The UC Berkeley MARC: Shaping the Next Generation of Scientific Leaders

项目总结/摘要 加州大学伯克利分校（UCB）是世界一流的研究机构，拥有大量的 生物医学科学本科生是少数民族，是第一代大学生， 来自低社会经济背景或残疾人。UCB MARC计划的总体目标 是准备来自这些代表性不足（UR）群体的高度积极性的学生申请并成功获得博士学位。 计划，帮助解决国家对多元化科学劳动力的需求。该计划将解决 这些障碍阻碍了UR学生使用三种策略追求研究事业。首先，该计划将 将学生安排在由以科学严谨性和本科生指导技能而闻名的PI运行的实验室中。二是 该计划将提供一系列的科学和专业发展讲习班，期刊俱乐部和研究 研讨会，将提高学员的书面和口头沟通技巧，他们的能力，要求重要的 科学问题，并设计严格的实验来解决这些问题，并批判性地评估 科学发现。第三，该计划将建立一个学生和导师谁将相互支持， 帮助学员实现职业目标。总之，这些策略将提高自我效能和科学 培养一批坚韧不拔、严谨有为的青年科学家。的 该计划将采用评估和评估工具，以确保这些战略成功地实现 它的目标，并提供灵活性，以改善该计划，因为它的演变。 该计划将支持UR大三和大四的学生，打算攻读博士学位。在生物医学 以理工科为重在这五年的赠款过程中，我们建议支持78 MARC学者。我们的目标是让 > 75%的MARC学者被录取为博士从UCB毕业两年内的课程。的 拟议的MARC计划还将作为寻求增加多样性和支持 来自UR团体的本科生在研究生涯中的成功，并与项目分享最佳实践 有重叠的目标。

Project Summary/Abstract The University of California, Berkeley (UCB) is a world-class research institution with a large number of biomedical science undergraduates who are underrepresented minority, are first-generation college students, come from low-socio-economic backgrounds or are disabled. The overarching goal of the UCB MARC program is to prepare highly motivated students from these underrepresented (UR) groups to apply and succeed in Ph.D. programs, helping to address the nation's need for a diverse scientific workforce. The program will address barriers that deter UR students from pursuing research careers using three strategies. First, the program will place students in labs run by PIs known for their scientific rigor and undergraduate mentoring skills. Second, the program will provide a series of scientific and professional development workshops, journal clubs and research seminars that will enhance the trainees' written and oral communication skills, their ability to ask important scientific questions and to design rigorous experiments to address these questions, and to critically evaluate the scientific findings. Third, the program will build a cohort of students and mentors who will support each other and help the trainees achieve their career goals. Together, these strategies will enhance the self-efficacy and science identity of the trainees and produce a group of gritty and rigorous young scientists with promising futures. The program will engage evaluation and assessment tools to ensure that these strategies are successful in achieving the its goals and to provide the flexibility to improve the program as it evolves. The program will support UR junior and senior students with an intention to pursue a Ph.D. in the biomedical sciences. Over the course of this five-year grant, we propose to support 78 MARC Scholars. Our goal is to have >75% of MARC Scholars to matriculate into Ph.D. programs within two years of graduation from UCB. The proposed MARC Program will also serve as a model for programs seeking to increase diversity and support the success of undergraduate students from UR groups in research careers and share best practices with programs that have overlapping goals.