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.

项目概要 加州大学圣克鲁斯分校 MARC 项目的主要目标是招募和培养代表性不足的人 （UR）学生进入生物医学博士课程。这最初是通过提高速率来实现的 UR 本科生参与我们机构的前沿研究。一个重要的 我们的 MARC 计划的一部分是创建一个更大的 UR 社区和大学第一代学生 被认为是生物医学研究人员并帮助彼此晋升为博士水平的学生 研究生培训。直到今年，UCSC 的这个社区还包括 14 名 MARC 学者和 23 名 本科生由IMSD项目支持。由于IMSD本科课程已经停止并且 IMSD 研究生培训过渡到 T32 计划，我们为 MARC 请求总共 26 个名额 计划使我们能够维持这个更大的本科生 STEM 多样性社区的核心 科学家。本培训计划提案的目的是： 1 - 为由 26 名学生组成的更大的 MARC 群体制定一个项目，融合最优秀的学生 我们当前的 MARC 和 IMSD 计划的组成部分。该计划将包括招聘、 严格的实验室培训、教师安置和专业发展。挑战将 问题在于如何扩大目前 14 名 MARC 学员的规模，但是，我们可以从中吸取重要的教训 我们的 IMSD 计划取得了成功。该项目的主任 Melissa Jurica 教授已加入 MARC，担任 共同开发，以便她与更大的IMSD本科生群体合作开发的最佳实践可以 被纳入。 2 - 确保 100% 即将毕业的 MARC 研究员培养强大的独立研究技能。 我们从两个角度应对这一挑战。首先，我们将制定团队方法 确保学生的研究独立性发展取得足够可衡量的进展。第二，我们 将启动一项计划，让所有学生撰写 NSF 研究生研究奖学金 (GRFP) 应用程序，以便他们能够学习实验设计和资助的技能。 3 - 确保 100% 被录取为博士课程的 MARC 研究员有能力 坚持到底直至完成。我们正在开发一个计划，帮助学生为新类型做好准备 他们在研究生院将面临的社会和职业挑战。 MARC 学生将联系 与我们的校友导师网络一起，向他们学习要预见的社会和职业挑战 在他们的新环境中。 MARC 研究员的指导团队和校友网络的成员将 毕业后仍然可以根据需要为他们提供个性化的指导和指导。