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The TRI STARs Program
Research shows that teams working together and capitalizing on innovative ideas and distinct perspectives outperform homogenous teams. Scientists and trainees from different backgrounds and life experiences bring different perspectives, creativity, and individual enterprise to address complex scientific problems. Benefits include fostering scientific innovation, enhancing global and national competitiveness, contributing to robust learning environments for our students, improving research quality, and advancing the likelihood that communities across Arkansas will participate in, and benefit from, health research.
The TRI Strategies for Training and Advancing Researchers (STARs) Program provides the structured mentoring, grant writing skills and connections to institutional research resources and support to help strengthen the research acumen of junior faculty and faculty new to the research enterprise. Importantly, it also provides a community of real support to ensure participants’ success in becoming independent investigators.
The STARs program aims to build a peer support community of faculty in biomedical, clinical, behavioral and social sciences research to foster career development and research success. This is accomplished by:
- Establishing a structured peer support group that engages in a five-month program of grant training and development. This model addresses issues of isolation often felt by junior and new-to-research faculty in academic settings. It also provides and encourages the development of innovative research ideas in a safe environment. This peer support group can also help improve confidence and self-efficacy in clinical and translational research development and execution.
- ·Providing practical research skill development and grantsmanship.
- Offering access to research mentors and research support services, i.e. IRB protocol development and submission, recruitment, etc.
- Supplying $10,000 in seed funding upon course completion to help jumpstart future grant applications and generate preliminary data.
Eligibility
- Eligible participants should have a terminal degree; must be full-time faculty at UAMS, UAMS-NW, Arkansas Children’s Hospital and Research Institute, or Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System who hold non-temporary positions at the rank of instructor, assistant professor, or associate professor; and must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
If you would like more information or have questions, please contact Adam Kleinerman at akleinerman@uams.edu.
The TRI mission can be found at tri.uams.edu/about-tri .