To improve our overall academic environment, the MBRS program was initiated in 1985 to prepare UPRC students to become scientists. As part of this long term goal, we are proposing in this application to improve and expand our RISE program by concentrating on student skill development. These changes will be assessed and each component monitored by an external evaluator working with the activity coordinators, the program director, and the RISE Advisory Committee. The RISE program addresses three needs, 1-lack of awareness, 2-lack of research experience, and 3-limited English language skills, by offering three components: visiting scientists, hands-on research, and summer research. All components address the needs. Visiting scientists present seminars and workshops in English to improve student awareness of new techniques and discoveries, of new science careers, and to serve as role models. Hands-on faculty mentors offer semester long research experiences and workshops. Both activities are tailored to motivate and build the skills needed to be scientists. This component has on-campus and on-island mentors working with students during their first two years to counsel, to maintain their interests and focus their goals. During this two year period students will work with five different mentors learning the bases of experimental design and the associated techniques in molecular biology, cell biology, genetics, histology, etc. Finally, summer research allows sophomores, juniors and seniors to experience graduate school life by working for ten weeks with off-island scientists at research intensive institutions. Each component enables students and faculty to develop basic research skills by interacting with a different group of experts: 1) on-campus faculty mentors, 2) on-island research mentors located at selected affiliated institutions, 3) visiting scientists from off-island universities, and 4) scientists located in collaborating institutions. Each component challenges the students as they develop utilizing the appropriate environment and level of expertise to produce UPRC alumni who will be biomedical research scientists. Currently 32% of all MBRS graduates (n=226) are pursuing either a Ph.D. (n=46, %=20) or an M.S. degree (n=28, %=12).
| Santana, Juan A; Lopez-Dauphin, Nahyr A; Beiersdorfer, Peter (2018) RELATIVISTIC MR-MP ENERGY LEVELS FOR L-SHELL IONS OF SILICON. Astrophys J Suppl Ser 234: |
| Santana, Juan A; Lopez-Dauphin, Nahyr A; Morales Butler, Emmanuel J et al. (2018) RELATIVISTIC MR-MP ENERGY LEVELS FOR L-SHELL IONS OF SULFUR AND ARGON. Astrophys J Suppl Ser 238: |
| Claudio-Campos, Karla; Hernández-Rivera, Janibeth; Rivera-Gutierrez, Jaymie et al. (2015) Biological screening of select Puerto Rican plants for cytotoxic and antitumor activities. P R Health Sci J 34:25-30 |
| Zha, Xue-Qiang; Zhao, Hong-Wei; Bansal, Vibha et al. (2014) Immunoregulatory activities of Dendrobium huoshanense polysaccharides in mouse intestine, spleen and liver. Int J Biol Macromol 64:377-82 |
| Munoz, J L; Rodriguez-Cruz, V; Greco, S J et al. (2014) Temozolomide resistance in glioblastoma cells occurs partly through epidermal growth factor receptor-mediated induction of connexin 43. Cell Death Dis 5:e1145 |
| Munoz, Jessian L; Rodriguez-Cruz, Vivian; Greco, Steven J et al. (2014) Temozolomide induces the production of epidermal growth factor to regulate MDR1 expression in glioblastoma cells. Mol Cancer Ther 13:2399-411 |
| Shaffer, Christopher D; Alvarez, Consuelo J; Bednarski, April E et al. (2014) A course-based research experience: how benefits change with increased investment in instructional time. CBE Life Sci Educ 13:111-30 |
| Jordan, Tuajuanda C; Burnett, Sandra H; Carson, Susan et al. (2014) A broadly implementable research course in phage discovery and genomics for first-year undergraduate students. MBio 5:e01051-13 |
| Edds-Walton, Peggy L; Matos, Solymar Rivera; Fay, Richard R (2013) Does the magnocellular octaval nucleus process auditory information in the toadfish, Opsanus tau? J Comp Physiol A Neuroethol Sens Neural Behav Physiol 199:353-63 |
| DebRoy, Swati; Kribs-Zaleta, Christopher; Mubayi, Anuj et al. (2010) Evaluating treatment of hepatitis C for hemolytic anemia management. Math Biosci 225:141-55 |
Showing the most recent 10 out of 11 publications
