MARC U-STAR PROGRAM AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

圣路易斯华盛顿大学 MARC U-STAR 项目

• 批准号: 10401930
• 负责人: James Benjamin Skeath
• 金额: $ 42.61万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10401930
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Project Summary The Washington University MARC U-STAR Program seeks to be part of a larger national effort that promotes diversity in scientific research and the scientific workforce. Teams composed of individuals from diverse backgrounds typically outperform teams composed of individuals from similar backgrounds. For the United States to remain the worldwide leader in research, it must realize the tremendous scientific potential inherent within its diverse population, much of which currently lies untapped within the underrepresented and underserved communities. By focusing on research, scientific presentation, and community, our program seeks to unlock this scientific potential, and in doing so help change the face of the next generation of scientists. This application requests funds to support ten trainees in our MARC Program. By driving excellence and innovation in research-based education, our program's mission is to help underrepresented students succeed in the lab and classroom, matriculate into top PhD and MD/PhD programs, and excel in them. We focus on three goals to achieve this mission: to provide students top-notch research experiences; to train them to think critically and to write and speak effectively about science; and to create a positive, personal, and critical scientific community in which they thrive. We center our program around the research experience and have developed ten activities that span the two-year, junior- and senior-level program and seek to create a supportive community in which students obtain rigorous training in research and scientific presentation via individualized training and critique. Our MARC Program, which was created in 2008, occupies a unique educational niche within Washington University. It is the only program that supports underrepresented students during both the academic year and summer to carry out research. It also incorporates a university-funded, Pre-MARC summer research program for students who just completed their first-year in college to allow them to experience research, often for the first time, and to help recruit these students into the MARC Program at the end of their sophomore year. Positive student feedback on the MARC program illustrates its importance in driving student success and developing a community in which underrepresented students thrive, with a recent surge in student applications leading to a quadrupling in program size made possible through additional financial support from diverse university sources.

项目摘要 华盛顿大学MARC U-Star计划旨在成为更大的国家努力的一部分，该努力促进 科学研究和科学劳动力的多样性。由来自不同的个人组成的团队 背景通常优于由来自类似背景的个人组成的团队。为了曼联 国家要成为研究的全球领导者，它必须实现固有的巨大科学潜力 在其多样化的人群中，目前许多目前尚未限制在代表性不足和 服务不足的社区。通过专注于研究，科学演示和社区，我们的计划寻求 释放这种科学潜力，并这样做有助于改变下一代科学家的面貌。 该申请要求资金在我们的MARC计划中支持十名受训者。通过推动卓越和 基于研究教育的创新，我们计划的使命是帮助代表性不足的学生 在实验室和教室中取得成功，攻入顶级博士学位和医学博士学位课程，并在其中出色。我们 专注于实现这一任务的三个目标：为学生提供一流的研究经验；训练 他们批判性思考，并有效地谈论科学；并创建一个积极的个人， 以及他们壮成长的重要科学界。我们以研究经验为中心 并开发了跨越两年初级和高级课程的十项活动，并试图创建一个 支持社区，学生通过在研究和科学演讲中进行严格的培训 个性化的培训和批评。 我们的MARC计划成立于2008年，在华盛顿占据了独特的教育利基市场 大学。这是在学年和 夏天进行研究。它还结合了一项由大学资助的，马克的夏季研究计划 对于刚完成大学一年级以允许他们进行研究的学生，通常是第一个 时间，并在大二年结束时帮助招募这些学生参加MARC计划。积极的 学生对MARC计划的反馈说明了其在推动学生成功和发展的重要性 人类代表不足的学生蓬勃发展的社区，最新的学生申请激增了 通过不同大学资料来源的额外财务支持，计划规模的四倍增加使得成为可能。