# IMSD at Stony Brook University: Maximizing Excellence in Research for Graduate Education -- Fostering Inclusive Research Scientist Training (FIRST)

> **NIH NIH T32** · STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK · 2021 · $47,205

## Abstract

Project Summary / Abstract
IMSD at Stony Brook University: Maximizing Excellence in Research for Graduate
Education
Fostering Inclusive Research Scientist Training (FIRST)
The Fostering Inclusive Research Scientist Training (FIRST) Workshop series (supplement to
the NIH-funded Stony Brook University Initiative for Maximizing Student Development:
Maximizing Excellence in Research for Graduate Education) is designed to better equip faculty
and administrators in biomedical science departments and graduate programs to foster safe and
inclusive training environments for underrepresented (UR) trainees in the biomedical sciences.
The workshop series will focus mitigating the effects of the “chilly climate”, the phenomenon
where UR individuals feel unwelcome in an environment due to factors such as numerical
underrepresentation and perceptions of unconscious and/or overt bias. The three main areas
that addressed by the workshop series are anti-racism; unconscious bias; and allyship and
advocacy - three topics recognized as areas of need by biomedical science trainees at Stony
Brook University. The audience for the FIRST Workshop series is faculty and staff with
important roles in biomedical science graduate training programs at Stony Brook University.
The seven-session FIRST Workshop series will employ a data-driven and evidence based
approach to develop curriculum and will employ the EPIC (exposure, persuasion, identification,
and commitment) model of active learning (Aragon et al., 2016), utilizing an incremental
approach to both successfully convey the importance of the topics and to motivate participants
to adopt the practices covered in the material. FIRST Workshop participants will also have the
opportunity to develop a specific activity that addresses a workshop topic of their choice and
present their plan to all of the workshop participants to obtain suggestions for improvements,
discuss their plans for implementation and celebrate the work of all of the participants.
The FIRST Workshop will better prepare faculty and staff to create safe and inclusive training
environments that diminish the chilly climate and encourage UR trainees to pursue biomedical
science career paths.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 10394022
- **Project number:** 3T32GM135746-01A1S1
- **Recipient organization:** STATE UNIVERSITY NEW YORK STONY BROOK
- **Principal Investigator:** John Peter Gergen
- **Activity code:** T32 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2021
- **Award amount:** $47,205
- **Award type:** 3
- **Project period:** 2021-02-01 → 2026-01-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10394022

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 10394022, IMSD at Stony Brook University: Maximizing Excellence in Research for Graduate Education -- Fostering Inclusive Research Scientist Training (FIRST) (3T32GM135746-01A1S1). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-25 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/10394022. Licensed CC0.

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