MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research at Queens College

皇后学院 MARC 本科生学术研究培训

• 批准号: 7627866
• 负责人: ZAHRA ZAKERI
• 金额: $ 49.17万
• 依托单位: QUEENS COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7627866
• 关键词: Adoption; Advertising; Awareness; Basic Science; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Communities; Country; Documentation; Educational workshop; Fostering; Goals; Hand; Investments; Laboratories; Measurable; Mentors; Monitor; Outcome; Outcome Assessment; Paper; Preparation; Prize; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Students; Supervision; System; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; base; career; college; experience; financial incentive; innovation; medical schools; outreach program; peer; posters; programs; public health relevance; success

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.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议增强和优化4年前在皇后学院成功启动的MARC计划。皇后学院（Queens College）是该国最大的城市大学之一的高中学院，位于皇后区的多元化自治市镇。我们制定了一个计划，该计划通过强调实验室实验室的经验以及对学生的密切监督和咨询，这是根据追求或计划从事生物医学研究职业的学生的比例而成功的。基于对我们结果的持续评估，我们修改了我们的初始目标和策略，以实现我们的可衡量目标取得最佳成功。我们建议继续优化1）关于研究基础知识的研讨会，2）我们的研究经验，包括在I大学研究中的一个夏天； 3）我们的密集建议和监测系统； 4）我们坚持认为学生参加研究口语并在同龄人面前进行演讲； 5）我们在MARC学生与其他研究专业的学生之间促进互动。迄今为止，我们的成功的一种反映是，我们的创新皇后学院的其他计划在海报的日子和评估中采用了其他计划。在我们的第二个五年周期中，我们计划通过扩大广告和外展计划以及非常成功的“初学者科学”课程来提高对计划的认识，从而提高我们从中汲取的学生池的规模。我们还将通过新的大学补贴，扩大我们的“卓越辅导”计划，并建立MARC-PRE-MARC MARC BUDDY系统，从而增加MARC学生的经济激励措施。后一项倡议将使MARC的学生更快地进入实验室，将为他们提供同伴支持，并为我们的MARC学生提供指导的经验。在我们提出的第二个周期中，我们将维护和扩大我们广泛的评估和文档工作，以使我们能够在招聘和学生成果以及对大学的整体影响方面判断计划的影响。我们的头四年在学生的学生中取得了成功，在会议上赢得的奖品，发表或准备的论文以及对我们的大学和学院的影响。利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及其对大学和周围社区的影响。 公共卫生相关性声明：该提案旨在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数量。我们绘制的池是一个主要的城市地区，因此我们计划的毕业生很可能通过为该地区主要大学和医学院的研究人员数量做出贡献来返回我们的投资。