MARC at the University of Texas at San Antonio

摘要/摘要 美国需要一支强大的、多样化的博士级别的科学家和工程师队伍，以满足新兴市场的需求 对国家健康的挑战，以及培养代表我们不同种族的国家的教师和领导人 人口。众所周知，当来自不同背景和经历的人走到一起时，他们的 观点和创造力的结合导致了解决挑战性问题的新方法。该计划的目的是 德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校拟议的MARC计划是招募和培训一批不同的 来自少数民族群体的本科生，经济上处于不利地位，或有残疾--所有这些 这些群体目前在我们国家的生物医学劳动力中发挥的作用最小。我们的目标是MARC培训 将允许他们进行最高水平的研究培训，从而在#年获得博士学位。 哲学(哲学博士)学位。拥有该学位将为在以下领域获得极具影响力和责任感的职位打开大门 生物医学研究行业、政府机构和我们国家的大学。MARC实习生将 主修生物、生物医学工程、化学工程、化学、物理、心理学和 数学。为了为未来的学员做好准备，Marc将培养一批优秀的Marc前申请者。 并教育他们关于研究方面的博士职业，基本的专业技能，帮助他们与 教师，并指导他们的研究经验和MARC计划。MARC将提供资金 支持作为大二或大三入学并作为大四完成课程的受训人员，在 两三年的工作经验。MARC将提供广泛的培训研讨会和经验 实习生和其他想要获得博士学位但不在24个MARC培训中的“MARC-2”学生 各就各位。为学生和他们的教职员工研究导师提供的MARC培训将确保受训者有一个安全的 和欢迎实验室经验；发展同行、教员和前MARC实习生网络；发展 许多研究和专业技能需要成为博士项目的有力申请者；学习现代 处理数据的计算技术；并作为领导者成长。培训工作坊将指导学员 通过他们发展中的重要事件，其中写一篇他们研究的摘要(摘要) 他们可以在科学会议上发表演讲，在越来越专业的环境中发表演讲， 完成了他们第一次申请另一所学校获得暑期研究职位，并最终成功 申请和面试博士项目。MARC的教职员工、导师和讲师 在20多年的时间里，在项目中支持了数百名代表性不足的学生；其中数十名学生 被世界上一些最负盛名的博士项目录取。对于这一拟议的五年计划， 我们的主要目标是让所有实习生获得学士学位，至少80%的实习生毕业 继续攻读博士学位，其中85%的人完成了他们的课程并进入了高级职业生涯 将使所有美国人受益的生物医学科学。

Summary/Abstract The United States needs a strong, diverse workforce of Ph.D.-level scientists and engineers to meet emerging challenges to the nation’s health and to cultivate faculty and leaders who represent our heterogeneous national population. It is well known that when people from different backgrounds and experiences come together, their combined perspectives and creativity lead to new approaches to challenging problems. The purpose of the proposed MARC Program at the University of Texas at San Antonio is to recruit and train a diverse group of undergraduates who are from ethnic minority groups, are financially disadvantaged, or have a disability– all groups that currently play a minimal role in our national biomedical workforce. Our goal is that MARC training will allow them to undertake the highest levels of research training, leading to the award of the Doctorate in Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree. Holding this degree opens the door to positions of great impact and responsibility in the biomedical research industry, government institutions, and our nation’s universities. The MARC trainees will be majors in Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemical Engineering, Chemistry, Physics, Psychology, and Mathematics. To prepare future trainees, MARC will develop a ‘pre-MARC” population of excellent applicants and educate them about the Ph.D. careers in research, fundamental professional skills, help them connect with faculty, and guide them towards research experiences and the MARC program. MARC will provide financial support to trainees who enter as sophomores or juniors and complete the program as seniors, acquiring between two and three years of experience. MARC will offer a wide array of training workshops and experiences for the trainees and for additional “MARC-2” students who desire a Ph.D. but are not in one of the 24 MARC training positions. MARC training for students and their faculty research mentors will ensure that the trainees have a safe and welcoming laboratory experience; grow a network of peers, faculty, and former MARC trainees; develop the many research and professional skills needed to be strong applicants for PhD programs; learn modern computational techniques for working with data; and grow as leaders. Training workshops will guide the trainees through important events in their development, among them writing an abstract (summary) of their research so that they can present it at a scientific conference, making presentations in increasingly professional settings, completing their first application to another school to obtain a summer research position, and finally, successfully applying to, and interviewing for, Ph.D. programs. The MARC faculty, staff, mentors, and instructors have supported hundreds of underrepresented students in programs for over 20 years; scores of these students have been admitted to some of the most prestigious Ph.D. programs in the world. For this proposed five-year program, our main goals are for all trainees to graduate with their bachelor’s degree, with at least 80% of trainees continuing on the doctoral path, and 85% of these completing their programs and advancing to high-level careers in the biomedical sciences that will benefit all Americans.