RIO PIEDRAS MARC U*STAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议中的MARC U* 星星计划在里约热内卢彼德拉斯校区旨在通过增加谁进入著名的研究生课程和新的战略，旨在确保更多的学员将在位置进入国家的科学界的主流已经示范计划。为此，该计划将继续招募非常有才华的学生，并为他们提供一个指导的校内研究经验，其中包括一个明确的项目，导致结果将在科学会议上提出或发表，并将在测试中描述。重点也将放在一个适当的夏季研究在外部网站，咨询和援助研究生院申请。 为了实现这些目标，它将继续为34名受训人员寻找职位。它将与招聘前受训人员的研究主管建立直接联系，以获得关于研究培训战略的反馈意见。它将为受训人员举办讲习班，提高他们的交流技能，特别是英文写作，并将强调他们参加技术讲习班。该计划还寻求资金，以加快入门级生物学和数学课程的发展，并进一步提高化学。这些活动不仅将增加留存率，减少所有生物和化学专业的毕业时间，而且在五年内，将增加至少100名符合MARC条件的大三学生。一系列的科学推广将包括在内，以指导更多的这些职业进入生物医学研究。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed MARC U*STAR Program at the Rio Piedras Campus seeks to improve an already exemplary program by increasing the number of trainees who enter prestigious graduate programs and with new strategies designed to ensure that more of its trainees will be in positions to enter into the mainstream of the nation's scientific community. To this end, the Program will continue to recruit highly talented students and provide them with a mentored intramural research experience that includes a well-defined project that leads to results which will be presented at scientific meetings or published and which will be described in a tesina. Emphasis will also be placed on an appropriate summer research at an external site, counseling and assistance in graduate school applications. In order to meet these objectives it will continue to seek positions for 34 trainees. It will establish direct communications with research supervisors who have recruited its ex-trainees in order to gain feedback on research training strategies. It will provide its trainees with workshops that improve their communications skills, particularly English writing, and will emphasize their participation in technical workshops. The Program also seeks funding to accelerate the development of the entry level Biology and Mathematics courses and to further improve those in Chemistry. These activities will not only increase the retention rate and reduce the time to graduation of all Biology and Chemistry majors, but in five years should increase the pool of MARC eligible rising Juniors by at least a 100 students. A series of science promotions will be included in order to direct more of these into careers into biomedical research.