MARC U*STAR Research Training Program at Dominguez Hills

描述(由申请人提供)：加州州立大学的使命是教育和准备加州的劳动力和顶尖学生担任领导职位。在加州州立大学，多明格斯·希尔斯的自然和行为科学系包括生物化学/化学、生物学、物理学、心理学和社会学，为科学工作者做好准备，并专注于开发学生在生物医学和行为科学领域的研究潜力。由于南加州大学是一家少数族裔和西班牙裔服务机构，我们准备了较高比例的代表性不足的少数族裔学生进入科学和生物医学工作大军。拟议的MARC计划将使我们代表性不足的学生参与活动和机会，以提高他们进入排名靠前的博士课程的竞争力。我们的目标和目的旨在影响MARC实习生、最终有资格获得MARC实习生资格的MARC预科学生，以及其他主修生物医学和行为科学的学生。这些目标的实现将使MARC学生为进入高选择性的博士课程做好准备，为MARC预科学生获得MARC资格做好准备，并加强CSUDH的研究培训能力，从而为理科专业学生在生物医学和行为研究方面的研究生水平的工作和/或职业生涯做好准备。我们预计，在资助周期结束时，我们将增加南加州州立大学理科学生的数量，特别是代表不足的少数族裔学生，他们申请并获得竞争激烈的博士课程的录取。在此过程中，这些学生将通过在专业会议上展示他们的工作并在同行评议的科学期刊上发表文章，在本科阶段成为多产的科学家。我们的评估过程将表明，我们将为未被充分代表的少数族裔学生的发展做出贡献，我们的计划已将他们培养成我国的生物医学和科学劳动力。 公共卫生相关声明：南加州大学医学院的MARC USTAR培训计划将增加未被充分代表的少数族裔学生进入博士课程的数量，从而导致生物医学和行为科学的研究生涯。这些未来的科学家将增加我们国家的生物医学劳动力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The mission of the California State University is to educate and prepare California's workforce and prime students for leadership positions. At California State University, Dominguez Hills the departments in the natural and behavioral sciences including biochemistry/chemistry, biology, physics, psychology and sociology, prepare the scientific workforce and are centered on developing their students' potential for research careers in biomedical and behavioral science. Since CSUDH is a minority and Hispanic serving institution, we prepare a high percentage of underrepresented minority students to enter the scientific and biomedical workforce. The proposed MARC program will engage our underrepresented students in activities and opportunities to increase their competitiveness to enter highly ranked PhD programs. Our goals and objectives are designed to affect MARC trainees, pre-MARC students who will eventually become eligible for a MARC traineeship, and other students majoring in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. Achievement of the goals and objectives will prepare MARC students to enter highly selective PhD programs, pre-MARC students to become MARC eligible and strengthen the research training capacity at CSUDH thereby providing opportunities to prepare science majors for graduate level work and/or careers in biomedical and behavioral research. We project that at the end of the funding cycle we will have increased the number of CSUDH science students, especially underrepresented minority students, who apply for and gain acceptance into highly competitive PhD programs. Along the way, these students will become productive scientists as undergraduates by presenting their work at professional conferences and publishing in peer reviewed scientific journals. Our evaluation process will demonstrate that we will have contributed to the development of underrepresented minority students and that our program has fostered them into our Nation's biomedical and scientific workforce. Public Health Relevance Statement: The MARC USTAR training program at CSUDH will increase the numbers of underrepresented minority students entering PhD programs leading to research careers in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. These future scientists will add to the biomedical workforce of our Nation.