MINORITY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RESEARCH APPRENTICE PROGRAM

在区域协调员倡议的头五年， 研究城市发展的细胞和分子基础 学院 该中心，建立在学院的现有优势， RCMI支持的领域，通过增加八个新的 生物系的教员（其中三名是黑人） 和化学和七个新的教师在纽约市立大学医学院。 有 目前，该中心的25名研究人员分为三个科学小组， 生物分子结构与功能、基因表达与 调节，细胞和生物体功能。 主要设备采购和 中央设施的建立进一步加强了内部的活动， 中心。 学院，具有历史性的承诺，以学术卓越和广泛的 访问，提供我们的学生，其中超过60%是黑人和西班牙裔， 独特的发展机遇。 我们的教师提供榜样 为本科生和研究生提供科学卓越和成就 学生们都一样。 该中心现在建议将科学成就提高到一个新的水平 并利用这一地位，努力寻找和吸引 少数民族本科生和研究生人数不断增加。 为此，该中心需要在关键领域雇用更多的教师， 购置主要设备和提供新的技术支持人员， 包括博士后研究员和技术人员， 操作日益先进的研究设备。 除了主要的科学领域，中心的独特技能 教师们正被组织起来从事几个与艾滋病有关的项目 关于艾滋病相关生物肺孢子虫的特性 carinii和关于对HIV病毒本身的免疫反应。 预计增加的RCMI教师包括一名高级分子 生物学家担任项目主任，X射线晶体学家， 生物分子物理特性的专家，一种分子 遗传学家和神经生物学家 这些科学家将提供广度 这将补充现有的领域。 主要设备采购 包括自动测序仪和聚合酶链式反应加热器 循环仪。

The first five years of the RCMI initiative saw the creation of the Center for the Study of the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Development at City College. The Center, built on the existing strengths of the College in the RCMI-supported areas, was enriched by the addition of eight new faculty members (three of whom are Black) in the Departments of Biology and Chemistry and seven new faculty in the CUNY Medical School. There are now 25 researchers participating in the Center grouped in three scientific areas--Biomolecular Structure and Function, Gene Expression and Regulation, and Cell and Organism Function. Major equipment purchases and the creation of central facilities further enhanced the activity within the Center. The College, with a historic commitment to academic excellence and broad access, offers our students, more than 60% of whom are Black and Hispanic, unique opportunities for development. Our faculty provides role models for scientific excellence and achievement to under-graduates and graduate students alike. The Center now proposes to move to a new level of scientific attainment and to use that status in a strenuous effort to identify and attract increasing numbers of minority undergraduate and graduate students. To do this, the Center needs to hire additional faculty in key areas, acquire major equipment and provide new technical support personnel, including post-doctoral research fellows and technicians to maintain and operate the increasingly sophisticated state-of-the research equipment. In addition to the main scientific areas, the unique skills of Center faculty are being marshalled to pursue several AIDS-related projects concerning the properties of the AIDS-related organism Pneumocystis carinii and concerning the immunological response to the HIV virus itself. Projected additions to the RCMI faculty include a senior molecular biologist to serve as Project Director, an X-ray crystallographer, a specialist in physical characterization of biomolecules, a molecular geneticist and a neurobiologist. These scientists will provide breadth that will complement the existing areas. Major equipment purchases include an automatic sequencer and a polymerase chain reaction thermal cycler.