This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) aims to develop and test interventions to promote diverse students' success in biomedical engineering (BME) academic and career pathways. The $748,930 award to Texas A&M University, a Hispanic-Serving Institution, will implement a 2-year longitudinal study involving 360 first-year BME students, including 108 from historically...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859), is funding a $2,639,070 research intervention study at the University of Pittsburgh. The study aims to develop and test a structured cognitive behavioral training (SCBT) intervention to address systemic inequities and promote inclusive excellence in the biomedical research workforce. The project will follow participants for...
The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) awarded a $404,214 Cooperative Agreement to the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859). This five-year project aims to provide professional development support, mentoring, and resilience training to five cohorts of diverse postdoctoral and early-career faculty researchers in the biological and biomedical sciences. The key products and...
This Project Grant award, provided by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, is funding a $1,475,726 research study titled "ADEPT: ASSESSING DIVERSITY EFFECTS POST AFFIRMATIVE ACTION RESTRICTIONS IN MEDICAL SCHOOLS." The study aims to determine the impact of the recent Supreme Court restrictions on affirmative action in higher education on the racial and ethnic...
This two-year, $599,255 project grant from the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA 47.076) will fund research exploring career trajectories and outcomes of marginalized groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) doctoral programs. The principal investigators at the National Opinion Research Center will employ mixed methods to analyze survey data from current and recent doctoral students at three North Carolina institutions. The project aims to...
This $599,868 National Science Foundation award under the STEM Education Postdoctoral Research Fellowship program will support research and training to create more inclusive undergraduate research experiences for low socioeconomic students in life sciences. Over a two-year period from September 2022 through August 2024, the awardee Arizona State University will conduct interviews and a nationwide survey to identify factors impacting low-SES student researchers. This research aims to understand...
The National Science Foundation Office of Integrative Activities awarded a $399,584 Project Grant to the University of Washington to enhance the diversity and retention of underrepresented groups in the academic geoscience field and the broader geoscience workforce. The three-year grant, which began on October 1, 2023, will pilot and test the effectiveness of an active learning program where graduate students in the geosciences receive training in evidence-based mentoring practices and are...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) under the Biomedical Research and Research Training program (CFDA 93.859) will study the effects of interventions to promote productive failure responses and STEM persistence among college students, particularly those from historically excluded communities. The $388,750 award, effective from September 1, 2024 to July 31, 2029, will fund two experiments: 1) testing the impact of videos about personal and...
This $1,601,966 Project Grant, awarded by the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) under the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research (CFDA 93.307) program, supports research to identify factors that increase bias among healthcare providers, which can contribute to healthcare disparities for racial and ethnic minority patients. The research will leverage psychological theories to examine how adverse provider conditions, such as workplace demands, personal...
This Project Grant award from the National Institute on Aging (CFDA 93.866 - Aging Research) provides $162,000.00 to the University of South Carolina to develop and implement an equity-driven research training program. The program aims to build capacity and expertise in integrating community engagement, health communication, and implementation science research to advance the science on Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) disparities and outcomes, particularly among...
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND MENTORSHIP AS CRITICAL INTERVENTIONS TO ADVANCE DIVERSITY IN BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE - DIVERSIFYING THE BIOMEDICAL WORKFORCE IS IMPERATIVE TO MEET THE HEALTHCARE NEEDS OF THE U.S. POPULATION. IT IS A LONG JOURNEY FROM BEING AN UNDERGRADUATE SCIENCE MAJOR TO BECOMING A SCIENTIFIC RESEARCHER, OFTEN MORE SO FOR STUDENTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS. SOME STUDENTS PERSIST, YET THE MAJORITY LEAVE THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CAREER PATH, EITHER NEVER MAKING IT TO GRADUATE SCHOOL OR FAILING TO MAKE THE TRANSITION TO BECOMING AN INDEPENDENT SCIENTIST. WE WILL BUILD ON OUR ESTABLISHED LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH TO TEST THE LONG-TERM EFFECTIVENESS OF TWO WIDELY UTILIZED INTERVENTIONS: UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (URE) AND FACULTY MENTORSHIP. BETWEEN 2005-2017, OUR RESEARCH TEAM CONDUCTED AN NIH- FUNDED LONGITUDINAL STUDY TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF FORMAL INTERVENTIONS IN RETAINING STUDENTS FROM UNDERREPRESENTED GROUPS IN BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH (THESCIENCESTUDY; R01GM075316). THE RESULTS SERVED TO HIGHLIGHT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF SOME INTERVENTIONS AND THE CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH OTHERS. WE HAVE 12 YEARS OF DATA ON 1,243 BLACK AND HISPANIC FORMER SCIENCE STUDENTS. THEY ARE NOW COMPLETING THEIR TRAINING (78% RECEIVED A B.S., 32% AN M.S., AND 19% A DOCTORAL DEGREE), AND WE HAVE SEMESTER-BY- SEMESTER DATA ON URE AND FACULTY MENTORSHIP DURATION, INTENSITY, QUALITY, AND SATISFACTION. PROPENSITY SCORES WILL PROVIDE A BALANCED COMPARISON GROUP AGAINST WHICH TO TEST THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THESE INTERVENTIONS, WITH FOLLOW-UP ANALYSES FOCUSED ON DOSAGE EFFECTS. USING THE BALANCED IDENTITY DESIGN THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK, WE WILL COLLECT FIVE YEARS OF PROSPECTIVE DATA TO ANSWER CRITICAL QUESTIONS. SPECIFICALLY, WE WILL QUANTIFY THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF URES ON BIOMEDICAL CAREER HALLMARKS OF SUCCESS (E.G., WORKFORCE ENTRY, ADVANCEMENT, SCHOLARLY PRODUCTIVITY), LIFE SATISFACTION, AND WELL-BEING. ALSO, WHAT ASPECTS OF THE UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH EXPERIENCE (I.E., EXPOSURE, DOSAGE, QUALITY) HAVE IMPACTED THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TRAINING THE NEXT GENERATION OF BIOMEDICAL RESEARCHERS? FINALLY, WE WILL ASSESS THE LONG-TERM IMPACT OF UNDERGRADUATE MENTORSHIP NETWORKS (E.G., QUALITY OF SUPPORT, NETWORK DIVERSITY) ON FUTURE BIOMEDICAL CAREER HALLMARKS OF SUCCESS, LIFE SATISFACTION, AND WELL-BEING SPECIFICALLY, WHICH FACETS OF MENTORSHIP NETWORKS (I.E., PRESENCE, QUANTITY, QUALITY) HAVE HAD THE MOST SIGNIFICANT IMPACT. FINALLY, WE WILL ASSESS THE MEDIATING ROLE OF SCIENCE AND SCIENCE IDENTITY BALANCE ON THE EFFECTIVENESS OF URES AND MENTORSHIP ON THE SUCCESS OF BLACK AND HISPANIC EARLY AND MID-CAREER BIOMEDICAL SCIENTISTS. THE PROPOSED RESEARCH HAS DIRECT IMPLICATIONS FOR TRAINING PROGRAMS AND INTERVENTIONS. OUR SPECIFIC AIMS TEST THE DIRECT IMPACT OF TWO WIDELY IMPLEMENTED INTERVENTIONS - RESEARCH EXPERIENCE AND MENTORSHIP - AS WELL AS THE BOUNDARY CONDITIONS SURROUNDING THESE INTERVENTIONS ON EARLY AND MID- CAREER PERSISTENCE AND SUCCESS AMONG UNDERREPRESENTED SCIENCE STUDENTS.