The MARC Program at UCSC

UCSC 的 MARC 项目

• 批准号: 10401889
• 负责人: Seth Michael Rubin
• 金额: $ 88.69万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ
• 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/10401889
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PROJECT SUMMARY The primary goal of the MARC program at UC Santa Cruz is to recruit and prepare underrepresented (UR) students for entry into biomedical PhD programs. This is initially achieved by increasing the rate at which UR undergraduates become involved in cutting-edge research at our institution. An important component of our MARC program is to create a larger community of UR and first-generation-in-college students who identify as biomedical researchers and who help promote each other towards PhD-level graduate training. Until this year, this community at UCSC included the 14 MARC scholars and the 23 undergraduates supported by the IMSD program. As the IMSD undergraduate program has ceased and IMSD graduate training transitioned to a T32 program, we are requesting a total of 26 slots for the MARC program to allow us to maintain the core of this larger community of undergraduate STEM Diversity scientists. The aims of this training program proposal are to: 1 - develop a program for a larger MARC cohort of 26 students that fuses the strongest components of our current MARC and IMSD programs. This program will incorporate recruitment, rigorous laboratory training, placement with faculty, and professional development. The challenges will be in how to scale up from the current 14 MARC trainees, however there are important lessons from the success of our IMSD program. The director of that program, Prof. Melissa Jurica, has joined MARC as co-PD so that best practices that she developed working with the larger IMSD undergraduate cohort can be incorporated. 2 - ensure that 100% of graduating MARC fellows develop strong independent research skills. We are approaching this challenge from two perspectives. First, we will develop a team approach to ensure adequate measurable progress in student development of research independence. Second, we will launch a program to have all students write an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP) application so that they can learn the skills of experimental design and grantsmanship. 3 - ensure that 100% of MARC fellows who are admitted into PhD programs are capable of persisting through to completion. We are developing a program to prepare students for the new types of social and professional challenges they will face in graduate school. MARC students will make contact with our alumni mentor network and from them learn the social and professional challenges to anticipate in their new environment. The members of the MARC fellow's mentoring team and alumni network will remain available after graduation to provide them with personalized mentoring and coaching as needed.

项目摘要 加州大学圣克鲁斯分校MARC计划的主要目标是招募和准备代表性不足 （UR）学生参加生物医学博士课程。最初，这是通过提高速率来实现的 我们的本科生参与了我们机构的尖端研究。一个重要的 我们MARC计划的组成部分是创建一个更大的UR和第一代社区 认同生物医学研究人员并帮助彼此促进博士学位的学生 研究生培训。直到今年，UCSC的这个社区包括14名MARC学者和23个学者 IMSD计划支持的本科生。随着IMSD本科课程的停止， IMSD研究生培训过渡到T32计划，我们要求MARC共有26个插槽 计划使我们能够保持这个更大的本科茎多样性社区的核心 科学家。该培训计划建议的目的是： 1-为一个融合最强的26名学生组成的较大的MARC队列制定计划 我们当前的MARC和IMSD计划的组件。该计划将结合招聘， 严格的实验室培训，教师的安置和专业发展。挑战将会 在如何从目前的14位MARC学员来扩大规模，但是有重要的教训 我们的IMSD计划的成功。该计划的主任梅利莎·朱丽卡（Melissa Jurica）教授加入了马克（Marc） Co-PD，以便她开发了与较大的IMSD本科生队列合作的最佳实践 合并。 2-确保100％即将毕业的Marc研究员发展出强大的独立研究技能。 我们正在从两个角度来应对这一挑战。首先，我们将开发团队方法 确保在研究独立性的学生发展方面有足够的可衡量进展。第二，我们 将启动一个计划，让所有学生写NSF研究生研究奖学金（GRFP） 应用程序，以便他们可以学习实验设计和授予技巧的技能。 3-确保获得博士学位课程的100％的马克研究员能够 坚持完成。我们正在制定一个计划，以为学生做好新类型的准备 他们将在研究生院面临的社会和专业挑战。马克学生将联系 借助我们的校友导师网络，从他们那里学习社会和专业挑战以期待 在他们的新环境中。 MARC研究员团队和校友网络的成员将 毕业后保持可用，以根据需要为他们提供个性化的指导和教练。