MARC U-STAR Program at Washington University in St. Louis

描述（由申请人提供）：华盛顿大学在生物医学和行为科学领域的本科和研究生教育方面被广泛认可。作为多样性成果的一贯表现者和全国领先的研究机构之一，华盛顿大学特别适合成为解决少数民族学生在这些科学领域代表性不足问题的一部分。我们提出的MARC U-STAR计划是一个全面的，为期四年的计划，利用我们的大量高潜力的少数民族学生和我们现有的基础设施，已经成功地招募和留住少数民族学生在生物医学相关的科学。我们的招聘和保留策略建立在现有的基础设施，以吸引代表性不足的少数民族的科学，建立一个早期的学术社区的学生，使他们能够在他们选择追求科学学位，培养他们在生物医学研究，并保留他们在生物医学和行为科学管道，并通过研究生院在华盛顿大学或其他地方。该计划将是一个更大的大学范围内的倡议，以增加华盛顿大学毕业生的比例，并完成博士学位的关键组成部分的一部分。程序.我们的理由是，虽然我们不像其他少数民族人口占多数的大学那样为少数民族学生提供服务，但我们所有的少数民族学生（2006年有830名学生）都有很高的成就，有很高的潜力完成博士学位。是生物医学或行为科学此外，大约60%的少数民族学生（每班130人）在进入大学时将生物医学相关科学作为学术和职业兴趣，但只有一小部分人攻读生物医学相关博士学位。's.我们建议在培训计划中支持每个班级6名学生;考虑到我们的少数民族人口，我们对生物医学相关科学的高度兴趣以及这些领域的高学生成功率，这是非常可行的。即使是一个温和的，75%的成功率在马克学者博士。我们将实现博士数量增加约四倍。我们的少数民族学生在生物医学相关科学的追求。 公共卫生相关性声明：该计划将对少数民族学生攻读和完成博士学位的总数产生重大，明显的影响。生物医学相关科学（华盛顿大学增加了大约四倍。该计划将对公共卫生产生积极影响，并将增加生物和生物医学领域的代表性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Washington University is widely recognized for excellence in undergraduate and graduate education in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. As a consistent performer in diversity outcomes and one of the nation's leading research institutions, Washington University is particularly well suited to be part of the solution to underrepresentation of minority students in these sciences. Our proposed MARC U-STAR program is a comprehensive, four-year program that capitalizes on the large number of our high-potential minority students and on our existing infrastructure that has been so successful at recruiting and retaining minority students in the biomedically-related sciences. Our recruitment and retention strategy builds upon existing infrastructure to attract underrepresented minorities to the sciences, build an early scholarly community for the students, empower them early in their choice to pursue science degrees, train them in biomedical research, and retain them in the biomedical and behavioral sciences pipeline to and through graduate school at Washington University or elsewhere. This program will be part of a critical component of a greater university-wide initiative to increase the percentage of Washington University graduates enrolling in and completing Ph.D. programs. Our rationale is that while we do not serve as many minority students as other universities with majority-minority populations, all of our minority students (830 students in 2006) have very high previous achievements and have high potential to complete Ph.D.'s in a biomedical or behavioral science. Further, around 60% of our minority students (130 per entering class) cite biomedically-related science as an academic and career interest upon entrance to the University, yet only a tiny fraction pursue biomedically-relevant Ph.D.'s. We propose to support 6 students per entering class in the training program; this is more than feasible, given our minority population, our high student interest in the biomedically-related sciences, and high student success rate in these fields. With even a modest, 75% success rate at MARC-scholar Ph.D. pursuits, we will realize an approximately four-fold increase in the number of Ph.D. pursuits of our minority students in the biomedically-relevant sciences. Public Health Relevance Statement: This program will have significant, demonstrable impact on the total number of minority students pursuing and completing Ph.D.'s in the biomedical-related sciences (an approximately four-fold increase at Washington University. The program will have a positive impact upon public health and will increase representation in biological and biomedical fields.