的人群的本科生提供培训，并影响他们对血管生物学的职业选择。这项研究将促进我们对血管疾病的理解，最终有益于公众健康。（摘要结束）

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This R25-proposal, entitled Short Term Training Program for Minorities, will focus the considerable strengths and diversity of multi-departmental and institutional research dealing with vascular biology at Vanderbilt University and Meharry Medical College into a coherent framework for introducing research design and methods. Stipends for 10 undergraduate students will be available. The undergraduate students will be recruited from across the country and from those groups of individuals described in the R25 initiative. Every effort will be made to have these students participate in the program for two consecutive summers. While the training program will focus primarily on research, the students will be offered the opportunity to attend a three week course on Introduction to Research, where they will obtain basic skills in research that can be applied to their own summer work and a ten week course on Concepts and Mechanisms in Molecular Biology, Genetics, and Biochemistry which will help prepare them for future graduate work; a workshop on opportunities (careers) in research; a workshop on Ethics in Research; a GRE preparation course, and attendance and participation in a seminar series presented by the faculty preceptors. At the end of the summer, the students will present orally their work to the other students and the faculty, very much in the style of talks given at national meetings. This will be accompanied by a short written report of their summer research activities, in the style of a journal article. This training is intended to prepare the students for what is needed and expected to succeed in graduate school, to increase their interest in vascular biology research, and to introduce them to research - techniques, methodologies and career options. Training facilities include 9 departments in 9 adjacent buildings at Vanderbilt and the Division of Biomedical Sciences, including Cancer Biology, Pharmacology, Microbiology and Immunology, and Neuroscience, at Meharry Medical College. Two of the major goals of this proposal are (1) to provide the type of environment that will encourage students to choose a career of scientific investigation, and (2) to help increase the diversity of those working in vascular biology research, whether it be at academic institutions or at research opportunities in the private sector. Those successful individuals, will, in turn, act as role models for future students interested in research careers. Another important goal is to provide multidisciplinary research training for future scientists which will be critical to discovering new information that will lead to improved diagnosis, prevention and therapy for cardiovascular diseases. The goals of this proposal are to provide training to undergraduate students from populations under- represented in cardiovascular research, and to influence their career choices toward one in vascular biology. This research will advance our understanding of vascular diseases, ultimately benefiting public health. (End of Abstract)