RISE Option III - UTSA MBRS-RISE Research Training Program

描述(由申请者提供)：30多年来，NIGMS MBR项目一直活跃在UTSA校园，并在培训攻读博士学位的学生和发展学生研究基础设施方面发挥了重要作用。在这段时间里，UTSA已经成熟，研究教师数量、博士学位项目和校外资金都大幅增加，并制定了发展成为一级研究机构的目标。自2007年以来，UTSA已经毕业了287名为生物医学和行为科学服务的专业的博士生，其中62名是UR；19名是RISE实习生。与此同时，33名原瑞星本科生和硕士研究生进入博士生课程，20名往届实习生获得博士学位。本提案以活动和目标为特色，补充了UTSA战略计划和相关倡议的指令，特别是倡议1：丰富教育经验，使学生能够取得成功，其中包括代表性不足的本科生研究实习生的成功。UTSA RISE计划的长期目标仍然是在生物医学和行为科学领域培养特殊的代表性不足的研究人员。拟议计划的目标是增加对生物医学研究感兴趣的学生作为职业的渠道，加强现有的培训战略和活动，以促进学生进入 更高级的科学培训阶段，并扩大项目对UTSA校园和社区的影响。我们将通过追求三个具体目标来实现我们的目标：目标1-加强现有和实施新的外展和培训活动，以提高对生物医学/行为研究作为职业的认识，并促进升学前、博士研究生群体的发展；目标2-加强现有和实施新的活动，以发展RISE本科生和博士生，促进他们为下一阶段的研究教育做好准备；以及目标#3-发展活动，扩大获得研究的途径，并促进学生和教师在UTSA的研究技能。除了完善现有的活动外，我们还采用创新的机制来招聘和留住受训人员，并促进本科生研究文化的发展。建议干预的理由是，它们将促进UTSA和NIGMS的目标，即增加攻读博士学位和开始学术生涯的URM学生的数量。该计划可衡量的目标包括50%的本科入学，90%的博士生留住；每年新增两名人数不足的博士生进入博士后培训；80%的博士生将提交主要助学金并进入研究密集型机构进行博士后培训。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): For over 30 years, the NIGMS MBRS programs have been active on the UTSA campus and have been instrumental in training students who pursue doctoral training and developing student research infrastructure. Over this time, UTSA has matured, with dramatic increases in the number of research faculty, doctoral degree programs, and extramural funding and a goal of developing into a Tier 1 research institution. Since 2007 UTSA has graduated 287 doctoral students in majors that serve the biomedical and behavioral sciences, of whom 62 were UR; 19 of these were RISE trainees. At the same time, 33 former RISE undergraduate and master's students entered doctoral program and 20 trainees from prior years received their doctorates. The present proposal features activities and goals that complement directives of the UTSA Strategic Plan and associated initiatives, particularly Initiative #1: Enriching Educational Experiences to Enable Student Success, which encompasses the success of underrepresented undergraduate research trainees. The long- term goal of the UTSA RISE program continues to be the development of exceptional underrepresented researchers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The goals of the proposed program are to increase the pipeline of students interested in biomedical research as a career, enhance existing training strategies and activities to promote student matriculation into more advanced stages of scientific training, and broaden program impact on the UTSA campus and community. We will achieve our objectives by pursuing three specific aims: Aim #1 - Enhance existing and implement new outreach and training activities to promote awareness of biomedical/behavioral research as a career and the development of pre-RISE, pre-PhD undergraduate populations; Aim #2 - Enhance existing and implement new activities to develop RISE undergraduate and PhD trainees, to promote their preparedness for the next stage of their research education; and Aim #3 - Develop activities that broaden access to research and promote student and faculty research skills at UTSA. In addition to refining existing activities, w employ innovative mechanisms for RISE trainee recruitment and retention, as well as promote the development of an undergraduate research culture. The rationale for the proposed interventions is that they will promote UTSA and NIGMS goals of increasing the number of URM students who pursue doctorates and launch into academic careers. Program Measurable Objectives include 50% undergraduate matriculation, 90% doctoral trainee retention; two additional underrepresented students entering doctoral training annually; and 80% of PhD students will submit major grants and matriculate to postdoctoral training in research intensive institutions.