Undergraduate Biomedical Research Training at UTEP

 描述（由申请人提供）：我们将寻找，培养和培养与生物学，化学，物理学和数学的生物医学学科相关的STEM专业的荣誉学生，以进入强大的研究生课程，最终目标是获得博士学位。在自己选择的领域。该计划将是研究密集型的，每个学生与我们最优秀的研究人员一起工作，为期长达24个月，最终将在研究论文的强制性写作和口头答辩中获得经验。学生将被期望参加科学会议，最初作为观察员，以熟悉这种会议的文化和设计，后来向选定的科学界介绍他们的研究成果。沿着研究接触和培训，学生将有生物伦理学和负责任的研究行为的特别重点课程。生物伦理学课程将由哲学系的教师讲授，并将是一门专注于MARC学生的特定课程，强度和智力广泛，适合具有博士学位愿望的学生。学位和后来的研究型职业。负责任的研究行为将是每周“研究入门”课程的一部分，并将由PD指导，作为对研究社区开放的陷阱的更多实践日常调查。它将包括从NIH研究诚信办公室和相关的NSF办公室证明的“犯罪”和“惩罚”的例子。“研究导论”课程还将涉及一系列“与学者对话”，我们的顶尖大学学者将参加非正式会议，以描述他们的工作，以及他们从学生到教师的个人故事，以及面临和克服的障碍。学生将被鼓励参加暑期研究经验校外的知识，我们的许多学生很少或根本没有我们有点孤立的区域外的经验，并收到的理解，他们的“家”实验室和培训和个人才能使他们有竞争力的研究生院往往是非常重要的，他们的发展。这些经历可以是许多大学为这类学生观众组织的特殊计划;国家实验室计划，例如DOE，DOD或研究主任的特殊安排。最后，我们设计了两个班“生物信息学”和“科学创业”作为两个关键的经验，以加强他们的培训和职业想法/选择。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We shall seek out, nurture, and train honors students in STEM majors related to biomedical disciplines of Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Mathematics for entry into strong graduate programs with the ultimate goal of graduation with a Ph.D. degree in their chosen field. The program will be research intensive, each student working in a group with our finest research faculty for a period of up to 24 months with the experience culminating in the mandatory writing and oral defense of a research Thesis. The student will be expected to attend scientific meeting, initially as an observer to familiarize themselves with the culture and design of such meetings, and later to present their research results to the chosen scientific community. Along with the research exposure and training the students will have special focused classes on Bioethics and Responsible Conduct of Research. The Bioethics course will be taught by faculty from the Department of Philosophy and will be a specific course focused on the MARC students, intense and intellectually broad as befits students with aspirations of the Ph. D. degree and later research-oriented careers. The Responsible Conduct of Research will be part of a weekly "Introduction to Research" course and will be directed by the PD, as a more hands-on day to day inquiry into the pitfalls open to the research community. It will include examples of the "crime" and the "punishment" as evidenced from the NIH Office of Research Integrity and the related NSF office. The "Introduction to Research" class will also involve a series of "Conversations with Scholars" where our top University Scholars come for informal sessions to describe their work, and their personal stories en route from student to faculty, and the hurdles faced and overcome. The students will be encouraged to participate in a summer research experience off-campus in the knowledge that many of our students have little or no experience outside our somewhat isolated region and the received understanding that their "home" laboratory and training and personal talent makes them competitive for graduate school is often of great importance to their development. Such experiences can be special programs organized by many Universities for this student audience; National Laboratory Programs, e.g. DOE, DOD, or special arrangement made by the research director. Finally we have designed two classes "Bioinformatics" and "Entrepreneurship in Science" as two key experiences to enhance their training and career ideas/options.