MARC Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的MARC U* 星星计划的目标是进一步增加合格的URM本科生谁继续在博士教育的数量。生物医学科学的水平。该项目将包括代表一个 协调计划，包括本科招生，广泛的研究经验，和研究生院的准备。这些活动围绕着大学荣誉序列，再加上MARC学员的具体课程，为他们准备研究生培训的严格。在上一个资助期间，我们在实施更严格的学生招聘和选拔过程中取得了重大进展，筛选出有兴趣从事医学或与生物医学研究无关的领域的候选人;越来越多的城市学院MARC学员现在被录取为生物医学博士课程。我们的计划的核心目标仍然是学生的招聘和选拔，以及毕业和准备研究生院。学生将被安置在生物，化学，地球科学和物理系的教师实验室。我们将扩大适当的导师和学员与教师和学生从生物医学教育，生物医学工程和心理学的苏菲戴维斯学校池。我们还将利用纽约城市大学的倡议，扩大科学基础设施;例如，对结构生物学项目感兴趣的受训者可以在新建的纽约结构生物学中心使用最先进的生物分子结构分析仪器，对癌症研究感兴趣的学员将能够利用城市学院与纪念斯隆凯特琳癌症中心合作创造的机会。新的MARC U* 星星计划的实施将使顶尖的理科学生受益，包括受训人员和非受训人员，从而达到加强学院培养理科学生的能力的目标， 以及加强他们在城市学院的研究培训经验。 公共卫生相关性：拟议的MARC U* 星星计划的目标是进一步增加合格的URM本科生谁继续在博士教育的数量。生物医学科学的水平。这将通过增加致力于研究生物现象和疾病的根本基础的生物医学科学家人才库来加强公共卫生。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed MARC U*STAR program is to further increase the number of qualified URM undergraduates who continue their education at the Ph.D. level in the biomedical sciences. The project will consist of activities that represent a coordinated program that includes undergraduate recruitment, extensive research experience, and graduate school preparation. These activities are centered around the College Honors Sequence, coupled with specific courses for the MARC trainees to prepare them for the rigors of postgraduate training. In the previous funding period we made significant progress in implementing a more stringent student recruitment and selection process to screen out candidates interested in pursuing careers in medicine or fields unrelated to biomedical research; increasing numbers of MARC trainees from City College are now being admitted to doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. Core goals of our program remain student recruitment and selection, and advisement and preparation for graduate school. Students will be placed in the laboratories of faculty in the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics. We will expand the pool of appropriate mentors and trainees with faculty and students from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, Biomedical Engineering, and Psychology. We will also take advantage of the initiative by the City University of New York to expand science infrastructure; for example trainees interested in working on projects in structural biology will have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural analyses of biomolecules at the newly constructed New York Structural Biology Center, and trainees interested in cancer research will be able to take advantage of opportunities created by City College's partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The implementation of the new MARC U*STAR program will benefit top science students, both trainees as well as non-trainees, thereby meeting the goals of strengthening the capability of the college to train students in the sciences, and enhancing their research training experience at City College. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The goal of the proposed MARC U*STAR program is to further increase the number of qualified URM undergraduates who continue their education at the Ph.D. level in the biomedical sciences. This will enhance public health by increasing the pool of biomedical scientists working to study the underlying bases of biological phenomena and diseases.