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Abstract:
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In 2015, California State University, Monterey Bay (CSUMB) began several programs to support undergraduate training in biomedical data science. We developed new academic programs relevant to biomedical data science and professional and research training for undergraduate students and faculty. In addition, we began a collaborative summer research program with the Genomics Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We will present the evaluation of the last five years of the program and the impact of collaboration between a primarily undergraduate institution and a primarily research institution to support student success in biomedical data science. We will provide case studies and data on the impact of academic, professional, and personal support to support students from first-generation and historically excluded backgrounds to pursue graduate studies in biomedical data science. We will include experiences transitioning the summer program online during the pandemic. The institutionalization of the proposed structures will allow us to recruit more students, even those “late” in their academic career, into the data science graduate programs and careers.
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