MARC Honors Undergraduate Research Training Program

MARC 荣誉本科生研究培训计划

基本信息

批准号：
10408012
负责人：
JONATHAN B LEVITT
金额：
$ 20.42万
依托单位：
CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
1978
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
1978-06-01 至 2024-05-31
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

The goal of the proposed MARC U-STAR program is to further increase the number of qualified underrepresented undergraduates who continue their education at the Ph.D. level in the biomedical and behavioral 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 entering and completing doctoral programs in the biomedical sciences. Core goals of our program remain student recruitment and selection, and advisement and preparation for graduate school. We will recruit students for placement into the laboratories of faculty in the departments of Biology, Biomedical Engineering, Chemistry & Biochemistry, Earth & Atmospheric Science, Physics, and Psychology; the pool of mentors also includes faculty from the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education. Students will be appointed for their final 2 years of undergraduate study and will engage in mentored independent research, have regular advising meetings with their mentor and the MARC program director and advisory committee, and will participate in professional development seminars. We will also take advantage of initiatives by the City University of New York to expand science infrastructure; for example there are now two new science buildings on the City College campus, trainees interested in working on projects in structural biology have access to state-of-the-art instrumentation for structural analyses of biomolecules at the New York Structural Biology Center on the CCNY campus, and trainees interested in cancer research are 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.

拟议的MARC U-Star计划的目标是进一步增加合格的数量在博士学位上继续学业的本科生的代表性不足。生物医学的水平和行为科学。该项目将包括代表协调计划的活动其中包括本科招聘，丰富的研究经验和研究生院准备。这些活动以大学荣誉序列为中心，再加上 MARC学员的特定课程为他们准备严格的研究生培训。在以前的资金期我们在实施更严格的学生方面取得了重大进展招聘和选择过程，以筛选有兴趣从事职业的候选人与生物医学研究无关的医学或领域；越来越多的MARC学员来自城市大学现在正在进入并完成生物医学科学的博士课程。核心目标我们的计划仍然是学生的招聘和选择，并为研究所。我们将招募学生将学生安置到教师的实验室中生物学，生物医学工程，化学与生物化学，地球与大气部门科学，物理和心理学；导师库还包括索菲·戴维斯（Sophie Davis）的教师生物医学教育学院。学生将被任命为最后两年的本科生研究并将从事指导的独立研究，并定期向会议咨询导师和MARC计划主任兼咨询委员会，并将参加专业发展研讨会。我们还将利用纽约城市大学的倡议扩大科学基础设施；例如，现在有两座新科学建筑大学校园，有兴趣从事结构生物学项目的学员可以使用纽约结构性生物分子结构分析的最新仪器 CCNY校园的生物学中心和对癌症研究感兴趣的学员可以接受城市学院与纪念斯隆·凯特林（Sloan Kettering）合作创造的机会的优势癌症中心。新的MARC U-Star计划的实施将使顶级科学受益学生，包括学员和非培训者，从而达到了加强的目标学院的能力培训科学的学生并增强他们的研究培训在城市学院的经验。