UC Riverside MARC U* Star Undergraduate Research Program

描述（由申请人提供）：加州大学河滨分校是美国最多样化的校园之一，位于美国发展最快、最多样化的地区之一。加州大学洛杉矶分校的大部分本科生都来自这个地区。因此，有一个广泛的学生基础，从中选择和促进对生物医学相关科学和科学研究事业的兴趣。加州大学河滨分校MARC U*项目的总体目标是增加攻读生物医学相关科学博士学位和研究生涯的本科少数民族学生的数量。MARC U*计划的可衡量目标是在毕业后三年内将少数民族学生进入博士课程的人数增加100%。总体机构目标是促进本科研究，并从UCR培养大量女性和代表性不足的少数民族科学家。该补助金包括marc前发展计划，以增加合格的受训人员。MARC U*培训补助金的目标如下：1}增加有资格成为MARC U*培训生的少数民族学生数量，方法是将UCR低级别少数民族科学专业在入门生物学中达到3.0 GPA的比例从16%提高25%或更高；2)增加申请MARC U*培训计划的合格学生人数，将申请MARC U*培训计划的合格少数民族学生人数增加一倍，从平均7人增加到至少14人；3)通过达到一个稳定的状态，即高达100%的受训者将有竞争力进入博士课程（以GRE、GPA和研究经验为衡量标准），使MARC U*受训者在研究生院具有竞争力并取得成功；4}鼓励MARC U*学员申请并从博士项目毕业，申请并被博士研究项目录取的MARC U*学员比例提高到100%。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of California at Riverside is one of the most diverse campuses and is located in one of the most rapidly growing and diverse regions of the United States. Most of the undergraduate students at UCR come from this region. Thus there is a broad base of students from which to select and promote interest in the biomedically-related sciences and a research career in the sciences. The Overall Goal of the MARC U* Program at the University of California Riverside is to increase the number of undergraduate minority students pursuing a Ph.D. degree and a research career in the biomedically-related sciences. The Measurable Objective of the MARC U* Program is to increase the number of minority students going into Ph.D. Programs by up to 100% within three years of graduation. The Overall Institutional Goal is to promote undergraduate research and to produce a large number of women and under-represented minority scientists from UCR. This grant includes a pre-MARC Development Program to increase the eligible pool of Trainees. The goals of the MARC U* Training grant are the following: 1} to increase the pool of minority students eligible to become MARC U* trainees by increasing the fraction of lower division minority science majors at UCR attaining a GPA of 3.0 by 25% or higher in Introductory Biology by 25% from a basis of 16%; 2) increase the number of qualified students applying to the MARC U* Training Program by doubling the number of qualified minority students who apply to the MARC U* Training Program from an average of 7 to at least 14; 3) prepare MARC U* Trainees to become competitive for admission to and success in graduate school by achieving a steady state wherein up to 100% of the Trainees will be competitive for admission into a PhD program as measured by GRE, GPA and research experience; 4} encourage MARC U* Trainees to apply to and graduate from PhD programs by increasing up to 100% MARC U* Trainees who apply to and are accepted into PhD research programs.