MARC U*STAR AT SUNY OLD WESTBURY

描述(由申请人提供)：这是一份续签申请，旨在继续在老韦斯特伯里的纽约州立大学学院进行MARC-U*STAR项目。该项目的总体目标是提高未被充分代表的少数民族学生的数量和质量，这些学生将寻求生物医学研究的职业。理由是，生物医学科学家中仍然缺乏少数族裔，在生物医学科学博士学位的培训项目中也是如此。此外，虽然老韦斯特伯里多年来一直有解决这一问题的研究和培训计划，但在此计划之前，生物医学培训活动集中在相对有限的神经科学领域。因此，该计划既寻求增加对未被充分代表的少数族裔学生的培训机会，又寻求使他们多样化，将与生物医学科学相关的其他学科包括在内。此续期申请旨在继续这些活动。具体地说，我们建议继续实施U*STAR荣誉计划，该计划旨在实现以下具体和可衡量的目标：(1)将每年参加主要研究密集型机构暑期研究的MARC学生人数增加约33%。(2)扩大现有校园培训经验的范围，包括至少三个新的生物医学科学分支学科。(3)将攻读博士学位的少数族裔化学专业毕业生的四年制总数增加一倍。(4)将未被充分代表的少数族裔生物学毕业生每年攻读博士学位的人数增加到至少2人。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a renewal application that seeks to continue the MARC-U*STAR program at SUNY College at Old Westbury. The overall goal of the program is to increase the number and quality of underrepresented minority students who will seek careers in biomedical research. The rationale is that there continues to be a shortage of minorities among biomedical scientists and in training programs leading to doctoral degrees in the biomedical sciences. Further, while Old Westbury has had both research and training programs in place for many years that address this problem, prior to this program biomedical training activities were focused in the relatively limited area of the neurosciences. The program therefore has sought to both increase training opportunities for underrepresented minority students and to diversify them to include other disciplines relevant to the biomedical sciences. This renewal application seeks to continue these activities. Specifically we propose to continue the U*STAR honors program which is designed to achieve the following specific and measurable objectives: (1) To increase by approximately 33% the number of MARC students per year participating in summer research at major research-intensive institutions. (2) To broaden the range of available on-campus training experiences to include at least three new biomedical sciences sub-disciplines. (3) To double the four-year total of underrepresented minority chemistry graduates who will pursue Ph.D. degrees. (4) To increase the number of underrepresented minority biology graduates who will pursue Ph.D. degrees to at least 2 per year.