MARC U-STAR PROGRAM AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS

圣路易斯华盛顿大学 MARC U-STAR 项目

• 批准号: 10202136
• 负责人: James Benjamin Skeath
• 金额: $ 42.28万
• 依托单位: WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-06-01 至 2026-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10202136
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Project Summary The Washington University MARC U-STAR Program seeks to be part of a larger national effort that promotes diversity in scientific research and the scientific workforce. Teams composed of individuals from diverse backgrounds typically outperform teams composed of individuals from similar backgrounds. For the United States to remain the worldwide leader in research, it must realize the tremendous scientific potential inherent within its diverse population, much of which currently lies untapped within the underrepresented and underserved communities. By focusing on research, scientific presentation, and community, our program seeks to unlock this scientific potential, and in doing so help change the face of the next generation of scientists. This application requests funds to support ten trainees in our MARC Program. By driving excellence and innovation in research-based education, our program's mission is to help underrepresented students succeed in the lab and classroom, matriculate into top PhD and MD/PhD programs, and excel in them. We focus on three goals to achieve this mission: to provide students top-notch research experiences; to train them to think critically and to write and speak effectively about science; and to create a positive, personal, and critical scientific community in which they thrive. We center our program around the research experience and have developed ten activities that span the two-year, junior- and senior-level program and seek to create a supportive community in which students obtain rigorous training in research and scientific presentation via individualized training and critique. Our MARC Program, which was created in 2008, occupies a unique educational niche within Washington University. It is the only program that supports underrepresented students during both the academic year and summer to carry out research. It also incorporates a university-funded, Pre-MARC summer research program for students who just completed their first-year in college to allow them to experience research, often for the first time, and to help recruit these students into the MARC Program at the end of their sophomore year. Positive student feedback on the MARC program illustrates its importance in driving student success and developing a community in which underrepresented students thrive, with a recent surge in student applications leading to a quadrupling in program size made possible through additional financial support from diverse university sources.

项目概要 华盛顿大学 MARC U-STAR 计划旨在成为更大的国家努力的一部分，以促进 科学研究和科学队伍的多样性。由来自不同领域的个人组成的团队 背景通常优于由具有相似背景的个人组成的团队。对于联合国 各国要在研究领域保持全球领先地位，就必须认识到其固有的巨大科学潜力 在其多样化的人口中，其中大部分目前尚未在代表性不足和 服务不足的社区。通过专注于研究、科学展示和社区，我们的计划寻求 释放这种科学潜力，并帮助改变下一代科学家的面貌。 该申请请求资金支持我们的 MARC 计划中的 10 名学员。通过推动卓越和 研究型教育的创新，我们计划的使命是帮助代表性不足的学生 在实验室和课堂上取得成功，进入顶尖的博士和医学博士/博士项目，并在其中表现出色。我们 重点关注三个目标来实现这一使命：为学生提供一流的研究经验；训练 他们能够批判性地思考、有效地写作和谈论科学；并创造一个积极的、个人的、 以及他们赖以成长的重要科学社区。我们的计划以研究经验为中心 并制定了十项活动，涵盖为期两年的初级和高级计划，并力求创建一个 支持性社区，学生通过以下方式获得严格的研究和科学演示培训 个性化的培训和批评。 我们的 MARC 项目于 2008 年创建，在华盛顿占据独特的教育地位 大学。这是唯一一个在学年和学年期间为代表性不足的学生提供支持的计划 暑假进行研究。它还包含大学资助的 Pre-MARC 夏季研究计划 适合刚刚完成大学一年级的学生，让他们能够体验研究，通常是第一次 时间，并帮助这些学生在大二结束时加入 MARC 项目。积极的 学生对 MARC 项目的反馈表明了其在推动学生成功和发展 代表性不足的学生在其中蓬勃发展，最近学生申请的激增导致 通过来自不同大学来源的额外财政支持，项目规模翻了两番。