UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium in Chemical and Biological Sciences

描述（由申请人提供）：此更新申请寻求继续支持为期一天的年度会议，该会议突出了跨越化学和生物学学科的本科研究。该活动的目标是培养本科生对生物医学研究的兴趣，并包括：(1)提供一个高能量的肯定事件，将个人的科学努力置于跨越生物和化学研究的一系列努力的更大背景下；(2)大力征集并获得生物医学研究企业中大量代表性不足的人员的参与；(3)增强青年科学家对化学和生物学研究问题之间的界面，以及在许多情况下的密切联系的认识。我们寻求维持一个区域性研讨会，以促进化学和生物学两大学科之间的高质量本科科学。以目前的形式，它是一个充满活力和活力的论坛；欢迎和促进参与者的多样性，这是当前研究活跃的博士科学家群体的典型特征。在过去的支持下，我们觉得我们正在实现上述目标。鉴于我们的资源和需要保持一个亲密和支持性的会议结构，我们寻求支持，以稳定的状态出席约200次演讲。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application seeks continued support for an annual one-day meeting that highlights undergraduate research spanning the disciplines of Chemistry and Biology. The goals of this event are oriented toward nurturing Undergraduate interest, among a diverse population, in biomedical research and involve: (1) providing a high- energy affirmative event that places an individual's scientific endeavors in the larger context of the array of endeavors spanning biological and chemical research; (2) vigorously soliciting, and obtaining, the participation of substantial numbers of those underrepresented in the biomedical research enterprise; and (3) enhancing young scientist's awareness of the interface, and in many cases the intimate linkages, between chemical and biological research problems. We seek to sustain a regional Symposium that promotes top quality undergraduate science across and between the two major disciplines of chemistry and biology. In its present form, it is an energetic and dynamic forum; welcoming of and promoting the diversity of participants that is atypical of current cohort of research-active PhD scientists. With the past support we feel that we are accomplishing the above. Given our resources and the need to maintain an intimate and supportive conference structure, we seek support for a steady state attendance of about 200 presentations. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application requests funds for an annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at which solely undergraduate students participate in a one-day event comprising two poster sessions. This conference at University of Maryland Baltimore County has completed its 11th year. This is a very positive experience involving a very diverse student group and it motivates students toward careers in scientific research. The conference sub-theme is research at the Chemistry-Biology interface and so many students are exposed and encouraged toward research disciplines that bear on the national need for a diverse workforce oriented to problems of biomedical relevance.