MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research at Queens College

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议加强和优化MARC计划，我们成功地在皇后学院4年前推出。皇后学院是全国最大的城市大学之一的高级学院，位于皇后区非常多样化的行政区。我们已经开发了一个程序，通过强调动手实验室经验和学生的密切监督和指导，已被证明是成功的基础上追求或计划追求生物医学研究事业的学生的比例。根据对我们成果的持续评估，我们修改了最初的目标和策略，以在实现可衡量目标方面取得最佳成功。我们建议继续优化1）我们的研究基础知识研讨会，2）我们的研究经验，包括在研究型大学的一个夏天; 3）我们的密集教学和监控系统; 4）我们坚持让学生参加研究座谈会，并在同龄人面前做演讲; 5）我们促进MARC学生和其他研究学生之间的互动。到目前为止，我们成功的一个反映是皇后学院的其他项目采用了我们的创新，用于海报日和评估。在我们的第二个五年周期，我们计划提高我们的计划的认识，从而从我们画的学生池的大小，通过扩大广告和推广计划，以及一个非常成功的“科学入门”课程。我们还将通过新的大学补贴增加对预MARC学生的经济激励，扩大我们的“卓越辅导”计划，并建立一个MARC前MARC伙伴系统。后一项举措将使MARC前的学生更快地进入实验室，为他们提供同行支持，并为我们的MARC学生提供指导经验。在整个我们提出的第二个周期，我们将保持和扩大我们广泛的评估和文件的努力，使我们能够判断我们的计划在招聘和学生成绩方面的影响，以及我们对学院的整体影响。我们的前四年已经成功的学生放置，在大会上获奖，论文发表或准备，并对我们的学院和部门的影响方面。使用我们的成果评估的结果，我们计划继续优化我们的培训计划，以及它对我们的大学和周边社区的影响。 公共卫生相关性声明：这项建议的目的是增加来自代表性不足的少数群体的生物医学科学研究人员的人数。我们从一个主要的城市地区吸引人才，因此我们计划的毕业生可能会通过增加该地区主要大学和医学院的研究人员数量来回报我们的投资。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to enhance and optimize the MARC program that we successfully launched at Queens College 4 years ago. Queens College is a senior college of one of the largest urban universities in the country and is situated in the remarkably diverse borough of Queens. We have developed a program that, through emphasis on hands-on laboratory experience and close supervision and advisement of students, has proven successful based on the proportion of students pursuing or planning to pursue careers in biomedical research. Based on an ongoing assessment of our outcomes, we have modified our initial goals and tactics to achieve optimal success in achieving our measurable objectives. We propose to continue to optimize 1) our workshops on research basics, 2) our hands on research experience, including one summer at a Research I University; 3) our intensive advisement and monitoring system; 4) our insistence that students attend research colloquia and make presentations in front of their peers; and 5) our fostering of interaction between MARC students and other research students. One reflection of our success thus far has been the adoption by other programs at Queens College of our innovations for a poster day and for assessment. In our second five-year cycle, we plan to increase awareness of our program, and thus the size of the student pool from which we draw, by expanded advertising and outreach programs as well as a highly successful "Science For Starters" course. We will also increase financial incentives for pre-MARC students through a new College subsidy, expand our "tutoring for excellence" program, and establishing a MARC-pre-MARC buddy system. This latter initiative will get pre-MARC students into laboratories more quickly, will provide them with peer support, and will give our MARC students experience in mentoring. Throughout our proposed second cycle, we will maintain and expand our extensive assessment and documentation efforts to allow us to judge the impact of our program in terms of recruiting and student outcomes as well as our overall impact on the College. Our first four years have been successful in terms of students placed, prizes won at conventions, papers published or in preparation, and impact on our College and Division. Using the results from our outcomes assessments, we plan to continue to optimize both our training program, and its impact on our College and surrounding community. Public Health Relevance Statement: This proposal is intended to increase the number of researchers in biomedical sciences who derive from under-represented minorities. The pool from which we draw is a major urban region, so that the graduates of our program are likely to return our investment by contributing to the number of researchers at major universities and medical schools in the region.