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Families for STEM Success: Mentoring LatinX Parents to Mentor and Support their STEM Students

Award Number: U01GM138437
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2020
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2023

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Families for STEM Success: Mentoring LatinX Parents to Mentor and Support their STEM Students - Biomedical discoveries and public health clearly benefit from a diverse biomedical workforce. Latinx parents are a largely untapped, and potentially powerful, resource for decreasing Latinx student flight from the biomedical science career path. Behavioral science research has firmly established that developing an identity as a scientist is a strong predictor of persistence on the scientific research career path, yet little is known about how Latinx science majors balance their scientific and ethnic identities and how parental support, and mentorship could foster identity balance. The long-term research goal is to understand the impact of balancing science and ethnic identities on attrition from the biomedical science career pipeline, and to test the utility of an intervention designed to foster identity balance. The proposed research employs a quasi- experimental, matched control, longitudinal design, to measure the impact of an intervention program with parents of two cohorts (2020-2021 and 2021-2022) incoming Latinx biomedical science majors. The specific aims are: 1) to measure the immediate impact of the workshop on LatinX parents’ knowledge of and attitudes about science, the value of a science degree, and the compatibility between scientific research and Latinx heritage. 2) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on the short and long-term academic persistence and success of Latinx biomedical science students. 3) to measure the impact of the parental intervention on students’ science identity across time, and the balance between their science and Latinx identities, and 4) to assess the degree to which the effects of the parental intervention on short and longer-term academic outcomes are mediated through scientific-Latinx identity balance. An early intervention with parents has the potential to alter students’ social context to support identity balance. This project is significant because it will provide a theory-driven rigorous empirical understanding how parental education and support can help Latinx biomedical science students achieve academically and balance a strong Latinx identity with an emerging science identity. This parent intervention programs could significantly increase the pool of qualified Latinx doctoral program applicants in less than a decade.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = -$117,498 )
2024	2022	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORP	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	3	6/12/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
2024	2022	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORP	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	001	3	7/9/2024	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	-$117,498
														Subtotal = -$117,498

Issue Date FY: 2022 ( Subtotal = $505,157 )
2022	2022	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	3	8/31/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$235,105
2022	2022	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	002	3	9/16/2022	SUPPLEMENT FOR EXPANSION	$270,052
2022	2021	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	2	4/14/2022	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$0
														Subtotal = $505,157

Issue Date FY: 2021 ( Subtotal = $332,611 )
2021	2021	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	001	2	8/26/2021	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$332,611
2021	2020	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	7/22/2021	NEW	$0
														Subtotal = $332,611

Issue Date FY: 2020 ( Subtotal = $292,617 )
2020	2020	CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN MARCOS CORPORATION	333 S TWIN OAKS VALLEY RD	SAN MARCOS	CA	92096	SAN DIEGO	USA	Trans-NIH Research Support	000	1	8/20/2020	NEW	$292,617
														Subtotal = $292,617

Grand Total All Awards = $1,012,887

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Families for STEM Success: Mentoring LatinX Parents to Mentor and Support their STEM Students

Award Number: U01GM138437

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: COOPERATIVE AGREEMENT

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2020

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 08/31/2023

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