Biomedical Research Training for Science Undergraduates

描述（由申请人提供）：要求提供短期培训补助金，以支持康奈尔大学的新视野计划。一个奖项将使十个竞争性选择的学生谁已经完成了他们的大二在定量或物理科学学科或工程参加在连续两年的每一个密集的十周计划。该方案的结构将鼓励受训人员进入生物医学研究领域。该倡议将结合联合收割机教师指导的细胞和分子生物学研究与职业咨询和专业增强活动的奇异丰富性和多样性。 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中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、研究经验和推荐信。在可行的情况下，执行委员会和参与学院的相关成员将对培训候选人进行面试。项目选择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内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大三和大四学年继续他们的研究，虽然该计划的这一阶段的支持是不要求的。 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。参与的教师将是具有国家竞争力的研究科学家，他们具有良好的培训记录。培训的结构将鼓励学生致力于研究事业，同时提高他们的批判能力和沟通技巧。在这方面至关重要的是学术咨询，这将有助于个人进入生物医学科学的研究生课程。

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.