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IRACDA, Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award, is an NIH-sponsored program designed to provide three years of mentored, post-doctoral support in biomedical research in selected labs at UCSD and SDSU, and a mentored experience in teaching. | ||||
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The UCSD/SDSU program is the most recent IRACDA program funded, admitting it's first trainees in late 2003. The San Diego IRACDA program combines the research intensive faculty of UCSD with the research and teaching environment of a major minority-serving campus: SDSU, only 12 miles away. Research may be conducted at either institution. The teaching component, 3 lectures per semester, is carried out at SDSU. This intigration differs from that of many other IRACDA Programs (see Links), in which studnets conduct research for two years and then devote a year to teaching. The IRACDA program stems from an initiative in 1998 by NIGM to develop a training program that would combine a traditional mentored postdoctoral research experience with an experience to develop teaching skills through innovative programs that involve mentored assignments at a Minority Serving Institution (MSI - http://grants1.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-98-085.html). This combined program would facilitate the progress of postdoctoral candidates toward research and teaching careers in academia. An objective of the initiative would be to provide an important new resource to motivate the next generation of scientists at MSIs, thus enhancing linkages between faculty at MSI and their counterparts at research intensive institutions that can lead to further collaborations in research and teaching. Thus, the objectives of this initiative are three-fold: For more information, please view the Frequently Asked Questions. [Program Overview] [Directors] [Fellows] [Links] [Events] [Contact Info] [Mentors] [Frequently Asked Questions] |
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