Biomedical Research Training at Jackson State University

描述（由申请人提供）：JSU MARC U*STAR项目的目标是增加生物学，化学和心理学学士学位的人数，他们将继续获得生物医学科学博士学位。为了实现这一目标，JSU将选择符合一定标准的学生，并实施本科生研究培训计划，包括指导负责任的研究行为；课程增强;以及毕业生衔接活动。本科研究培训将在第一个夏天与JSU教师一起进行校内研究，并在接下来的两个学年中继续进行。在校内暑期课程期间将举办两个讲习班。周五上午有GRE工作坊，周五下午有博士准备工作坊。负责任的研究行为将在下午的研讨会上介绍，并在整个学年中继续进行。在为期两年的MARC实习的第二个夏天，将与优秀研究型大学的研究教员进行校外暑期研究实习。在四个学期的课程中，每学期将提供一次荣誉讨论会。每位学员将被要求成功参加GRE考试，并申请五个研究生项目，最终获得博士学位。将实施一个Pre-MARC青年科学家计划，以确定和介绍大一和大二学生参加MARC U*STAR计划，并将生物医学研究作为职业和教育目标。学生将被介绍研究工具，并将参加生物医学研究研讨会，同时发展他们的研究兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The inclusive goal of MARC U*STAR Program at JSU is to increase the number of baccalaureates in Biology, Chemistry and Psychology who go on to earn Ph.D. degrees in the biomedical sciences. To achieve this, JSU will select students meeting certain criteria and implement a program of undergraduate research training, including instruction in responsible conduct of research; curriculum enhancement; and graduate bridging activities. The undergraduate research training will begin during an initial summer of intramural research with JSU faculty members and continue during the following two academic years. TraineesTwo workshops will be conducted during the intramural summer program. On Friday mornings, a GRE workshop will be given and on Friday afternoons, a doctoral preparation workshop will be given. Responsible conduct of research will be introduced in the afternoon workshops and continued during the academic year. An extramural summer research internship with research faculty of outstanding research universities will occur in the second summer of the two-year MARC traineeship. An Honors colloquia will be offered for each term of the four semester program. Each trainee will be required to successfully take the GRE and apply to five graduate programs leading to the Ph.D. degree. A Pre-MARC Young Scientists Program will be implemented to identify and introduce freshmen and sophomores to the MARC U*STAR program and to biomedical research as a career and educational goal. The students will be introduced to the tools of research and will attend biomedical research seminars, while developing their research interests. The program evaluation will consist of two components, an external evaluation and an internal evaluation. The summative external evaluation will provide the faculty and institutional executive staff an independent review of the strengths, values and potential impact of overall program accomplishments. It will also provide valuable information on expansion possibilities, program improvement and enhancing benefits to students. This evaluation will serve as a means for measuring faculty and student growth and the progress of the JSU's unified plan to strengthen its biomedical research capacity. It will focus on faculty productivity, namely, whether the project increases the number of faculty publications, faculty presentations, and faculty submissions of research grant applications to NIH and/or other funding agencies. The formative internal evaluation will use a Program Effectiveness Model, which insures that the planning loop is closed and that evaluative results are used for program improvements.