Goals

Goal: To further enhance PVAMU students’ preparation in STEM for matriculation into competitive STEM PhD programs.

Specific Objectives

Establish an enriched interdisciplinary research culture that engages CUSP fellows (Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics majors) at PVAMU in research during the academic year and in summer internships.
Create a nurturing learning community by engaging CUSP fellows in a multidimensional mentoring program.
Engage students in courses that emphasize the research process.

Provide scholarship, professional training and mentorship to UR students who are on the graduate school pathway.
Establish and/or strengthen partnerships between PVAMU and PhD-granting institutions that will provide a sustainable STEM pipeline infrastructure.
Contribute to an increase in the number of UR STEM students who matriculate into a STEM PhD program and obtain a STEM PhD.
Build of a replicable, transportable, evidence-based model that promotes preparation of students from UR populations for STEM research careers.

Goal: To enhance student participation and preparation in the biomedical sciences for matriculation into highly competitive biomedical PhD programs and ultimately, a biomedical research career.

Provide an enriched interdisciplinary biomedical research culture that exposes all U-RISE at PVAMU trainees to research for three consecutive years.
Enhance the academic curriculum that promotes advancement of U-RISE at PVAMU trainees to a biomedical science graduate program.
Create a nurturing learning community by engaging U-RISE at PVAMU trainees in a multidimensional mentoring program.