RIO PIEDRAS MARC U*STAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

描述(由申请者提供)：里约皮德拉斯校区拟议的MARC U*STAR项目旨在通过增加进入著名研究生项目的学员数量以及旨在确保更多学员能够进入国家科学界主流的新战略，来改进本已堪称典范的项目。为此，该方案将继续招收才华横溢的学生，并为他们提供有指导的校内研究体验，其中包括一个明确的项目，该项目将产生将在科学会议上提交或出版的结果，并将在Testina中进行描述。重点还将放在适当的暑期研究，在外部地点，咨询和协助研究生院的申请。为了实现这些目标，它将继续为34名受训人员寻找职位。它将与招募其前受训人员的研究主管建立直接联系，以便获得对研究培训战略的反馈。它将为受训人员提供讲习班，以提高他们的沟通技能，特别是英语写作，并将强调他们参加技术讲习班。该方案还寻求资金，以加快初级生物和数学课程的发展，并进一步改进化学课程。这些活动不仅将提高所有生物和化学专业的留校率，缩短毕业时间，而且在五年内应该会增加至少100名符合MARC资格的新兴大三学生。将包括一系列科学推广活动，以引导更多的人进入生物医学研究的职业生涯。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The proposed MARC U*STAR Program at the Rio Piedras Campus seeks to improve an already exemplary program by increasing the number of trainees who enter prestigious graduate programs and with new strategies designed to ensure that more of its trainees will be in positions to enter into the mainstream of the nation's scientific community. To this end, the Program will continue to recruit highly talented students and provide them with a mentored intramural research experience that includes a well-defined project that leads to results which will be presented at scientific meetings or published and which will be described in a tesina. Emphasis will also be placed on an appropriate summer research at an external site, counseling and assistance in graduate school applications. In order to meet these objectives it will continue to seek positions for 34 trainees. It will establish direct communications with research supervisors who have recruited its ex-trainees in order to gain feedback on research training strategies. It will provide its trainees with workshops that improve their communications skills, particularly English writing, and will emphasize their participation in technical workshops. The Program also seeks funding to accelerate the development of the entry level Biology and Mathematics courses and to further improve those in Chemistry. These activities will not only increase the retention rate and reduce the time to graduation of all Biology and Chemistry majors, but in five years should increase the pool of MARC eligible rising Juniors by at least a 100 students. A series of science promotions will be included in order to direct more of these into careers into biomedical research.