? OVERALL COMPONENT The University at Texas at El Paso (UTEP) proposes to continue to strengthen, maintain, institutionalize and/or disseminate BUILDing SCHOLARS (Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity: Southwest Consortium of Health-Oriented education Leaders and Research Scholars) partnerships and interventions developed in the phase I award period. The overall goal in phase II is to enhance institutional and faculty capacities to support, sustain, and disseminate innovative undergraduate research training and mentoring activities for students in the US Southwest region, the majority of whom come from underrepresented groups, and to contribute to the future diversification of the NIH funded workforce. The center aims to: (1) continue to strengthen, support, and maintain BUILD Research and Pipeline Institution partnerships; (2) continue to strengthen, support, maintain, and institutionalize all activities for student recruitment, research training and mentoring; (3) continue to strengthen, support, maintain, and institutionalize professional development activities for participating faculty; (4) continue the close collaboration between the BUILDing SCHOLARS site evaluation team and the Coordination and Evaluation Center (CEC); (5) ensure that institutional leaders/administrators keep their commitment to sustain successful and impactful BUILD interventions; and (6) develop and implement innovative strategies for the dissemination of results and the most successful and impactful BUILD interventions. A robust plan for institutionalization of the BUILDing SCHOLARS program and associated interventions will be implemented; leading to the long term sustainability of the program including support for undergraduate trainees on full scholarships every year after the funding period. The activities are innovative because of the trans-disciplinary emphasis, the focus on early interventions, the use of an assets bundling approach to overcoming educational and research training barriers, and the expansion of impacts through implementation of a research driven curriculum and a community of practice. These innovations are allowing the center to scale-up undergraduate research training and contribute directly to the diversification of the NIH- funded workforce. This proposal is significant because it takes a regional approach to sustaining a multi- institutional series of programs and activities that meet the needs of underrepresented groups concentrated in the US Southwest on their path to becoming biomedical researchers. Page 116 Project Summary/Abstract Contact PD/PI: Echegoyen, Lourdes

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? OVERALL COMPONENT The percentage of biomedical researchers from underrepresented groups who are awarded R01 grants is far below the corresponding percentage for majority groups. The proposed aims, objectives, and activities will strengthen, maintain, and institutionalize an advanced set of sustainable programs to transform the biomedical research training of students in the US Southwest, the majority of whom are underserved and underrepresented in the biomedical sciences, with the ultimate goal of improving their competitiveness for future R01 level support. Page 117 Project Narrative

Agency
National Institute of Health (NIH)
Institute
National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS)
Type
Linked Specialized Center Cooperative Agreement (UL1)
Project #
5UL1GM118970-07
Application #
9985878
Study Section
Special Emphasis Panel (ZGM1)
Program Officer
Brown, Anissa F
Project Start
2014-09-26
Project End
2024-06-30
Budget Start
2020-07-01
Budget End
2021-06-30
Support Year
7
Fiscal Year
2020
Total Cost
Indirect Cost
Name
University of Texas El Paso
Department
Type
DUNS #
132051285
City
El Paso
State
TX
Country
United States
Zip Code
79968
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