MARC Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research at Queens College

皇后学院 MARC 本科生学术研究培训

• 批准号: 8073649
• 负责人: ZAHRA ZAKERI
• 金额: $ 36.16万
• 依托单位: QUEENS COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-06-01 至 2014-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8073649
• 关键词: Adoption; Advertising; Awareness; Basic Science; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Communities; Country; Documentation; Educational workshop; Fostering; Goals; Hand; Investments; Laboratories; Measurable; Mentors; Monitor; Outcome; Outcome Assessment; Paper; Preparation; Prize; Publishing; Recruitment Activity; Research; Research Personnel; Science; Students; Supervision; System; Training; Training Programs; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; base; career; college; experience; financial incentive; innovation; medical schools; outreach program; peer; posters; programs; public health relevance; success

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose to enhance and optimize the MARC program that we successfully launched at Queens College 4 years ago. Queens College is a senior college of one of the largest urban universities in the country and is situated in the remarkably diverse borough of Queens. We have developed a program that, through emphasis on hands-on laboratory experience and close supervision and advisement of students, has proven successful based on the proportion of students pursuing or planning to pursue careers in biomedical research. Based on an ongoing assessment of our outcomes, we have modified our initial goals and tactics to achieve optimal success in achieving our measurable objectives. We propose to continue to optimize 1) our workshops on research basics, 2) our hands on research experience, including one summer at a Research I University; 3) our intensive advisement and monitoring system; 4) our insistence that students attend research colloquia and make presentations in front of their peers; and 5) our fostering of interaction between MARC students and other research students. One reflection of our success thus far has been the adoption by other programs at Queens College of our innovations for a poster day and for assessment. In our second five-year cycle, we plan to increase awareness of our program, and thus the size of the student pool from which we draw, by expanded advertising and outreach programs as well as a highly successful "Science For Starters" course. We will also increase financial incentives for pre-MARC students through a new College subsidy, expand our "tutoring for excellence" program, and establishing a MARC-pre-MARC buddy system. This latter initiative will get pre-MARC students into laboratories more quickly, will provide them with peer support, and will give our MARC students experience in mentoring. Throughout our proposed second cycle, we will maintain and expand our extensive assessment and documentation efforts to allow us to judge the impact of our program in terms of recruiting and student outcomes as well as our overall impact on the College. Our first four years have been successful in terms of students placed, prizes won at conventions, papers published or in preparation, and impact on our College and Division. Using the results from our outcomes assessments, we plan to continue to optimize both our training program, and its impact on our College and surrounding community. Public Health Relevance Statement: This proposal is intended to increase the number of researchers in biomedical sciences who derive from under-represented minorities. The pool from which we draw is a major urban region, so that the graduates of our program are likely to return our investment by contributing to the number of researchers at major universities and medical schools in the region.

描述（由申请人提供）：我们建议加强和优化 4 年前在皇后学院成功启动的 MARC 项目。皇后学院是美国最大的城市大学之一的高级学院，位于极其多元化的皇后区。我们开发了一个项目，通过强调实验室实践经验以及对学生的密切监督和建议，根据追求或计划从事生物医学研究职业的学生比例，该项目已被证明是成功的。根据对结果的持续评估，我们修改了最初的目标和策略，以在实现可衡量目标方面取得最佳成功。我们建议继续优化 1）我们的研究基础研讨会，2）我们的实践研究经验，包括在研究型大学的一个夏天； 3）我们的密集建议和监控系统； 4）我们坚持要求学生参加研究讨论会并在同龄人面前做演讲； 5) 促进 MARC 学生和其他研究生之间的互动。迄今为止，我们成功的体现之一是皇后学院的其他项目采用了我们的海报日和评估创新。在我们的第二个五年周期中，我们计划通过扩大广告和推广计划以及非常成功的“初学者科学”课程来提高我们计划的知名度，从而扩大我们吸引的学生群体的规模。我们还将通过新的学院补贴，扩大我们的“卓越辅导”计划，并建立 MARC-pre-MARC 伙伴系统，增加对 MARC 预科学生的经济激励。后一项举措将使 MARC 预科学生更快地进入实验室，为他们提供同伴支持，并为我们的 MARC 学生提供指导经验。在我们提议的第二个周期中，我们将维持并扩大我们广泛的评估和记录工作，以便我们能够判断我们的计划在招生和学生成果方面的影响以及我们对学院的整体影响。我们的前四年在学生安置、会议获奖、发表或准备的论文以及对我们学院和部门的影响方面都取得了成功。利用我们的成果评估结果，我们计划继续优化我们的培训计划及其对我们学院和周边社区的影响。 公共卫生相关性声明：该提案旨在增加来自代表性不足的少数族裔的生物医学研究人员的数量。我们抽取的人才库是主要城市地区，因此我们项目的毕业生很可能通过为该地区主要大学和医学院的研究人员数量做出贡献来回报我们的投资。