MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research at Queens College

我们建议加强和优化我们在皇后区成功启动的MARC计划 四年前被指控。皇后学院是美国最大的城市大学之一的高级学院。 这座城市位于乡村，位于非常多样化的皇后区。我们已经开发了一个程序， 通过强调实验室实践经验和对学生的密切监督和建议， 根据追求或计划追求职业生涯的学生比例，LAS被证明是成功的 生物医学研究。基于对我们结果的持续评估，我们修改了最初的 在实现我们可衡量的目标方面取得最佳成功的目标和策略。我们建议 继续优化1)我们的研究基础研讨会，2)我们的研究经验，包括 在研究型大学的一个夏天；3)我们的密集建议和监测系统；4)我们的 坚持学生参加研究座谈会并在同龄人面前发表演讲；以及5) 我们培养MARC学生与其他研究型学生之间的互动。一种反映我们的 到目前为止，皇后学院的其他项目成功地采用了我们的创新 张贴日和评估。在我们的第二个五年周期中，我们计划提高对我们的 计划，从而通过扩大广告和外展，扩大我们从中抽出的学生人数 课程，以及一个非常成功的“科学初学者”课程。我们还将增加金融 通过新的大学资助为Marc预科学生提供激励，扩大我们的“卓越家教” 计划，建立MARC-Pre-MARC伙伴系统。后一项倡议将在Marc之前 学生更快地进入实验室，将为他们提供同行支持，并将给我们的MARC 学生在指导方面的经验。在我们提议的第二个周期中，我们将保持和扩大 我们广泛的评估和文档工作，使我们能够判断我们的计划在 招生条款和学生成绩以及我们对学院的整体影响。我们的头四年 在安排学生、在大会上获奖、发表论文或在 准备工作，以及对我们学院和分部的影响。使用我们结果评估的结果， 我们计划继续优化我们的培训计划，及其对我们学院和周围环境的影响 社区。 相关性(请参阅说明)： 这项提议旨在增加生物医学科学研究人员的数量 来自代表不足的少数族裔。我们从中抽出的水池是一个主要的城市区域，所以 我们项目的毕业生可能会通过贡献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。

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.