Cellular, molecular, and biochemical sciences training grant

描述（由申请人提供）：本提案的目的是在俄亥俄州立大学（OSU）的细胞，分子和生物化学科学项目（CMBP）建立一个新的和独特的研究生培训机会。该项目将吸引来自五个相关分子生命科学研究生项目的教员和学员：生物物理学、微生物学、分子细胞和发育生物学、分子遗传学和俄亥俄州立生物化学项目。虽然这些项目在培训特定学科的学生方面非常成功，但它们并没有专注于提供额外的协调的跨学科培训机会，因为历史先例使得引入课程变化或增加新的培训模块有些困难。CMBP的目标是通过引入职业发展组件，为学生培训创造新的机会。从为学生分配教师和同伴导师的入学周活动开始，再到每月的研究会议、年度专题讨论会、职业研讨会、道德培训、CMBP特定课程、可选实习项目、年度评估和职业监控，CMBP学员将体验到其他项目无法获得的培训。特殊的CMBP功能还包括对联合顾问的要求，他将在日常基础上提供顾问的专业知识，以及专门为该计划开发的强制性科学写作研讨会。CMBP将是一个严格而苛刻的项目，旨在吸引优秀学生到俄勒冈州立大学，所提供的培训的广度和深度将使CMBP毕业生为学术界，政府和工业界的生物医学研究做出重大贡献。在过去的几年里，重要的制度支持，加上新的文理学院结构，促进了俄勒冈州立大学的跨学科研究和研究生培训。因此，我们认为现在是把这些机会提高到一个新的水平的时候了。本提案所要求的资源现在将使我们能够在现有优势的基础上开发一个新的研究生培训计划，该计划涵盖细胞，生物化学和分子科学的广泛主题和活动。通过CMBP提供的独特机会组合也将增加招聘和留住最优秀的研究生，特别是来自代表性不足的少数民族（URM）的学生，从而在俄勒冈州立大学最近成功开展的类似本科生招聘活动的基础上再创辉煌。我们的目标是每年有四分之一的新奖学金颁发给墨尔本大学的学生，为此我们获得了相应的机构支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The objective of this proposal is to establish a new and unique graduate training opportunity at Ohio State University (OSU), the Cellular, Molecular and Biochemical Sciences Program (CMBP). This program will draw faculty and trainees from five related molecular life sciences graduate programs: Biophysics, Microbiology, Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology, Molecular Genetics, and the Ohio State Biochemistry Program. While these programs are very successful in training students in particular disciplines, they have not focused on providing additional coordinated interdisciplinary training opportunities as historical precedents make introduction of changes in curriculum or addition of new training modules somewhat difficult. The goal of the CMBP is to create new opportunities for student training by introducing career-advancing components. Starting with orientation week activities where students are assigned a faculty and peer mentor, and continuing with monthly research meetings, annual symposia, career workshops, ethics training, CMBP-specific courses, optional internship programs, annual evaluations, and career monitoring, CMBP trainees will experience training not available through other programs. Special CMBP features also include the requirement for a co- advisor, who will provide expertise complementary to that of the advisor on a routine basis, and a mandatory scientific writing workshop specifically developed for this program. CMBP will be a rigorous and demanding program designed to attract top students to OSU, and the breadth and depth of the training provided will position CMBP graduates to make significant contributions to biomedical research in academia, government, and industry. In the past few years, significant institutional support, together with a new Arts and Sciences College structure, has facilitated interdisciplinary research and graduate training at OSU. Thus, we feel the time is right to bring these opportunities to a new level. The resources requested in this proposal would now allow us to build on existing strengths to develop a new graduate training program that spans a broad range of topics and activities in the cellular, biochemical and molecular sciences. The unique combination of opportunities offered through the CMBP will also increase recruitment and retention of the very best graduate students, in particular from underrepresented minorities (URM), thereby building upon recent successes in similar undergraduate recruitment activities at OSU. Matching institutional support towards our goal of having one quarter of new fellowships awarded to URM students each year has been secured.