With a foundation of Critical Race Theory:
Students and faculty mentors
- Research skills-building
- Professional development
- Support for mutual research supplies
- Support for mutual travel to present research findings
- Community-building and interdisciplinary collaboration
Students
- Summer JumpStart Program to introduce research to new students
- Mentored research lab experience
- Advanced research methods courses
- Professional development courses
- Regular, all-student meetings
- Summer research programs and support
Faculty mentors
- Mentor training in cultural humility
- Pilot projects to support independent research proposals
- Research skills workshops
- Faculty Scholar Academy grant-writing support
- NEW Writing groups and coaching
- NEW Reading groups for professional growth
- Research Hubs/Affinity Groups
- Faculty Scholar Academy grant-writing support
- NEW Post doctoral Fellows
Building infrastructure
- NEW building: Lilac Hall, half for BUILD PODER (5000 square feet)
- NEW (forming) Health Equity Research and Education (HERE) Center
- NEW cluster hires: Lilac Hall space for offices and laboratories for 4 cluster hired faculty and our newly forming HERE Center
- NEW Faculty App: Scholarship is being designed to connect faculty and students in an intranet
- Curriculum changes
- New courses in advanced research methods (Biology, Physics)
- New courses in race/ethnicity and health equity (Asian American Studies, Chicanx Studies)
- NEW course in Public Health for Social Justice
- NEW minor in biomedical engineering
- Continuing (3 years+) program with BUILD PODER seniors and middle school students – inspiring and role modeling science career preparation
