MARC at the University of Texas at San Antonio

德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校 MARC

• 批准号: 10412755
• 负责人: EDWIN J BAREA-RODRIGUEZ
• 金额: $ 41.01万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SAN ANTONIO
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-06-01 至 2027-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10412755
• 关键词: American; Award; Bachelor' s Degree; Biology; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Chemical Engineering; Chemistry; Computational Technique; Creativeness; Data; Development; Disadvantaged; Diverse Workforce; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational workshop; Engineering; Ensure; Event; Faculty; Financial Support; Future; Goals; Government; Health; Industry; Institution; Interview; Lead; Learning; Mathematics; Mentors; Modernization; Persons; Philosophy; Physics; Play; Population; Positioning Attribute; Psychology; Research; Research Training; Role; Schools; Science; Scientist; Students; Texas; Training; Underrepresented Students; United States; Universities; Writing; career; disability; ethnic minority population; experience; faculty research; instructor; laboratory experience; novel strategies; peer networks; programs; recruit; skills; student training; summer research; symposium; undergraduate student

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.

摘要/摘要 美国需要博士学位的强大，潜水员的劳动力，以与新兴 对国家健康的挑战，培养代表我们异质民族的教师和领导人 人口。众所周知，当来自不同背景和经验的人们聚集在一起时 结合观点和创造力导致了挑战问题的新方法。目的 德克萨斯大学圣安东尼奥分校的MARC计划招募和培训了一个由 来自少数民族群体的大学生在财务上处于不利地位或有残疾 - 目前在我们的国家生物医学劳动力中起着最小作用的团体。我们的目标是MARC培训 他们将允许他们接受最高水平的研究培训，从而获得博士学位 哲学（博士）学位。保持这个学位为巨大的影响力和责任感打开 生物医学研究行业，政府机构和我们国家的大学。马克学员将 成为生物学，生物医学工程，化学工程，化学，物理，心理学和 数学。为了准备未来的学员，Marc将开发出优秀申请人的“婚前”人群 并向他们教育博士学位。研究，基本专业技能的职业，帮助他们与 教师，并指导他们进行研究经验和MARC计划。马克将提供财务 支持作为大二或大三学生进入并完成该计划的学员的支持 两年和三年的经验。马克将为 受训者和其他希望获得博士学位的“ MARC-2”学生但不在24个MARC培训中 位置。 MARC针对学生及其教师研究导师的培训将确保受训人员安全 并欢迎实验室经验；建立一个同龄人，教职员工和前马克实习生的网络；开发 许多研究和专业技能需要成为博士课程的强大申请人；学习现代 用于使用数据的计算技术；并成长为领导者。培训讲习班将指导培训 通过他们发展的重要事件，其中包括撰写研究的摘要（摘要），因此 他们可以在科学会议上介绍它，在越来越专业的环境中进行演讲， 完成他们在另一所学校获得夏季研究职位的第一个申请，最后成功地 申请和面试博士学位。程序。 MARC的教职员工，导师和讲师 在20多年的计划中为数百名代表性不足的学生提供了支持；这些学生有数分数 被录取了一些最负盛名的博士学位。世界上的程序。对于此拟议的五年计划， 我们的主要目标是让所有学员获得学士学位，至少有80％的学员 继续沿着博士路径，其中85％完成了计划并晋升为高级职业 在将受益于所有美国人的生物医学科学中。