Minority Access To Research Careers U*STAR

描述（由申请人提供）：夏威夷大学马诺阿分校是夏威夷大学州立系统10个校区中的旗舰本科和研究校区。种族多样化的学生群体反映了该州的人口，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，以及招收和保留代表性不足群体的学生和教师。这些群体包括菲律宾人、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），MARC U*STAR计划的服务对象正是这些群体。太平洋生物医学研究中心是系统中第三大有组织的研究单位，承担了休斯敦大学大部分的生物医学、生物技术和生物研究工作，20多年来一直是MARC项目的赞助单位。它的部分使命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。美国国立卫生研究院MARC项目的总体目标是增加少数民族学生完成生物医学科学博士学位的人数。UH MARC计划旨在通过提高少数民族本科生的研究、学术和个人准备，从而成功地竞争研究生培训机会，从而实现这一目标。该项目的主要特点是为期两年的研究实习，密集的学术指导，GRE准备，全国科学会议的旅行，以及在美国大陆机构的暑期研究。额外的丰富组件包括研究专题讨论会，教程，动手仪器培训，讲座和研讨会上的道德，职业选择，和科学交流。10名少数族裔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、保护生物学和逆转录病毒学等科学学科的教师导师配对。形成性和总结性评价与方案计划相结合，以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.