URM: Excellence in Undergraduate Research and Mentoring in the Biological Sciences

URM：生物科学本科生研究和指导卓越奖

• 批准号: 0731655
• 负责人: Luis Mota-Bravo
• 金额: $ 99.89万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-08-15 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0731655&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: URM; Excellence; Undergraduate; Research; Mentoring

The University of California-Irvine's URM program will increase the number, level of academic excellence, and diversity of undergraduates who enter and excel in graduate programs in areas of biological research supported by the NSF. Students will be recruited early in their careers (freshman and sophomore) and prepared for entry into the program through faculty seminars, visits to research labs, and activities that will expose recruits to exciting careers in biology. During their junior and senior years, students will be paid to conduct year-round independent research under the direction of a faculty mentor, and prepared for successful entry into graduate programs. Students will join the labs of faculty mentors who have experience in training under-represented minority students and who have funded grants from NSF BIO. Various mentoring and hands-on research activities have been designed to develop the student critical thinking and communication skills, including research seminars, courses on laboratory safety, ethics, and biostatistics, a workshop on principles and practice of biological research, a journal club, presentation of papers at local and national conferences, GRE preparation, and workshops on graduate school application process. The program's innovation derives from the use of the most current knowledge and experience in undergraduate research and mentoring, particularly those that have been found to effectively recruit and retain under-represented minorities in the science and research enterprise. The URM program will enhance the pool of highly qualified, under-represented minority individuals who will enter top-notch graduate programs in biology. More information is available at http://port.bio.uci.edu/urm/.

加州大学欧文分校的URM计划将增加在NSF支持的生物研究领域进入研究生课程并在研究生课程中表现出色的本科生的数量，学术卓越水平和多样性。学生将在他们的职业生涯早期（大一和大二）招募，并通过教师研讨会，参观研究实验室和活动，这将暴露新兵在生物学令人兴奋的职业生涯进入程序准备。在他们的大三和大四，学生将获得报酬，在教师导师的指导下进行全年的独立研究，并为成功进入研究生课程做好准备。学生将加入教师导师的实验室，他们在培训代表性不足的少数民族学生方面有经验，并为NSF BIO提供赠款。各种指导和实践研究活动已经设计，以发展学生的批判性思维和沟通能力，包括研究研讨会，实验室安全，道德和生物统计学课程，生物研究的原则和实践研讨会，期刊俱乐部，在地方和国家会议上提交论文，GRE准备，以及研究生院申请过程研讨会。该计划的创新源于使用本科研究和指导的最新知识和经验，特别是那些已被发现有效地招募和保留在科研企业代表性不足的少数民族。URM计划将提高高素质，代表性不足的少数民族个人谁将进入一流的生物学研究生课程的人才库。更多信息请访问http://port.bio.uci.edu/urm/。