MAXIMIZING THE QUALITY OF FUTURE GRADUATE STUDIES FOR UPR-RIO PIEDRAS MARC U*STAR TRAINEES

UPR Río Piedras校区正在向该研究所寻求一年的补充资金， 普通医学科学（NIGMS）继续培养13名MARC U-STAR本科生 主修化学和生物学的学生，他们都将在六月份完成学士学位。 2021年，并继续在美国顶尖大学攻读博士或MD/博士学位。因为 美国国立卫生研究院关于像我们这样的机构的MARC项目的新指南， 计划，经过40年的成功培训未来的生物医学研究人员，定于 将于2020年5月31日终止。此时，十三名本科生将半途而废 作为未来的生物医学研究人员进行培训。我们的目标是让这13名学生 成功完成生物医学研究培训，获得学士学位毕业，并继续 按计划毕业。所有这些本科生都是我们最优秀的本科生 在NIH-NIGMS的支持下已经取得了相当大的研究成果。的 该计划将继续需要一个严格的校内经验，涉及完成 一个具体的项目和一篇本科论文。还需要外部经验 因为他们拓宽了研究兴趣，提高了英语技能，并与 未来的研究生课程这些活动包括更好地利用夏季 经验，申请研究生课程更适合学生的需求，并提供 学生与国家的最先进的仪器，他们将在研究生工作中使用的经验。

The UPR Río Piedras campus, is soliciting a one year supplemental funding from the Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to continue the training of 13 MARC U-STAR undergraduate students majoring in chemistry and biology who are all expected to finish their BS degrees in June 2021 and are continuing either to PhD or MD/PhD careers at top stateside universities. Because of the new NIH guidelines on the MARC programs for institutions like ours, the UPR-RP MARC program, after 40 years of successful training of future biomedical researchers, is scheduled to be terminated on May 31, 2020. At this time, thirteen undergraduate students will be left half-way thorough their training as future biomedical researchers. Our aim is for these thirteen students to successfully finish their biomedical research training, graduate with a BS degree, and continue to graduate school as planned. All these undergraduate students are among our top undergraduates with considerable research accomplishments already thanks to NIH-NIGMS support. The program will continue to require a rigorous intramural experience that involves the completion of a specific project and an undergraduate dissertation. External experiences will also be required because they broaden research interests, improve English skills, and establish contacts with future graduate programs. The activities include, among others, making better use of summer experiences, applying to graduate programs more suited to the student needs and provide students with experiences on state of the art instrumentation, which they will use in graduate work.