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: 8475613
• 负责人: ZAHRA ZAKERI
• 金额: $ 39.26万
• 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/8475613
• 关键词: Adoption; Advertising; Awareness; Basic Science; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Communities; Country; Documentation; Educational workshop; Fostering; Goals; Hand; Instruction; 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; success; undergraduate student

We propose to enhance and optimize the MARC program that we successfully launched at Queens ollege 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, las 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 1 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. RELEVANCE (See instructions): 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.

我们建议加强和优化我们在皇后区成功推出的MARC计划 四年前的一次。皇后学院是美国最大的城市大学之一的高级学院。 它坐落在一个非常多样化的皇后区。我们开发了一个程序， 通过强调实践实验室经验和密切监督和学生的学习， 根据正在从事或计划从事以下职业的学生的比例，证明劳工会计制度是成功的 生物医学研究根据对我们结果的持续评估，我们修改了最初的 目标和策略，以实现我们可衡量的目标的最佳成功。我们建议 继续优化1）我们的研究基础知识研讨会，2）我们的研究经验，包括 在研究型大学的一个夏天; 3）我们的密集监测和监控系统; 4）我们的 坚持学生参加研究座谈会，并在同龄人面前做报告; 5） 促进MARC学生与其他研究生之间的互动。一个反映我们 到目前为止，皇后学院的其他项目采用了我们的创新， 海报日和评估。在我们的第二个五年周期，我们计划提高对我们的 计划，从而从我们吸引的学生池的大小，通过扩大广告和推广 课程以及非常成功的“初学者科学”课程。我们还将增加财政 通过新的学院补贴激励MARC前学生，扩大我们的“卓越辅导” 程序，建立MARC-前MARC伙伴系统。这后一项举措将获得前MARC 学生进入实验室更快，将为他们提供同行支持，并将给予我们的MARC 学生在辅导方面的经验。在我们提议的第二个周期中，我们将维持和扩大 我们广泛的评估和文件的努力，使我们能够判断我们的计划的影响， 招聘和学生的成果，以及我们对学院的整体影响方面。我们的头四年 在学生安置方面取得了成功，在大会上获奖，发表论文或在 准备，并对我们的学院和部门的影响。利用我们的成果评估结果， 我们计划继续优化我们的培训计划，以及它对我们学院和周围环境的影响。 社区 相关性（参见说明）： 这项建议旨在增加生物医学科学研究人员的数量， 代表性不足的少数民族。我们从一个主要的城市地区抽取样本， 我们计划的毕业生可能会通过增加研究人员的数量来回报我们的投资， 该地区的主要大学和医学院。