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主要学生的领导职位。在加州州立大学，多明格斯山的自然和行为科学部门，包括生物化学/化学，生物学，物理学，心理学和社会学，准备科学劳动力，并集中在发展学生的潜力，在生物医学和行为科学的研究事业。由于CSUDH是一个少数民族和西班牙裔服务机构，我们准备代表性不足的少数民族学生进入科学和生物医学劳动力的比例很高。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，以提高他们进入高排名博士课程的竞争力。我们的目标和宗旨是为了影响MARC学员，预MARC学生谁最终将成为一个MARC实习资格，以及其他学生主修生物医学和行为科学。目标和目的的实现将准备MARC学生进入高度选择性的博士课程，预MARC学生成为MARC资格，并加强在CSUDH的研究培训能力，从而提供机会，准备科学专业的研究生水平的工作和/或职业生涯在生物医学和行为研究。我们预计，在资助周期结束时，我们将增加CSUDH理科学生的数量，特别是代表性不足的少数民族学生，他们申请并获得竞争激烈的博士课程的录取。沿着，这些学生将成为多产的科学家作为本科生在专业会议上介绍他们的工作，并在同行评议的科学期刊上发表。我们的评估过程将表明，我们将为代表性不足的少数民族学生的发展做出贡献，我们的计划已经培养他们成为我们国家的生物医学和科学劳动力。 公共卫生相关性声明：CSUDH的MARC USTAR培训计划将增加进入博士课程的代表性不足的少数民族学生的数量，从而导致生物医学和行为科学的研究事业。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.