UMBC Undergraduate Research Symposium in Chemical and Biological Sciences

描述(由申请者提供)：本次续签申请寻求对为期一天的年度会议的持续支持，该会议强调了跨越化学和生物学科的本科生研究。这一活动的目标是在不同人群中培养本科生对生物医学研究的兴趣，并涉及：(1)提供一个高能量的肯定活动，将个人的科学努力置于跨越生物和化学研究的一系列努力的更大背景下；(2)积极征求和争取大量在生物医学研究企业中未被充分代表的人的参与；以及(3)增强年轻科学家对化学和生物研究问题之间的接口，以及在许多情况下的密切联系的认识。我们寻求维持一个地区性研讨会，在化学和生物两大学科之间促进高质量的本科生科学。在目前的形式下，它是一个充满活力和活力的论坛；欢迎和促进参与者的多样性，这在目前活跃于研究的博士科学家群体中是不典型的。在过去的支持下，我们感到我们正在实现上述目标。鉴于我们的资源和需要维持一个亲密和支持性的会议结构，我们寻求支持，以稳定出席约200场演讲。 与公共健康相关：这个应用程序要求为每年一次的本科生研究研讨会提供资金，在研讨会上，只有本科生参加为期一天的活动，包括两个海报会议。这次在马里兰大学巴尔的摩县举行的会议已经结束了第11个年头。这是一次非常积极的经历，涉及到非常多样化的学生群体，它激励学生走向科学研究的职业。会议的副主题是化学-生物学界面的研究，因此许多学生接触并鼓励他们从事研究学科，这些学科与国家对面向生物医学相关问题的多样化劳动力的需求有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This renewal application seeks continued support for an annual one-day meeting that highlights undergraduate research spanning the disciplines of Chemistry and Biology. The goals of this event are oriented toward nurturing Undergraduate interest, among a diverse population, in biomedical research and involve: (1) providing a high- energy affirmative event that places an individual's scientific endeavors in the larger context of the array of endeavors spanning biological and chemical research; (2) vigorously soliciting, and obtaining, the participation of substantial numbers of those underrepresented in the biomedical research enterprise; and (3) enhancing young scientist's awareness of the interface, and in many cases the intimate linkages, between chemical and biological research problems. We seek to sustain a regional Symposium that promotes top quality undergraduate science across and between the two major disciplines of chemistry and biology. In its present form, it is an energetic and dynamic forum; welcoming of and promoting the diversity of participants that is atypical of current cohort of research-active PhD scientists. With the past support we feel that we are accomplishing the above. Given our resources and the need to maintain an intimate and supportive conference structure, we seek support for a steady state attendance of about 200 presentations. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: This application requests funds for an annual Undergraduate Research Symposium at which solely undergraduate students participate in a one-day event comprising two poster sessions. This conference at University of Maryland Baltimore County has completed its 11th year. This is a very positive experience involving a very diverse student group and it motivates students toward careers in scientific research. The conference sub-theme is research at the Chemistry-Biology interface and so many students are exposed and encouraged toward research disciplines that bear on the national need for a diverse workforce oriented to problems of biomedical relevance.