WINS: Winning Institutional Nomination System

National Institutes of Health

NIH: Bridges to the Baccalaureate Program (R25)

Program Summary

The purpose of this funding opportunity is to increase the number of students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral research enterprise of the nation and/or populations disproportionately affected by health disparities (hereafter referred to as targeted groups/populations) who successfully complete the baccalaureate degree in biomedical and behavioral sciences. This initiative promotes inter-institutional partnerships between community colleges or other two-year post-secondary educational institutions granting the associate degree and colleges or universities that offer the baccalaureate degree with the goal of developing well-integrated developmental activities that will increase students preparation and skills as they advance academically in the pursuit of the baccalaureate and subsequently more advanced degrees in biomedical and behavioral sciences.

Eligibility

The Principal Investigator, referred to as the Program Director (PD), should be a full-time faculty (i.e., not adjunct, part-time, retired, or emeritus) with research, teaching, student counseling and/or academic administrative experience and an interest in promoting biomedical and behavioral science education among students from targeted groups/populations.

Student Participants: Research education programs developed under this initiative must target students from groups underrepresented in the biomedical and behavioral research enterprise of the nation and/or populations disproportionately affected by health disparities (targeted groups/populations).  Bridges students are those students who will receive support in the form of salaries/wages under this program. These students must be a U.S. citizen or non-citizen national or permanent resident and must be matriculated full-time in associate degree programs in biomedical or behavioral science fields at the partner community college. 

Applicants are required to include a plan for Training in the Responsible Conduct of Research, an evaluation plan, and partnership/consortium agreements (see Section IV.6.5).  Applications submitted without these sections may be delayed in the review process or not reviewed.

Internal Selection Process

• a cover sheet with the project title, your name, department, and campus address, and the title of the program you are responding to.
• a description of the proposed project (no more than the sponsor identified limit of 25 pages in length).  Additional pages may be added for references. 
• Please be sure the project is identified on each page and number the pages.

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