Medgar Evers College Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement

描述（由申请人提供）：纽约城市大学的Medgar Evers学院（MEC）成立的目的是作为一个锚点，为布鲁克林中部的居民提供高质量、负担得起的高等教育，这些居民经常面临着共同的城市挑战：高贫困率、犯罪率和失业率，K-12公立学校的挣扎，以及资源的缺乏。在该学院的7000名攻读学位的学生中，98%来自在科学领域代表性不足的群体，而且几乎所有学生都是自己家庭的第一代大学生。MEC已经开始与位于2英里内的纽约州立大学下州医疗中心校园进行创新和实质性的机构合作。拟议的MBRS RISE计划旨在通过促进学生在科学学科中追求最高水平的学术和专业成就的能力，同时建立MEC长期的研究和培训能力，来利用这种机构合作。这项MEC MBRS RISE计划将加强整体机构研究文化，特别是MEC本科生的研究培训，从而增加攻读生物医学科学博士学位的学生人数。该计划将提供指导研究经验，并每年支持16名MEC本科生，预期结果是至少75%的参与者进入生物医学科学博士学习，完成率至少为80%。MEC RISE学生将从至少35名合格学生的初始申请者池中选出，这些学生将从潜在的申请者池中脱颖而出，这些申请者的GPA最低为2.8，并且从面试和学生互动中收集到强烈的研究职业兴趣。短期内，每位参与者将在纽约州立大学下州医学中心的实验室中与一名研究导师（首席研究员）进行一学年的实习，长期目标是扩大在MEC生产实验室的实习机会。由至少20名MEC RISE成员组成的队列将使RISE学者参与MEC RISE的所有活动，但他们不会获得学年研究培训的直接工资支持。RISE员工的研究培训将集中在T32资助机构的夏季研究机会，以及由会议旅行奖资助的科学会议旅行。参与者将参加1-3个区域/国家科学会议，要求他们向至少一个会议提交海报/演讲。该计划将提供一个增强的课程，旨在通过提供强制性的发展研讨会/课程，为MEC RISE学生进入有竞争力的生物医学科学研究生（博士和医学博士/博士）课程做好准备；利用MEC RISE计划，每年举办一次校园研讨会，展示MEC学生的研究成果，加强MEC的机构研究文化。该项目将利用与纽约州立大学下州医学中心的机构关系，作为近期MEC RISE学生研究培训的基础，以发展机构间的教师研究合作。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Medgar Evers College (MEC) of the City University of New York was established to serve as an anchor and provide quality, affordable higher education to Central Brooklyn residents, who often face common urban challenges: high poverty, crime, and unemployment, struggling K-12 public schools, and a dearth of resources. Ninety-eight percent of the college's 7,000 degree-seeking students come from populations that are underrepresented in the sciences and almost all represent the first generation attending college from their families. MEC has embarked on an innovative and substantial institutional collaboration with The State University of New York Downstate Medical Center campus located within 2 miles. The proposed MBRS RISE program is designed to leverage this institutional collaboration by facilitating students' ability to pursue the highest levels of academic and professional achievement in scientific disciplines while building MEC longer- term research and training capacity. This MEC MBRS RISE program will enhance the general institutional research culture and in particular, research training among MEC undergraduates, resulting in increases in the number of students pursuing doctoral study in the biomedical sciences. The program will provide mentored research experiences and support 16 MEC undergraduates per year with the expected outcome of at least 75% of participants advancing to doctoral study in the biomedical sciences with a completion rate of at least 80%. MEC RISE students will be selected from an initial applicant pool of at least 35 qualified student applicants, emanating from a potential applicant pool of >400 based on minimum 2.8 GPA and strong research career interest gleaned from interviews and student interaction. Each participant will be placed in an academic year internship with a research mentor (principal investigator) in laboratories in the near term at SUNY Downstate Medical Center, with the longer-term objective of expanding placement opportunities to productive laboratories at MEC. A cohort of at least 20 MEC RISE Associates will parallel RISE Scholars participation in all MEC RISE activities, except that they will not receive direct salary support for academic year research training. Research training for RISE Associates will be focused on summer research opportunities at T32 granted institutions and travel to scientific meetings underwritten by meeting based travel awards. Participants will attend 1-3 to regional/national scientific meetings, requiring them to submit posters/presentations to at least one meeting. The program will provide an enhanced curriculum aimed at preparing MEC RISE students for admission into competitive graduate (PhD and MD/PhD) programs in the biomedical sciences by offering mandatory developmental workshops/courses; enhance the institutional research culture at MEC through leveraging the MEC RISE program by hosting an annual on-campus symposium to demonstrate student research achievement at MEC. This program will leverage the institutional relationship with SUNY Downstate Medical Center that serves as the foundation for near-term MEC RISE student research training to develop inter institutional faculty research collaborations.