The MARC Program at UCSC

项目总结 加州大学圣克鲁斯分校MARC计划的主要目标是招募和准备代表人数不足的人 (UR)进入生物医学博士课程的学生。这最初是通过将比率提高到 其中UR本科生将参与我们机构的尖端研究。一个重要的 我们MARC计划的组成部分是创建一个更大的UR和大学第一代社区 自认为是生物医学研究人员的学生，并帮助彼此提升到博士水平 研究生培训。直到今年，加州大学圣迭戈分校的这个社区包括14名MARC学者和23名 国际管理发展学院项目资助的本科生。由于国际管理发展学院的本科生课程已经停止， IMSD研究生培训过渡到T32计划，我们要求MARC总共26个名额 计划使我们能够保持这个更大的本科生STEM多样性社区的核心 科学家。这项培训计划提案的目的是： 1-为26名MARC学生制定一个更大的计划，融合最强大的学生 我们当前MARC和IMSD项目的组成部分。这一计划将包括招聘， 严格的实验室培训、教师安置和专业发展。挑战将是 如何从目前的14名MARC实习生扩大规模，然而，从 我们的国际管理发展学院项目取得了成功。该项目的负责人梅丽莎·尤里卡教授已经加入了MARC 共同PD，以便她与更大的IMSD本科生队列合作开发的最佳实践可以 被纳入公司。 2-确保100%毕业的MARC研究员发展强大的独立研究技能。 我们从两个角度来应对这一挑战。首先，我们将开发一种团队方法来 确保在学生研究独立性的发展方面取得足够的可衡量的进展。第二，我们 将启动一项计划，让所有学生撰写NSF研究生研究奖学金(GRFP) 应用程序，这样他们就可以学习实验设计和实验技能。 确保100%被博士项目录取的MARC研究员有能力 坚持到底。我们正在开发一项计划，让学生为新的类型做好准备 他们在研究生院将面临的社会和职业挑战。MARC学生将与 通过我们的校友导师网络，并从他们那里了解到要预见的社会和职业挑战 在他们的新环境中。Marc Follow导师团队和校友网络的成员将 毕业后留下来，根据需要为他们提供个性化的指导和指导。

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.