Minority Access To Research Careers U*STAR

描述（由申请人提供）： 夏威夷大学马诺阿分校是夏威夷州立大学系统的10个校区中的旗舰本科和研究校区。 学生群体的种族多样性反映了国家人口，事实上，没有多数群体。 该机构的使命和目标强调教育公平，多样性，以及招聘和保留学生和教师的代表性不足的群体。 这些群体包括菲律宾人、夏威夷人和太平洋岛民（萨摩亚人、汤加人、萨摩亚人、查莫罗人），MARC U* 星星计划为这些群体提供服务。太平洋生物医学研究中心是该系统中第三大有组织的研究单位，拥有UH的大部分生物医学，生物技术和生物研究，并且已经成为MARC计划的赞助单位超过20年。它的部分使命是对代表性不足的本科生和研究生、博士后研究员和教师进行研究培训。NIH MARC项目的总体目标是增加少数民族学生完成博士学位的人数，从而导致生物医学科学的职业生涯。 UH MARC计划旨在通过增加选定的，荣誉口径，少数民族本科生的研究，学术和个人准备，以成功竞争研究生培训机会来实现这一目标。 该计划的主要特点是为期两年的研究实习，密集的学术咨询，GRE准备，前往国家科学会议，并在美国大陆机构的夏季研究。 其他丰富的组成部分包括研究研讨会，教程，动手仪器培训，讲座和研讨会的道德，职业选择和科学交流。 10名少数民族本科生将与科学学科的教师导师相匹配，如分子生物学，癌症研究，细胞生物学，神经生物学，心理学，微生物学，动物学，生殖生物学，保护生物学和逆转录病毒学。 形成性和总结性评估与计划计划相结合，以评估拟议培训的所有组成部分的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Hawaii at Manoa is the flagship undergraduate and research campus of the 10-campus University of Hawaii State-wide system. The ethnically diverse student population reflects the State population, and, in fact, there is no majority group. The institution's mission and goals emphasize educational equity, diversity, and the recruitment and retention of students and faculty of under-represented groups. These include Filipino, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (Samoan, Tongan, Micronesian, Chamorro), and it is these groups that are served by the MARC U*STAR Program. The Pacific Biomedical Research Center, the third largest organized research unit in the system, houses the majority of UH's biomedical, biotech, and biological research and has been the sponsoring unit for the MARC Program for more than 20 years. Part of its mission is the research training of under-represented undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty. The overall goal of the NIH MARC Program is to increase the number of minority students who complete Ph.D.s leading to careers in biomedical sciences. The UH MARC Program seeks to accomplish that goal by increasing the research, academic, and personal preparedness of selected, honors-caliber, minority undergraduates to successfully compete for graduate training opportunities. The major features of the program are a two-year research internship, intensive academic advising, GRE preparation, travel to national scientific meetings, and summer research at a US Mainland institution. Additional enrichment components include research symposia, tutorials, hands-on instrumentation training, and lectures and workshops on ethics, career options, and scientific communication. Ten minority undergraduates will be matched with faculty mentors in scientific disciplines such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Psychology, Microbiology, Zoology, Reproductive Biology, Conservation Biology, and Retrovirology. Formative and summative evaluation is integrated with the program plan for assessment of the impact of all components of the proposed training.