MARC Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program

拟议的MARC U-STAR计划的目标是进一步增加合格的 继续攻读博士学位的本科生人数不足。生物医学水平 和行为科学。该项目将由代表协调计划的活动组成 这包括本科招聘，广泛的研究经验，和研究生院 准备.这些活动围绕着大学荣誉序列，再加上 为MARC学员提供具体课程，使他们为严格的研究生培训做好准备。在 在上一个资助期，我们在实施更严格的学生 征聘和甄选过程，筛选出有兴趣在 医学或与生物医学研究无关的领域;来自城市的MARC学员人数不断增加 学院现在正在进入并完成生物医学科学博士课程。核心目标 我们的计划仍然是学生的招聘和选拔，并为 研究生院我们将招收学生进入教师的实验室在 生物系、生物医学工程系、化学与生物化学系、地球与大气系 科学，物理学和心理学;导师池还包括来自索菲戴维斯的教师 生物医学教育学院。学生将被任命为他们的最后2年的本科 研究，并将从事指导独立的研究，定期与他们的咨询会议， 导师和MARC计划主任和咨询委员会，并将参加专业 发展研讨会。我们还将利用纽约城市大学的倡议 扩大科学基础设施;例如，现在有两个新的科学大楼的城市 大学校园，有兴趣在结构生物学项目工作的学员可以访问 在纽约结构科学院， CCNY校园的生物中心，对癌症研究感兴趣的学员可以参加 城市学院与纪念斯隆凯特琳的合作伙伴关系所创造的机会的优势 癌症中心新MARC U-STAR计划的实施将使顶级科学受益 学生，包括受训人员和非受训人员，从而达到加强 学院在科学方面培养学生的能力，并加强他们的研究训练 在城市学院的经历

The goal of the proposed MARC U-STAR program is to further increase the number of qualified underrepresented undergraduates who continue their education at the Ph.D. level in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The project will consist of activities that represent a coordinated program that includes undergraduate recruitment, extensive research experience, and graduate school preparation. These activities are centered around the College Honors Sequence, coupled with specific courses for the MARC trainees to prepare them for the rigors of postgraduate training. In the previous funding period we made significant progress in implementing a more stringent student recruitment and selection process to screen out candidates interested in pursuing careers in medicine or fields unrelated to biomedical research; increasing numbers of MARC trainees from City College are now entering and completing doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. Core goals of our program remain student recruitment and selection, and advisement and preparation for graduate school. We will recruit students for placement into the laboratories of faculty in the departments of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth & Atmospheric Science, Physics, and Psychology; the pool of mentors also includes faculty from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. Students will be appointed for their final 2 years of undergraduate study and will engage in mentored independent research, have regular advising meetings with their mentor and the MARC program director and advisory committee, and will participate in professional development seminars. We will also take advantage of initiatives by the City University of New York to expand science infrastructure; for example there are now two new science buildings on the City College campus, trainees interested in working on projects in structural biology have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural analyses of biomolecules at the New York Structural Biology Center on the CCNY campus, and trainees interested in cancer research are able to take advantage of opportunities created by City College's partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The implementation of the new MARC U-STAR program will benefit top science students, both trainees as well as non-trainees, thereby meeting the goals of strengthening the capability of the college to train students in the sciences, and enhancing their research training experience at City College.