MARC at Georgia State University: Workforce Diversity through Honors Undergraduates

佐治亚州立大学 MARC：通过荣誉本科生实现劳动力多元化

• 批准号: 10166878
• 负责人: Ritu Aneja
• 金额: $ 35.06万
• 依托单位: GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-06-01 至 2024-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10166878
• 关键词: Assistantship; Awareness; Bachelor' s Degree; Behavioral Sciences; Benchmarking; Biology; Biotechnology; CCL7 gene; Career Choice; Chemistry; Communication; Development; Disease; Doctor of Philosophy; Education; Educational workshop; Environment; Evaluation; Exposure to; Faculty; Foundations; Funding; Individual; Inosine Diphosphate; Institutes; Institution; Ions; Lead; Life; Measures; Mentors; Minority; Molecular; Neurosciences; Persons; Population; Positioning Attribute; Principal Investigator; Psychology; Research; Science; Self Efficacy; Students; Technical Expertise; Time; TimeLine; Training; Travel; Underrepresented Populations; United States National Institutes of Health; Universities; base; brain behavior; career; cohort; college; externship; field trip; high school program; programs; psychosocial; recruit; skills; symposium; training opportunity; undergraduate research experience; undergraduate student

PROJECT ABSTRACT MARC at Georgia State University (MARC@GSU) will create workforce diversity through honors undergraduates. GSU is the “right place at the right time” for a new MARC program; our institution offers an unusual combination of “research intensive institution” with over 50,000 students in a “minority-majority” population. Yet the institutional culture does not yet support impressive levels of alumni earning PhDs. A strategic thrust of MARC@GSU will be to leverage GSU’s growing number of state-of-the-art interdisciplinary undergraduate programs like B&B (Brains & Behavior), MBD (Molecular Basis of Disease), and IMSD (Initiative for Maximizing Student Development), as well as summer high-school programs like CTY (Catch Them Young) and ION (Institute on Neuroscience), to provide hands-on training, opportunities to cultivate life and professional skills, and gain in-person exposure to career pathways in biomedical and behavioral sciences. MARC will help us reach critical mass of support programs and training funds to change our culture. Out of almost 1,000 MARC-eligible undergraduates in biology, chemistry, neuroscience, and psychology, we will recruit 6-8 per cohort into our wrap-around programming grounded in four program objectives: 1) engage students in state-of-the-art research assistantships at GSU and externships at Harvard or Vanderbilt; 2) enhance the academic environment through honors-level course-based undergraduate research experiences (CUREs), seminars, a futuristic biotechnology course, and honors theses; 3) promote scientific communication, psychosocial awareness, and technical skills through workshops, conference travel, maker projects, and professional stewardship; and 4) maximize comprehensive mentoring and individualized career support through NRMN mentor training. IDPs, professional field trips, and timeline planning apps will alert scholars to a diverse array of career paths in research and facilitate clear career planning. Per our evaluation plan, we will evaluate student progress toward internal dispositions that predict research careers (e.g. self-efficacy and science identity), and measure the NIH benchmarks of 90% of MARC Scholars completing bachelor’s degrees, 60% proceeding into PhD programs, and 80% of those completing their advanced degrees. A balanced pair of Co-Principal Investigators, with expertise in both education and bench science, is well-positioned to lead a diverse and enthusiastic team of four key faculty, and over 30 supportive and productive faculty preceptors, working with foundational support from the Honors College and a new Center for the Advancement of Students and Alumni (CASA) at Georgia State. Ultimately, MARC@GSU will prepare individuals from underrepresented groups for successful research careers, thereby helping to enhance the US research workforce.

项目摘要 佐治亚州立大学 MARC (MARC@GSU) 将通过荣誉创造劳动力多元化 GSU 是我们机构在“正确的时间”开设新的 MARC 课程的地方； “研究密集型机构”与超过 50,000 名学生的“少数派占多数”的不寻常组合 然而，机构文化尚不支持获得 A 级博士学位的校友达到令人印象深刻的水平。 MARC@GSU 的战略主旨是利用 GS​​U 不断增长的最先进的跨学科 本科生课程如 B&B（大脑与行为）、MBD（疾病分子基础）和 IMSD （最大化学生发展倡议），以及暑期高中项目，如 CTY（Catch Them Young）和ION（神经科学研究所），提供实践培训、培养生活的机会 和专业技能，并亲自接触生物医学和行为领域的职业道路 MARC 将帮助我们获得足够的支持计划和培训资金来改变我们的文化。 在近 1,000 名符合 MARC 资格的生物学、化学、神经科学和心理学本科生中，我们 将每个队列招募 6-8 名学生加入我们的环绕式扎根计划，以实现四个计划目标：1) 参与 在 GSU 获得最先进的研究助理职位以及在哈佛大学或范德堡大学实习的学生 2) 通过基于荣誉课程的本科生研究经验改善学术环境 (CURE)、研讨会、未来生物技术课程和荣誉论文 3) 促进科学交流， 通过研讨会、会议旅行、创客项目和 专业管理；4) 最大限度地提供全面的指导和个性化的职业支持 通过 NRMN 导师培训、专业实地考察和时间表规划应用程序将提醒学者注意 根据我们的评估计划，我们将提供多样化的研究职业道路并促进清晰的职业规划。 评估学生在预测研究职业的内部倾向方面的进展（例如自我效能和 科学身份），并衡量 90% 完成学士学位的 MARC 学者的 NIH 基准， 60% 的人继续攻读博士学位，80% 的人完成高级学位。 联合首席研究员在教育和实验科学方面拥有专业知识，有能力领导一个 由四位主要教师组成的多元化且充满热情的团队，以及超过 30 名支持性且富有成效的教师导师， 在荣誉学院和新的学生进步中心的基础支持下合作 最终，MARC@GSU 将为来自代表性不足的个人提供帮助。 团体成功的研究事业，从而帮助增强美国的研究队伍。