MINORITY HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT RESEARCH APPRENTICE PROGRAM

RCMI倡议的头五年见证了该中心的创建 为研究城市发展的细胞和分子基础 上大学。该中心建立在书院现有优势的基础上 RCMI支持的地区，通过增加八个新的 生物系的教职员工(其中三人是黑人) 和化学，以及纽约州立大学医学院的七名新教员。确实有 现在，参加该中心的25名研究人员分成三个科学小组 领域--生物分子结构和功能、基因表达和 调节，以及细胞和生物体的功能。主要设备采购和 中央设施的建立进一步加强了内部活动 中心。 学院，历史上致力于学术卓越和博大精深 Access为我们的学生提供了机会，其中60%以上是黑人和西班牙裔， 发展机遇得天独厚。我们的教职员工提供了榜样 向本科生和研究生颁发科学卓越和成就奖 学生都一样。 该中心现在提议将科学素养提升到一个新的水平 并利用这种地位竭尽全力地识别和吸引 少数民族本科生和研究生数量不断增加。 要做到这一点，该中心需要在关键领域招聘更多的教师， 购置主要设备，提供新的技术支持人员， 包括博士后研究员和技术人员，以维护和 操作日益先进的研究设备。 除了主要的科学领域，中心的独特技能 教职员工正被召集起来从事几个与艾滋病有关的项目 关于艾滋病相关生物肺孢子虫的特性 以及对艾滋病毒病毒本身的免疫反应。 预计RCMI教职员工的增加包括一名高级分子 生物学家担任项目总监、X射线结晶学家、 生物分子的物理特征方面的专家，一种分子 遗传学家和神经生物学家。这些科学家将提供广度 这将补充现有的领域。主要设备采购 包括自动测序仪和聚合酶链式反应加热器 塞克莱尔。

The first five years of the RCMI initiative saw the creation of the Center for the Study of the Cellular and Molecular Basis of Development at City College. The Center, built on the existing strengths of the College in the RCMI-supported areas, was enriched by the addition of eight new faculty members (three of whom are Black) in the Departments of Biology and Chemistry and seven new faculty in the CUNY Medical School. There are now 25 researchers participating in the Center grouped in three scientific areas--Biomolecular Structure and Function, Gene Expression and Regulation, and Cell and Organism Function. Major equipment purchases and the creation of central facilities further enhanced the activity within the Center. The College, with a historic commitment to academic excellence and broad access, offers our students, more than 60% of whom are Black and Hispanic, unique opportunities for development. Our faculty provides role models for scientific excellence and achievement to under-graduates and graduate students alike. The Center now proposes to move to a new level of scientific attainment and to use that status in a strenuous effort to identify and attract increasing numbers of minority undergraduate and graduate students. To do this, the Center needs to hire additional faculty in key areas, acquire major equipment and provide new technical support personnel, including post-doctoral research fellows and technicians to maintain and operate the increasingly sophisticated state-of-the research equipment. In addition to the main scientific areas, the unique skills of Center faculty are being marshalled to pursue several AIDS-related projects concerning the properties of the AIDS-related organism Pneumocystis carinii and concerning the immunological response to the HIV virus itself. Projected additions to the RCMI faculty include a senior molecular biologist to serve as Project Director, an X-ray crystallographer, a specialist in physical characterization of biomolecules, a molecular geneticist and a neurobiologist. These scientists will provide breadth that will complement the existing areas. Major equipment purchases include an automatic sequencer and a polymerase chain reaction thermal cycler.