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

加州大学欧文分校的URM项目将增加本科生的数量、学术水平和多样性，这些本科生进入美国国家科学基金会支持的生物研究领域的研究生课程并取得优异成绩。学生将在他们的职业生涯早期（大一和大二）被招募，并通过教师研讨会、参观研究实验室和活动为进入该项目做准备，这些活动将使新招募的学生接触到令人兴奋的生物学职业。在他们的大三和大四期间，学生将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。学生将加入导师的实验室，导师在培训少数族裔学生方面有经验，并获得了NSF BIO的资助。为了培养学生的批判性思维和沟通能力，我们设计了各种指导和实践研究活动，包括研究研讨会、实验室安全、伦理和生物统计学课程、生物研究原理和实践研讨会、期刊俱乐部、在地方和国家会议上发表论文、GRE准备和研究生申请过程研讨会。该项目的创新源于对本科生研究和指导的最新知识和经验的使用，特别是那些在科研企业中有效招募和留住代表性不足的少数民族的知识和经验。URM计划将增加高素质，代表性不足的少数民族个人的数量，他们将进入顶尖的生物学研究生课程。更多信息请访问http://port.bio.uci.edu/urm/。

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/.