MAXIMIZING THE QUALITY OF FUTURE GRADUATE STUDIES FOR UPR-RIO PIEDRAS MARC U*STAR TRAINEES

 描述（由申请人提供）：波多黎各大学里奥皮德拉斯校区MARC项目正在请求资金，以继续为三十四（34）名本科生提供开展研究和参与旨在他们的专业发展的项目活动的绝佳机会。本申请的第一个目的是增加将进入竞争激烈的生物医学研究的竞技场的高度有才华的生物和化学本科生的数量。为此，每个受训人员将参加指导，假设驱动的研究项目，并将提供必要的技能和工具。这将使受训者成为该国任何博士课程的高产学生，并以使他们追求博士后经验的方式完成学业。MARC计划将继续组织频繁的招聘研讨会，提供技术和专业研讨会，以及旨在加强所有学生的研究能力和沟通技巧的特殊课程。它将确保他们出席 参加研讨会和课程，为他们的领域创造知识基础。它还将营造一种氛围，确保受训人员成为一个有凝聚力的群体，其成员不仅相互帮助，而且在同龄人中促进博士研究。在这方面， 力求确保90%的学员攻读博士学位，并在优秀的研究项目中取得成功。这项申请的第二个目的涉及已经证明对UPR-里约彼德拉斯生物学和化学专业的学生人数有影响的活动，他们有能力从事研究工作。其中包括为即将入学的学生举办的活动，包括暑期数学沉浸式和旨在提高一年级学生学业成绩的化学前研讨会。随后是第一年的辅导计划，已被发现，以改善成果远远超过他们的第一年。这些活动将继续确保增加科学荣誉学生的人数。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras Campus MARC Program is requesting funding to continue to provide its thirty four (34) undergraduate students with excellent opportunities to carry out research and to participate in program activities aimed at their professional development. The first aim of this application is to increas the number of highly talented Biology and Chemistry undergraduates that will enter the arena of competitive biomedical research. To this end, each trainee will participate in mentored, hypothesis-driven research project, and will be provided with the necessary skills and tools. This will allow trainees to become highly productive students in any doctoral program in the country and to complete their studies in a manner that leads them to pursue postdoctoral experiences. The MARC Program will continue to organize frequent recruitment seminars, provide technical and professional workshops, as well as special courses directed toward strengthening the research capabilities and communication skills of all its students. It will assure that they attend seminars and take courses that create the knowledge base for their fields. It will also engender an atmosphere that assures that trainees become a cohesive group whose members not only assist each other, but promote doctoral research studies among their peers. In this respect it will seek to assure that 90 percent of its trainees pursue doctoral studies and do so successfully in outstanding research programs. The second aim of this application involves activities that have already shown to have an impact on the numbers of UPR-Rio Piedras Biology and Chemistry majors who are capable of pursuing research careers. These include activities for incoming students that incorporate a Summer Math Immersion and a pre-Chemistry workshop that are designed to improve the academic performance of first-year students. These are followed by a first-year mentoring program that has been found to improve outcomes well beyond their first year. These activities will continue to assure an increased pool of science honor students.