# RISE REACHeS

> **NIH NIH R25** · MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · 2020 · $394,588

## Abstract

RISE-REACHeS seeks to instill Resiliency, Excellence, Achievement and Community
in Health Sciences Research Program in our trainees guided by social cognitive career
theory (Byers-Winston, 2016). The long-term goal of our RISE-REACHeS is to
continue to increase the number of BS and BA graduates from life, physical and social
behavioral sciences disciplines at Morgan State University (MSU), who will obtain a
Ph.D. degree in a health-relevant field and commit to a research career. The RISE
Program at MSU, since inception in 1999, has centered on mentored research training in
on-campus and off-campus labs and research groups. Based on formative and summative
evaluations, our Program has evolved to scaffold hands-on research with specific learning
goals (science process and communications skills, critical thinking skills and soft skills)
and strategically placed group activities over the course of the academic year and
summer. Over the history of RISE at MSU we have graduated 122 students;
cumulatively 70% of these students have entered graduate school. This proposal will
continue our successful strategies, but also pursue innovative approaches to increase the
impact of the RISE Program on the overall numbers of graduates from relevant
disciplines at MSU. We continue to have a need to fundamentally improve the academic
preparedness of our students, particularly at the level of their foundation courses, to
increase the pool of students prepared for research. Furthermore, this proposal aims to
address specific barriers to STEM persistence that we have observed at MSU and that are
borne out in the relevant literature.
Thus, the current proposal pursues the following Specific Aims:
 1) To create and develop a freshman focused component of RISE to foster
 science identity and establish self-efficacy from the start of student’s
 academic career.
 2) To establish an interdisciplinary Supplemental Instruction (SI) program for
 foundation courses in Biology, Chemistry, and Mathematics. This approach
 will help students to see the connections between these interrelated disciplines
 from the get-go and increase academic performance and retention. This
 component will strengthen student’s academic self-efficacy and degree
 persistence across the SCMNS and therewith increase impact beyond RISE
 Program participants.
 3) To streamline the existing curriculum of effective interventions in a manner
 that will enhance the progressive development of central skills needed for
 graduate school success. This process will be scaffolded by the
 implementation of an Individual Development Plan (IDP) for RISE
 participants and regularly scheduled REACHeS community meetings.

## Key facts

- **NIH application ID:** 9893722
- **Project number:** 5R25GM058904-19
- **Recipient organization:** MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
- **Principal Investigator:** Angela J Winstead
- **Activity code:** R25 (R01, R21, SBIR, etc.)
- **Funding institute:** NIH
- **Fiscal year:** 2020
- **Award amount:** $394,588
- **Award type:** 5
- **Project period:** 1999-03-01 → 2024-03-31

## Primary source

NIH RePORTER: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9893722

## Citation

> US National Institutes of Health, RePORTER application 9893722, RISE REACHeS (5R25GM058904-19). Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-23 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/grant/nih/9893722. Licensed CC0.

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