MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research at Queens College

皇后学院 MARC 本科生学术研究培训

• 批准号: 9064183
• 负责人: ZAHRA ZAKERI
• 金额: $ 31.19万
• 依托单位: QUEENS COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/9064183
• 关键词: Address; CCL7 gene; Career Choice; Discipline; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Faculty; Family; Feedback; Future; Goals; Grant; Growth; Institution; Learning; Mentors; Paper; Performance; Preparation; Prize; Process; Publishing; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Series; Students; Time; Translational Research; Uncertainty; Writing; career; college; design; expectation; experience; flexibility; higher education; improved; innovation; minority student; outreach; planetary Atmosphere; programs; student training; undergraduate student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The long-term goals of the proposed program are to increase the number of minority students entering and successfully completing PhD programs in the Biomedical Sciences and achieving research careers. Toward this aim we have achieved the goals we set from the beginning of our first grant in 2004, graduating 97% with honors, placing 72 % of our MARC students in higher education, placing 36% directly into doctoral programs, publishing 17 papers, and developing programs that have inspired our College and led it to incorporate our innovations into College-wide programs. Our students have won several prizes and been accepted into prestigious institutions. We have nevertheless identified remaining weaknesses in the preparation and growth of our students. The rationale of the proposal is continue the successful mentoring and heavy research involvement of our program, while at the same time addressing the weaknesses, primarily students' doubt in the practicality of a research career path and lack of understanding of the overall expectations for researchers. We intend to improve our performance by first expanding our mentoring to include more facets of a research career to emphasize the many possibilities for a doctoral-level researcher; second, expanding our outreach to the families of the students and more aggressively involving them in the highlights and ceremonies of the MARC experience. Third, we will initiate a "talk across disciplines" in which students will learn how their research relates to questions from other disciplines, in the process creating a more cohesive atmosphere and preparing the students for future flexibility. We will increase our writing and presentation workshops, introduce a research seminar series on Translational Research and one on Careers in Research, and make other adjustments as suggested by formal and informal feedback from our students and faculty. Our administration is pleased with our progress and is eager to see our program expand. The proposed program is designed for 5 years, with 12 trainees per year (approximately 6 juniors and 6 seniors each year).

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议项目的长期目标是增加少数民族学生进入并成功完成生物医学科学博士课程并实现研究职业的人数。为了实现这一目标，我们已经实现了我们从2004年第一笔拨款开始设定的目标，97%的学生以优异的成绩毕业，72%的MARC学生接受高等教育，36%的学生直接进入博士课程，发表了17篇论文，并开发了一些项目，这些项目激励了我们的学院，并将我们的创新纳入了学院范围内的项目。我们的学生多次获奖，并被知名院校录取。尽管如此，我们还是发现了学生在准备和成长方面仍存在的弱点。该提案的基本原理是继续我们项目的成功指导和大量的研究参与，同时解决弱点，主要是学生对研究职业道路的实用性的怀疑和对研究人员总体期望的缺乏理解。我们打算提高我们的表现，首先扩大我们的指导，包括研究生涯的更多方面，以强调博士级研究人员的许多可能性；第二，扩大我们与学生家庭的联系，更积极地让他们参与MARC体验的亮点和仪式。第三，我们将发起“跨学科对话”，让学生了解他们的研究如何与其他学科的问题联系起来，在这个过程中创造一个更有凝聚力的氛围，为学生未来的灵活性做好准备。我们将增加我们的写作和演讲工作坊，介绍