Cellular, molecular, and biochemical sciences training grant

描述(由申请人提供)：本提案的目标是在俄亥俄州立大学(OSU)建立一个新的和独特的研究生培训机会，即细胞、分子和生化科学计划(CMBP)。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师和学员：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生物化学项目。虽然这些方案在培训特定学科的学生方面非常成功，但它们并没有侧重于提供额外的协调的跨学科培训机会，因为历史上的先例使在课程中引入变化或增加新的培训单元变得有些困难。CMBP的目标是通过引入促进职业发展的组成部分，为学生培训创造新的机会。从为学生分配教员和同行导师的迎新周活动开始，继续每月召开研究会议、年度研讨会、职业研讨会、道德培训、CMBP具体课程、可选实习计划、年度评估和职业监测，CMBP学员将体验到其他计划无法提供的培训。CMBP的特殊功能还包括需要一名合作顾问，他将定期提供与顾问的专业知识互补的专业知识，以及专门为该项目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，旨在吸引顶尖学生进入俄亥俄州立大学，所提供的培训的广度和深度将使CMBP毕业生能够为学术界、政府和行业的生物医学研究做出重大贡献。在过去几年中，重要的机构支持，加上新的文理学院结构，促进了俄勒冈州州立大学的跨学科研究和研究生培训。因此，我们认为现在是将这些机会提高到一个新水平的时候了。这项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族裔(URM)的研究生，从而在俄亥俄州立大学最近类似的本科生招聘活动中取得成功的基础上再接再厉。我们的目标是每年有四分之一的新奖学金颁发给大学管理学院的学生，我们已经获得了与之匹配的机构支持。

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.