Biomedical Research Training for Science Undergraduates

描述(由申请者提供)：为支持康奈尔大学的新地平线计划，申请一笔短期培训补助金。一个奖项将使十名竞争激烈的被选中的学生在连续两年的每一年都能参加一个为期十周的强化项目，这些学生完成了他们在定量或物理科学学科或工程学方面的二年级学习。该计划的结构将鼓励学员进入生物医学研究的职业生涯。该倡议将把教员指导的细胞和分子生物学研究与职业咨询和具有独特丰富性和多样性的专业提升活动结合起来。 有才华的学生将从康奈尔大学和其他20所以其在目标本科学科提供的卓越教育而闻名的机构中选拔。选择学生的标准将包括个人的学业成绩、研究经验和推荐。如果可行，参加培训的候选人将由执行委员会和参与培训的教职员工的相关成员面试。选择项目的标准将是拟议研究的科学价值，以及在该计划进行的十周期间取得有意义进展的前景。康奈尔大学的学生将有机会在他们的初级和高级学年继续他们的研究，尽管不要求对这一阶段的计划提供支持。 将提供癌症生物学、遗传学、传染病以及与细胞生长、细胞运动和癌细胞转移相关的信号机制方面的研究经验。参与的教职员工将是具有全国竞争力的研究科学家，他们拥有出色的培训记录。培训的结构将鼓励学生致力于研究事业，同时提高他们的关键能力和沟通技能。在这方面至关重要的是学术咨询，这将促进个人进入生物医学科学研究生课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): A short-term training grant is requested to support the New Horizons Program at Cornell. An award would enable ten competitively selected students who have completed their sophomore year in a quantitative or physical science discipline or engineering to take part in an intensive ten week program in each of two successive years. The program would be structured to encourage entry of the trainees into careers in biomedical research. The initiative would combine faculty-guided research in cell and molecular biology with vocational counseling and professional enhancement activities of singular richness and diversity. Talented students would be drawn from Cornell and from 20 other institutions known for the excellence of the education they provide in the targeted undergraduate disciplines. The criteria for student selection would include the individual's academic record, research experience and recommendations. When realistic, candidates for training would be interviewed by the Executive Committee and relevant members of the participating faculty. The criteria for project selection would be the scientific merit of the proposed research and the prospect that meaningful progress would be made during the ten-week period that the program is in session. Cornell students would have the opportunity to continue their research during their junior and senior academic years although support for that phase of the program is not requested. Research experiences would be offered in cancer biology, genetics, infectious diseases, and in signaling mechanisms associated with cell growth, cell movement, and cancer cell metastases. The participating faculty would be nationally competitive research scientists who have excellent training records. Training would be structured to encourage the student's commitment to a research career while simultaneously enhancing their critical capacity and communication skills. Vital in this connection would be academic counseling that would facilitate the individual's entry into a graduate program in the biomedical sciences.