NIH awards Michigan grant to study research interventions, CIC SROP
Nov 3, 2009, 14:21 PM
The University of Michigan's National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID) has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study research opportunity interventions that promote scientific research careers for underrepresented students, including the CIC's Summer Research Opportunities Program....
The University of Michigan's
has been awarded a $1.4 million grant from the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) to study research opportunity interventions that promote
scientific research careers for underrepresented students, including
the CIC's Summer Research Opportunities Program.
The research project, 鈥淎 Mixed-Method Study of Exemplary Research
Opportunity Interventions,鈥� is led by Phillip J. Bowman, director of
the NCID. The CIC's Yolanda Zepeda, associate director of academic and international programs, is a member of the research team's national advisory board.
Funded
over four years by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences,
this study will clarify factors that threaten and promote successful
program outcomes among underrepresented students in two nationally
recognized interventions: the CIC's Summer Research Opportunity Program and the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program at the University of Michigan.
The need to further diversify biomedical and other scientific fields is
made urgent by the underrepresentation of talented African American and
Latina/o undergraduates who enter graduate study and choose related
research careers.
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