Minority Access To Research Careers U*STAR

描述(由申请者提供)：夏威夷大学马诺阿分校是夏威夷州立大学10个校区的旗舰本科生和研究校园。族裔多元化的学生人口反映了国家人口，事实上，没有多数群体。该机构的使命和目标强调教育公平、多样性，以及招收和留住代表性不足群体的学生和教职员工。这些人包括菲律宾人、夏威夷人和太平洋岛民(萨摩亚人、汤加人、密克罗尼西亚人、查莫罗人)，正是这些群体得到了MARC U*STAR计划的服务。太平洋生物医学研究中心是该系统中第三大有组织的研究单位，拥有密歇根大学大部分生物医学、生物技术和生物学研究，20多年来一直是MARC计划的赞助单位。其使命的一部分是对代表性不足的本科生和研究生、博士后研究员和教职员工进行研究培训。NIH Marc计划的总体目标是增加完成博士学位并在生物医学科学领域就业的少数族裔学生的数量。UH MARC计划旨在通过加强精选的、荣誉级别的少数族裔本科生的研究、学术和个人准备来实现这一目标，以成功竞争研究生培训机会。该项目的主要特点是为期两年的研究实习、密集的学术咨询、GRE准备、参加国家科学会议以及在美国大陆机构进行暑期研究。其他丰富内容包括研究研讨会、教程、实际操作仪器培训，以及关于伦理、职业选择和科学交流的讲座和研讨会。十名少数民族本科生将与分子生物学、癌症研究、细胞生物学、神经生物学、心理学、微生物学、动物学、生殖生物学、保护生物学和反病毒学等科学学科的教师进行匹配。形成性和总结性评估与方案计划相结合，用于评估拟议培训的所有组成部分的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Hawaii at Manoa is the flagship undergraduate and research campus of the 10-campus University of Hawaii State-wide system. The ethnically diverse student population reflects the State population, and, in fact, there is no majority group. The institution's mission and goals emphasize educational equity, diversity, and the recruitment and retention of students and faculty of under-represented groups. These include Filipino, Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (Samoan, Tongan, Micronesian, Chamorro), and it is these groups that are served by the MARC U*STAR Program. The Pacific Biomedical Research Center, the third largest organized research unit in the system, houses the majority of UH's biomedical, biotech, and biological research and has been the sponsoring unit for the MARC Program for more than 20 years. Part of its mission is the research training of under-represented undergraduate and graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and faculty. The overall goal of the NIH MARC Program is to increase the number of minority students who complete Ph.D.s leading to careers in biomedical sciences. The UH MARC Program seeks to accomplish that goal by increasing the research, academic, and personal preparedness of selected, honors-caliber, minority undergraduates to successfully compete for graduate training opportunities. The major features of the program are a two-year research internship, intensive academic advising, GRE preparation, travel to national scientific meetings, and summer research at a US Mainland institution. Additional enrichment components include research symposia, tutorials, hands-on instrumentation training, and lectures and workshops on ethics, career options, and scientific communication. Ten minority undergraduates will be matched with faculty mentors in scientific disciplines such as Molecular Biology, Cancer Research, Cell Biology, Neurobiology, Psychology, Microbiology, Zoology, Reproductive Biology, Conservation Biology, and Retrovirology. Formative and summative evaluation is integrated with the program plan for assessment of the impact of all components of the proposed training.