MIDARP at Hunter College

描述（由申请人提供）：亨特学院是一所历史悠久的城市大学，具有教育历史上受到高等教育限制的人口的历史。几十年来，亨特学院60%以上的本科生都是得不到充分服务的学生，目前我们的学生中约有75%是女性。多年来，我们一直致力于教育我们独特的学生群体，通过纽约市立大学研究生中心提供全方位的学术课程，从本科课程到博士论文研究。此外，心理学系有一批核心研究人员专注于药物滥用。NIDA认识到我们的教学和科学潜力，并于1999年授予亨特MIDARP资助。该基金的目标是发展已经参与药物滥用研究的初级教员的职业生涯，让一名首次参与药物滥用研究的高级教员参与，让本科生和研究生参与药物滥用研究，并改善学院的研究基础设施。所有的目标都达到并超过了目标。两位青年教师都是少数民族学者，他们已经发展了自己的研究项目，并正在成为各自领域公认的专家；我们的高级特聘教授现在深入参与药物滥用研究，并担任NIDA的顾问。本科生和研究生进入一流的博士项目，并在著名实验室获得博士后奖学金。我们已经改善了设施，获得了主要设备拨款，并正在扩大和更新我们的动物设施。这份更新申请提议将MIDARP项目推进到下一个阶段：为我们的MIDARP教师获得独立的NIH资助，包括新的教师，他们的兴趣领域包括生物行为和社会心理研究，使我们能够扩大我们在学生指导方面的成功，包括新的学生骨干，并继续努力改善研究基础设施和宣传药物滥用研究。我们有一位经验丰富、资金充足、成功的项目总监，他有丰富的指导经验，完全致力于MIDARP的目标，并为实现这些目标制定了深思熟虑的计划。我们提出了准备NIH R01申请的机制，评估初级教师的新项目，招募新生，包括大学学者，他们是参加新的纽约市立大学荣誉项目的本科生，准备这些学生在全国最好的博士项目中具有很强的竞争力，并继续获得资金来改善我们的基础设施。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Hunter College is a long existing urban university with a history of educating populations whose access to higher education has been historically limited. For decades, over 60% of Hunter College undergraduates have been underserved students and currently about 75% of our students are women. Throughout the years, we have demonstrated a strong commitment to educate our unique population of students, with a full range of academic programs, from undergraduate classes to doctoral dissertation research through the CUNY's Graduate Center. Moreover, the Department of Psychology has a core of researchers focused on drugs of abuse. NIDA recognized our didactic and scientific potential and awarded a MIDARP grant to Hunter in 1999. The goals of that grant were to develop the careers of junior faculty already involved in drug abuse research, engage a senior faculty member for the first time in drug abuse research, involve undergraduate and graduate students in drug abuse research, and improve the research infrastructure at the College. All goals were met and exceeded. The two junior faculty, both minority scholars, have developed their research programs and are becoming recognized as experts in their fields; our senior Distinguished Professor is now deeply involved in drug abuse research and has served as a consultant to NIDA. Undergraduate and graduate students have moved into top-notch Ph.D. programs and to postdoctoral fellowships in distinguished laboratories. We have improved facilities, obtained major equipment grants, and are in the process of expanding and updating our animal facility. This renewal application proposes to move the MIDARP program to the next stage: obtain independent NIH funding for our MIDARP faculty, include new faculty whose areas of interest include biobehavioral and psychosocial research allowing us to expand our success with student mentoring to include new cadres of students, and continue our efforts to improve research infrastructure and publicize drug abuse research. We do so with a highly experienced, well-funded, and successful Program Director who has substantial mentoring experience and is committed fully to the goals of MIDARP, and with well thought out plans for achieving these goals. We propose mechanisms for preparing NIH R01 applications, evaluating new projects from junior faculty, recruiting new students, including University Scholars who are undergraduates enrolled in the new CUNY Honors program, preparing those students to be highly competitive for the best Ph.D. programs in the Country, and continuing to obtain funding to improve our infrastructure.