The MARC Program at UCSC

项目摘要 在加州大学圣克鲁斯的MARC计划的主要目标是招募和准备代表性不足 (UR)学生进入生物医学博士课程。这最初是通过将速率提高到 UR本科生参与我们机构的前沿研究。一个重要 我们的MARC计划的一个组成部分是创建一个更大的社区UR和第一代在大学 学生谁确定为生物医学研究人员和谁帮助促进对方对博士水平 毕业生培训。直到今年，这个社区在UCSC包括14 MARC学者和23 由IMSD计划支持的本科生。由于IMSD本科课程已经停止， IMSD研究生培训过渡到T32计划，我们要求为MARC总共26个插槽 计划，使我们能够保持这个更大的本科STEM多样性社区的核心 科学家本培训方案提案的目的是： 1 -为一个更大的26名学生的MARC队列开发一个程序， 我们目前的MARC和IMSD计划的组成部分。该计划将包括招聘， 严格的实验室培训，与教师的安置，和专业发展。挑战将 如何从目前的14名MARC学员中扩大规模，但是， 我们的IMSD计划的成功。该项目的主任Melissa Jurica教授已加入MARC， co-PD，以便她与更大的IMSD本科生群体一起开发的最佳实践可以 被纳入。 2 -确保100%的毕业MARC研究员发展强大的独立研究技能。 我们正从两个角度处理这一挑战。首先，我们将制定一个团队方法， 确保学生在研究独立性方面取得足够的可衡量的进展。二是 将启动一项计划，让所有学生撰写NSF研究生研究奖学金（GRFP） 应用，使他们能够学习的技能，实验设计和granisation。 3 -确保100%的MARC研究员谁被录取到博士课程是有能力的， 坚持到完成。我们正在开发一个项目， 他们在研究生院将面临的社会和职业挑战。MARC学生将联系 与我们的校友导师网络，并从他们学习的社会和职业挑战，以预期 在他们的新环境中。MARC研究员的指导团队和校友网络的成员将 在毕业后仍然可以为他们提供个性化的指导和辅导。

PROJECT SUMMARY The primary goal of the MARC program at UC Santa Cruz is to recruit and prepare underrepresented (UR) students for entry into biomedical PhD programs. This is initially achieved by increasing the rate at which UR undergraduates become involved in cutting-edge research at our institution. An important component of our MARC program is to create a larger community of UR and first-generation-in-college students who identify as biomedical researchers and who help promote each other towards PhD-level graduate training. Until this year, this community at UCSC included the 14 MARC scholars and the 23 undergraduates supported by the IMSD program. As the IMSD undergraduate program has ceased and IMSD graduate training transitioned to a T32 program, we are requesting a total of 26 slots for the MARC program to allow us to maintain the core of this larger community of undergraduate STEM Diversity scientists. The aims of this training program proposal are to: 1 - develop a program for a larger MARC cohort of 26 students that fuses the strongest components of our current MARC and IMSD programs. This program will incorporate recruitment, rigorous laboratory training, placement with faculty, and professional development. The challenges will be in how to scale up from the current 14 MARC trainees, however there are important lessons from the success of our IMSD program. The director of that program, Prof. Melissa Jurica, has joined MARC as co-PD so that best practices that she developed working with the larger IMSD undergraduate cohort can be incorporated. 2 - ensure that 100% of graduating MARC fellows develop strong independent research skills. We are approaching this challenge from two perspectives. First, we will develop a team approach to ensure adequate measurable progress in student development of research independence. Second, we will launch a program to have all students write an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) application so that they can learn the skills of experimental design and grantsmanship. 3 - ensure that 100% of MARC fellows who are admitted into PhD programs are capable of persisting through to completion. We are developing a program to prepare students for the new types of social and professional challenges they will face in graduate school. MARC students will make contact with our alumni mentor network and from them learn the social and professional challenges to anticipate in their new environment. The members of the MARC fellow's mentoring team and alumni network will remain available after graduation to provide them with personalized mentoring and coaching as needed.