RIO PIEDRAS MARC U*STAR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

描述（由申请人提供）：里约热内卢Piedras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受训者数量，并采用旨在确保更多受训者进入国家科学界主流的新策略，来改进已经成为典范的项目。为此，该计划将继续招收有才华的学生，并为他们提供指导的校内研究经验，包括一个明确定义的项目，该项目的结果将在科学会议上展示或发表，并将在论文中描述。重点也将放在适当的暑期研究在外部网站，咨询和研究生院申请的援助。为了实现这些目标，它将继续为34名受训人员寻找职位。它将与征聘其前受训人员的研究主管建立直接联系，以便获得关于研究培训战略的反馈。它将为受训者提供讲习班，提高他们的通讯技巧，特别是英语写作，并将强调他们参加技术讲习班。该计划还寻求资金，以加速入门级生物和数学课程的发展，并进一步改善化学课程。这些活动不仅会提高保留率，缩短所有生物和化学专业的毕业时间，而且在五年内应该会增加至少100名符合MARC资格的大三学生。一系列的科学推广活动将包括在内，以引导更多的这些人进入生物医学研究领域。

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.