Undergraduate Biomedical Research Training at UTEP

描述(由申请者提供)：德州大学埃尔帕索分校的MARC U*STAR项目将继续寻找和培养有能力进入美国最高水平生物医学研究职业活动的年轻少数族裔学生。每个学生都将参加他/她的学科所需的课程(在我们的案例中，是生物科学、化学、数学和物理)，以及一系列对其他学生来说不是标准的必修校园活动：激烈的研究经历，最终以口头答辩书面荣誉本科生论文；哲学系生物伦理学课程和研究导论课程。后一门课程每学期招收学生，有许多组成部分(研讨会、研讨会、演讲)，旨在培养一位具有专业以外广泛观点的有思想的伦理科学家，并具有明确定义的沟通能力。校外研究经验也将受到强烈鼓励。除了参加MARC定期安排的会议/研讨会/专题讨论会外，每个学生还将在国家会议上介绍他们的研究数据。评估过程包括在丹尼斯·卡雷霍博士的指导下，由与埃尔帕索大学机构评估研究规划中心相关的专业评估小组运行的计划中。该提案包含了一项重大努力，以增加MARC U-STAR项目在校园中的影响。这包括新的短期课程(生物信息学和科学创业导论)，最初将针对MARC学生，并在有限的基础上向其他人开放(RISE等)。在授权期结束后，这两门课程预计将成为大学社区的标准课程，并成为独立的课程。此外，还将制作一系列学生和访问科学家研讨会的视频，以成为学术界的资源库，展示知识状况，并展示我们未被充分代表的少数族裔UG学者如何产生影响。 相关性：我们提出了一个与生物医学相关的研究培训计划，以帮助未被充分代表的优等生，并通过博士学位推动他们进入与健康相关的研究职业。除了个人研究项目和导师，还将提供一项关于生物伦理学、科学创业和研究主题的特别课程计划，以及特别的暑期研究实习，以实现这一目标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MARC U*STAR program at U.T. El Paso will continue to seek out and nurture young minority students who possess the capacity to enter into the highest level of biomedical research career activity within the USA. Each student will participate in the courses needed for his/her discipline (in our case, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics) plus a series of mandatory on-campus activities not standard for other students: a vigorous research experience culminating in the oral defense of a written Honors Undergraduate Thesis; a Philosophy Department Bioethics course and an Introduction to Research course. The latter course, in which the students are enrolled each semester, has many components (workshops, seminar, presentations) aimed at producing a thoughtful ethical scientist with a broad viewpoint outside of his specialty, and a clearly defined capacity to communicate. Off-campus research experiences will also be strongly encouraged. Each student will be expected to present their research data at national meetings in addition to participation in the regularly scheduled MARC meetings/seminars/symposia. An evaluation process is included in the program run by a professional evaluation group associated with the Center for Institutional Evaluation Research Planning at U. T. El Paso, under the Direction of Dr. Denise Carrejo. The proposal contains a significant effort to increase the impact of the MARC U-STAR program on the campus. This involves new short courses (Introduction to Bioinformatics and Science Entrepreneurship), which will be initially aimed at MARC students and be open to others (RISE, etc) on a limited basis. After the granting period, both courses are expected to become regularly taught as standard classes for the University Community and be self standing. Also a series of videos of both student and visiting scientist seminars will be produced to become a resource library for the academic community and illustrate the state of knowledge and demonstrate how our underrepresented minority UG scholars can make an impact. RELEVANCE: We propose a biomedicaly related research training program to underrepresented honors students and propel them into health related research careers via the Ph.D. degree. Together with an individual research project and mentor, a program of special courses in bioethics, scientific entrepreneurship and research topics will be provided along with special summer research internships to accomplish this goal.