MARC Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program

描述(由申请人提供)：拟议的MARC U*STAR计划的目标是进一步增加符合条件的URM本科生继续在生物医学博士水平接受教育的人数。该项目将由代表 协调的计划，包括本科生招聘，广泛的研究经验，和研究生准备。这些活动以大学荣誉序列为中心，并为MARC学员提供专门的课程，为他们进行严格的研究生培训做好准备。在之前的资助期间，我们在实施更严格的招生和选拔程序方面取得了重大进展，以筛选对从事医学或与生物医学研究无关的领域感兴趣的候选人；越来越多的城市学院MARC实习生现在被生物医学科学博士项目录取。我们计划的核心目标仍然是招生和选拔，以及为研究生院提供建议和准备。学生将被安排在生物系、化学系、地球科学系和物理系的实验室里。我们将与苏菲·戴维斯生物医学教育、生物医学工程和心理学学院的教职员工和学生一起，扩大合适的导师和实习生队伍。我们还将利用纽约城市大学的倡议来扩大科学基础设施；例如，对结构生物学项目感兴趣的学员将可以在新建的纽约结构生物学中心获得最先进的生物分子结构分析仪器，而对癌症研究感兴趣的学员将能够利用城市学院与纪念斯隆·凯特琳癌症中心合作创造的机会。新的MARC U*STAR计划的实施将使理科尖子生受益，无论是实习生还是非实习生，从而实现加强学院培养学生理科能力的目标， 以及加强他们在城市学院的研究培训经验。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The goal of the proposed MARC U*STAR program is to further increase the number of qualified URM undergraduates who continue their education at the Ph.D. level in the biomedical sciences. The project will consist of activities that represent a coordinated program that includes undergraduate recruitment, extensive research experience, and graduate school preparation. These activities are centered around the College Honors Sequence, coupled with specific courses for the MARC trainees to prepare them for the rigors of postgraduate training. In the previous funding period we made significant progress in implementing a more stringent student recruitment and selection process to screen out candidates interested in pursuing careers in medicine or fields unrelated to biomedical research; increasing numbers of MARC trainees from City College are now being admitted to doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. Core goals of our program remain student recruitment and selection, and advisement and preparation for graduate school. Students will be placed in the laboratories of faculty in the departments of Biology, Chemistry, Earth Science, and Physics. We will expand the pool of appropriate mentors and trainees with faculty and students from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education, Biomedical Engineering, and Psychology. We will also take advantage of the initiative by the City University of New York to expand science infrastructure; for example trainees interested in working on projects in structural biology will have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural analyses of biomolecules at the newly constructed New York Structural Biology Center, and trainees interested in cancer research will be able to take advantage of opportunities created by City College's partnership with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. The implementation of the new MARC U*STAR program will benefit top science students, both trainees as well as non-trainees, thereby meeting the goals of strengthening the capability of the college to train students in the sciences, and enhancing their research training experience at City College.