Delaware Consortium for Undergraduate Minority Training in Prostate Cancer
Abstract
In year 3, we recruited 5 more qualified undergraduate students from Lincoln University and Delaware State University (DSU) to participate in our prostate cancer research and health disparity training program. All students did 10 week, hands on research in laboratories at the University of Delaware (UD) capped by poster presentations in our annual undergraduate research symposium. Faculty from UD gave research talks on prostate cancer and health disparities at Lincoln and DSU during the semester. Research efforts through the school year at the HBCU were difficult to continue and required a commitment from the students to return to UD in order to continue. This is changing as more research laboratories come online at Lincoln and DSU but this is a very slow process. Overall, we have recruited 15 undergraduate minorities into our training program in compliance with our aims and 14 have finished. We have placed students in laboratories in Biology, Chemistry/Biochemistry and Physics at UD. The summer enrichment programs provided by HHMI and our own health disparity discussions are very popular. A large percentage of trainees applied to graduate schools.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- May 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- ADA511607
Entities
People
- David C. Usher
- Robert A. Sikes
Organizations
- University of Delaware