MARC Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program

提出的MARC U-STAR计划的目标是进一步增加合格的 未被充分代表的本科生继续攻读生物医学博士学位 和行为科学。该项目将由代表协调方案的活动组成 这包括本科生招聘、广泛的研究经验和研究生院。 准备工作。这些活动围绕大学荣誉序列展开，再加上 为MARC学员提供专门的课程，使他们为严酷的研究生培训做好准备。在 在之前的资助期间，我们在实施更严格的学生方面取得了重大进展 招聘和遴选程序筛选有兴趣从事职业生涯的候选人 医学或与生物医学研究无关的领域；来自城市的MARC学员数量不断增加 大学现在正在进入并完成生物医学科学的博士课程。核心目标 我们计划的内容仍然是招生和选拔，以及咨询和准备 研究生院。我们将招收学生，让他们进入学院的实验室。 生物、生物医学工程、化学和生物化学、地球和大气系 科学、物理和心理学；导师池中还包括索菲·戴维斯学院的教职员工 生物医学教育学院。学生将被任命为他们本科最后两年的学生 学习并将参与有指导的独立研究，定期与他们的 导师和MARC项目主任和顾问委员会，并将参加专业 发展研讨会。我们还将利用纽约市立大学的倡议 扩大科学基础设施；例如，现在城市上有两座新的科学大楼 大学校园，对结构生物学项目感兴趣的实习生可以访问 纽约结构研究所用于生物分子结构分析的最先进仪器 位于CCNY校园的生物中心，以及对癌症研究感兴趣的学员能够参加 城市学院与纪念斯隆·凯特林合作创造的机会优势 癌症中心。新MARC U-STAR计划的实施将使顶尖科学受益 学员，包括学员和非学员，从而达到加强 学院培养学生理科能力，加强学生科研能力培养 在城市学院的经历。

The goal of the proposed MARC U-STAR program is to further increase the number of qualified underrepresented undergraduates who continue their education at the Ph.D. level in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. The project will consist of activities that represent a coordinated program that includes undergraduate recruitment, extensive research experience, and graduate school preparation. These activities are centered around the College Honors Sequence, coupled with specific courses for the MARC trainees to prepare them for the rigors of postgraduate training. In the previous funding period we made significant progress in implementing a more stringent student recruitment and selection process to screen out candidates interested in pursuing careers in medicine or fields unrelated to biomedical research; increasing numbers of MARC trainees from City College are now entering and completing doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. Core goals of our program remain student recruitment and selection, and advisement and preparation for graduate school. We will recruit students for placement into the laboratories of faculty in the departments of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth & Atmospheric Science, Physics, and Psychology; the pool of mentors also includes faculty from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. Students will be appointed for their final 2 years of undergraduate study and will engage in mentored independent research, have regular advising meetings with their mentor and the MARC program director and advisory committee, and will participate in professional development seminars. We will also take advantage of initiatives by the City University of New York to expand science infrastructure; for example there are now two new science buildings on the City College campus, trainees interested in working on projects in structural biology have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural analyses of biomolecules at the New York Structural Biology Center on the CCNY campus, and trainees interested in cancer research are able to take advantage of opportunities created by City College's partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The implementation of the new MARC U-STAR program will benefit top science students, both trainees as well as non-trainees, thereby meeting the goals of strengthening the capability of the college to train students in the sciences, and enhancing their research training experience at City College.