MARC at Arizona State University

说明(申请人提供)：该提案旨在增加目前代表性不足的少数群体对生物医学研究的参与。提案中特别关注美洲原住民。少数族裔，特别是美洲原住民，受到健康问题的影响不成比例。这些组织成员更多地参与生物医学研究将有助于解决这一问题。该提案将招收高潜力的少数族裔学生进入合适的大学理科专业作为解决方案的第一步。这些招募工作必须涉及少数族裔社区和保留地，必须与中学生及其家人接触；这项工作正在由萨姆研究所完成。这些招生工作的预期结果是亚利桑那州立大学理科专业的全日制学生入学。解决方案中的第二步是本MARC提案的主要重点。这涉及到已经在亚利桑那州立大学注册的少数族裔学生的核心。这项建议旨在通过一个关于少数民族健康问题和科学研究的强化暑期课程，招收具有高潜力的少数族裔学生参加MARC和PreMARC项目。新招收的学生将加入现有的志同道合的少数族裔学生(MARC预科和MARC实习生)，他们主修生物、数学、化学和物理等领域。他们将成为本科生研究社区的成员，该社区的成员抱有很高的抱负。通过MARC预科课程和MARC课程，这些学生将被介绍到研究中，他们将与精心挑选的教师导师合作，这些导师将教授和指导他们。在整个过程中，学生将有一个支持结构，其中包括教师导师、MARC建议、强制MARC课程和Guaymass课程，以及必要时的个人辅导。在大学的头两年，他们必须培养在困难的专业中坚持下去所必需的自信，PreMARC项目就是为了做到这一点。亚利桑那州立大学和萨姆研究所已经存在的支助结构是这一进程不可或缺的一部分。他们将成为MARC实习生的最后两个本科年是非常关键的，这是他们将依靠自己培养的自信，以具有竞争力的学术成绩毕业进入研究生院的时候。他们将拥有良好的学术和研究技能，这些技能将支持他们完成研究生学业并进入专业研究职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal seeks to increase the participation of currently underrepresented minorities in bio-medical research. There is a special focus on Native Americans in the proposal. Minorities, especially Native Americans, suffer disproportionately from health problems. Increased participation in bio-medical research by members of these groups will help to address this problem. The proposal identifies recruitment of high potential minority students into appropriate university science majors as the first step in the solution. These recruitment efforts must reach into minority communities and reservations, contacts must be made with secondary school students and their families; this is being completed by the SUMS Institute. The desired outcome of these recruitment efforts is full-time enrollment in a science major at Arizona State University. The second step in the solution is the main focus of this MARC proposal. This involves a nucleus of minority students already enrolled at Arizona State University. This proposal seeks to recruit high potential minority students into the MARC and PreMARC programs via an intensive summer course on Minority Health Issues and Science Research. Newly recruited students will join this existing nucleus of like-minded minority students (Pre-MARC and MARC trainees) majoring in areas such as Biology, Mathematics, Chemistry, and Physics. They will become members of an undergraduate research community whose members have high aspirations. Through the Pre-MARC and MARC programs, these students will be introduced to research, they will work with carefully selected faculty mentors who will teach and guide them. Throughout, the students will have a support structure that includes faculty mentors, MARC advisement, mandatory MARC coursework and the Guaymas Course, as well as individual tutoring when necessary. In their first two years of university they must develop the self-confidence necessary to persist in difficult majors, the PreMARC program is designed to do just that. The support structure, which already exists at Arizona State University and in the SUMS Institute, is an indispensable part of this process. Their last two undergraduate years, years where they will be MARC trainees, are very critical, this is the time when they will rely on the self-confidence they have developed in order to graduate with academic records that are competitive for admission to graduate school. They will have well-developed academic and research skills that will sustain them through graduate school and into professional research careers.