Abstract

The Minority Student Development (MSD) Program will assist UNC-CH in enrolling and supporting increased numbers of students from underrepresented minority groups. The cornerstone of MSD at UNC-CH will be mentoring and will consist of multiple components involving UNC-CH undergraduate, graduate, medical, and dental students. Moreover, undergraduates from other schools will be involved via a summer research program to form a pipeline to UNC-CH graduate programs (and to other graduate programs as well). The program will build on the strengths of UNC-CH's strong research activities and its efforts in enhancing and promoting diversity among its graduate and professional student body. The program will also allow minority medical and dental students to spend summers and a full year gaining research experiences and establishing a foundation upon which they can build research and academic careers. At steady state, the program will provide annual support for at least 58 students (including MSD graduate assistants) across all components. Through MSD, UNC-CH will strengthen and expand current programs, and will develop additional programs to enhance the research competitiveness of underrepresented minority students at the undergraduate, graduate, and medical/dental school level to facilitate their careers in biomedical research.

  Funding Agency

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Education Projects (R25)
Project #
3R25GM055336-03S1
Application #
6053883
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZGM1)
Project Start
1996-09-30
Project End
2001-02-28
Budget Start
1999-03-01
Budget End
2001-02-28
Support Year
3
Fiscal Year
1999
Total Cost
Indirect Cost

  Institution

Name
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
Department
Type
Other Domestic Higher Education
DUNS #
078861598
City
Chapel Hill
State
NC
Country
United States
Zip Code
27599

  Publications

Palacios, Michelle; Miner, Taryn A; Frederick, Daniel R et al. (2018) Identification of Two Regulators of Virulence That Are Conserved in Klebsiella pneumoniae Classical and Hypervirulent Strains. MBio 9:
Jha, Shaili C; Xia, Kai; Schmitt, James Eric et al. (2018) Genetic influences on neonatal cortical thickness and surface area. Hum Brain Mapp 39:4998-5013
Anjuwon-Foster, Brandon R; Maldonado-Vazquez, Natalia; Tamayo, Rita (2018) Characterization of Flagellum and Toxin Phase Variation in Clostridioides difficile Ribotype 012 Isolates. J Bacteriol 200:
Bonello, Teresa T; Perez-Vale, Kia Z; Sumigray, Kaelyn D et al. (2018) Rap1 acts via multiple mechanisms to position Canoe and adherens junctions and mediate apical-basal polarity establishment. Development 145:
Peck, Bailey C E; Mah, Amanda T; Pitman, Wendy A et al. (2017) Functional Transcriptomics in Diverse Intestinal Epithelial Cell Types Reveals Robust MicroRNA Sensitivity in Intestinal Stem Cells to Microbial Status. J Biol Chem 292:2586-2600
Palacios, Michelle; Broberg, Christopher A; Walker, Kimberly A et al. (2017) A Serendipitous Mutation Reveals the Severe Virulence Defect of a Klebsiella pneumoniae fepB Mutant. mSphere 2:
Bailey, Sean T; Smith, Aleisha M; Kardos, Jordan et al. (2017) MYC activation cooperates with Vhl and Ink4a/Arf loss to induce clear cell renal cell carcinoma. Nat Commun 8:15770
Romero, Noelle-Erin; Matson, Steven W; Sekelsky, Jeff (2016) Biochemical Activities and Genetic Functions of the Drosophila melanogaster Fancm Helicase in DNA Repair. Genetics 204:531-541
Peck, Bailey C E; Sincavage, John; Feinstein, Sydney et al. (2016) miR-30 Family Controls Proliferation and Differentiation of Intestinal Epithelial Cell Models by Directing a Broad Gene Expression Program That Includes SOX9 and the Ubiquitin Ligase Pathway. J Biol Chem 291:15975-84
Norona, Leah M; Nguyen, Deborah G; Gerber, David A et al. (2016) Editor's Highlight: Modeling Compound-Induced Fibrogenesis In Vitro Using Three-Dimensional Bioprinted Human Liver Tissues. Toxicol Sci 154:354-367

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