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
• 关键词: Automobile Driving; CCL7 gene; Communities; Critiques; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Face; Feedback; Financial Support; Funding; Goals; Individual; Mission; Population Heterogeneity; Request for Applications; Research; Science; Scientist; Source; Student recruitment; Students; Time; Training; Underrepresented Students; United States; Universities; Washington; Writing; base; college; experience; innovation; next generation; notch protein; programs; success; summer research; underserved community

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项目寻求成为一个更大的全国性努力的一部分，该努力旨在促进 科学研究和科学队伍的多样性。由来自不同国家的个人组成的团队 背景通常比由背景相似的个人组成的团队表现更好。为了美国 各国要保持世界研究的领先地位，就必须实现其内在的巨大科学潜力。 在其多样化的人口中，其中大部分目前在代表不足的人和 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 释放这一科学潜力，并通过这样做有助于改变下一代科学家的面貌。 本申请申请资助我们MARC计划中的十名学员。通过推动卓越和 在研究型教育中的创新，我们的计划的使命是帮助代表不足的学生 在实验室和课堂上取得成功，进入顶级博士和医学博士/博士项目，并在这些项目中脱颖而出。我们 专注于实现这一使命的三个目标：为学生提供一流的研究经验；培训 让他们批判性地思考，有效地写作和谈论科学；并创造一种积极的、个人的、 以及他们在其中茁壮成长的关键科学社区。我们的计划以研究经验为中心 并制定了跨越两年、初级和高级计划的十项活动，并寻求创建一个 支持性社区，学生通过以下方式获得研究和科学演示方面的严格培训 个性化的训练和批判。 我们的MARC项目创建于2008年，在华盛顿占据了一个独特的教育利基 大学。它是唯一一个在学年和学年期间都支持代表人数不足的学生的项目 暑期开展研究。它还包括一个由大学资助的MARC暑期前研究项目 对于刚读完大学一年级的学生，让他们体验研究，通常是第一次 时间，并帮助这些学生在二年级结束时加入MARC项目。正性 学生对MARC项目的反馈说明了它在推动学生成功和制定 代表不足的学生茁壮成长的社区，最近学生申请人数激增导致 通过来自不同大学来源的额外财政支持，项目规模翻了两番。