Undergraduate Biomedical Research Training at UTEP

描述（由申请人提供）：德州大学埃尔帕索分校的MARC U*STAR项目将继续寻找和培养有能力进入美国最高水平生物医学研究职业活动的年轻少数民族学生。每个学生都将参加他/她的学科所需的课程（在我们的情况下，生物科学，化学，数学和物理），加上一系列强制性的校园活动，而不是其他学生的标准：一个充满活力的研究经历，最终在口头答辩的书面荣誉本科论文；一门哲学系生物伦理学课程和一门研究导论课程。后一门课程每学期都有学生参加，它有许多组成部分（讲习班、研讨会、演讲），旨在培养一个有思想、有道德的科学家，在他的专业之外有广泛的观点，并有明确的沟通能力。校外研究经历也将被强烈鼓励。每位学生除了定期参加MARC会议/研讨会/专题讨论会外，还应在国家会议上展示他们的研究数据。在Denise Carrejo博士的指导下，与El Paso大学机构评估研究规划中心相关的专业评估小组运行了一个评估过程。该提案包含了一项重大努力，以增加MARC U-STAR计划对校园的影响。这涉及到新的短期课程（生物信息学和科学创业导论），这些课程最初将针对MARC学生，并在有限的基础上向其他人开放（RISE等）。在授予期结束后，这两门课程预计将作为大学社区的标准课程定期教授，并具有独立地位。此外，还将制作一系列学生和访问科学家研讨会的视频，作为学术界的资源库，说明知识状况，并展示我们未被充分代表的少数族裔UG学者如何产生影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MARC U*STAR program at U.T. El Paso will continue to seek out and nurture young minority students who possess the capacity to enter into the highest level of biomedical research career activity within the USA. Each student will participate in the courses needed for his/her discipline (in our case, Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Mathematics and Physics) plus a series of mandatory on-campus activities not standard for other students: a vigorous research experience culminating in the oral defense of a written Honors Undergraduate Thesis; a Philosophy Department Bioethics course and an Introduction to Research course. The latter course, in which the students are enrolled each semester, has many components (workshops, seminar, presentations) aimed at producing a thoughtful ethical scientist with a broad viewpoint outside of his specialty, and a clearly defined capacity to communicate. Off-campus research experiences will also be strongly encouraged. Each student will be expected to present their research data at national meetings in addition to participation in the regularly scheduled MARC meetings/seminars/symposia. An evaluation process is included in the program run by a professional evaluation group associated with the Center for Institutional Evaluation Research Planning at U. T. El Paso, under the Direction of Dr. Denise Carrejo. The proposal contains a significant effort to increase the impact of the MARC U-STAR program on the campus. This involves new short courses (Introduction to Bioinformatics and Science Entrepreneurship), which will be initially aimed at MARC students and be open to others (RISE, etc) on a limited basis. After the granting period, both courses are expected to become regularly taught as standard classes for the University Community and be self standing. Also a series of videos of both student and visiting scientist seminars will be produced to become a resource library for the academic community and illustrate the state of knowledge and demonstrate how our underrepresented minority UG scholars can make an impact. RELEVANCE: We propose a biomedicaly related research training program to underrepresented honors students and propel them into health related research careers via the Ph.D. degree. Together with an individual research project and mentor, a program of special courses in bioethics, scientific entrepreneurship and research topics will be provided along with special summer research internships to accomplish this goal.