MARC at Arizona State University

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案旨在增加目前代表性不足的少数民族在生物医学研究中的参与。该提案特别关注美洲原住民。少数民族，特别是印第安人，遭受了不成比例的健康问题。这些团体成员更多地参与生物医学研究将有助于解决这一问题。该提案将招募高潜力的少数民族学生进入适当的大学理科专业作为解决方案的第一步。这些招募工作必须深入到少数民族社区和保留区内，必须与中学生及其家庭建立联系；这项工作正在由苏姆斯研究所完成。这些招聘努力的理想结果是亚利桑那州立大学理科专业的全日制招生。解决方案的第二步是本MARC提案的主要焦点。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。该提案旨在通过少数民族健康问题和科学研究的强化暑期课程，招募高潜力的少数民族学生进入MARC和PreMARC项目。新招收的学生将加入这个由志同道合的少数民族学生组成的现有核心（Pre-MARC和MARC实习生），主修生物、数学、化学和物理等领域。他们将成为一个本科生研究团体的成员，这个团体的成员都有很高的抱负。通过Pre-MARC和MARC项目，这些学生将被引入研究，他们将与精心挑选的教师导师一起工作，他们将教授和指导他们。在整个过程中，学生将有一个支持结构，包括教师导师，MARC咨询，强制性的MARC课程和瓜伊马斯课程，以及必要时的个人辅导。在大学的头两年，他们必须培养必要的自信来坚持困难的专业，PreMARC计划就是为了做到这一点。在亚利桑那州立大学和苏姆斯研究所已经存在的支助结构是这一进程不可缺少的一部分。他们在本科的最后两年，也就是他们将成为MARC实习生的那两年，是非常关键的，这是他们将依靠自己建立起来的自信来毕业的时候，他们的学习成绩将在研究生院的录取中具有竞争力。他们将拥有良好的学术和研究技能，这将支持他们通过研究生院并进入专业研究职业。

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.