MARC at UVI: Developing a Researcher Identity

UVI 的 MARC：培养研究人员身份

• 批准号: 8852618
• 负责人: TERESA ANN TURNER
• 金额: $ 19.58万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-09-01 至 2016-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8852618
• 关键词: Admission activity; Biomedical Research; CCL7 gene; Communities; Control Groups; Development; Educational Curriculum; Educational workshop; Enrollment; Evaluation; Extramural Activities; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Health; Institution; Measurable; Mentors; Methods; Minority; Pathway Analysis; Pathway interactions; Population; Research; Research Personnel; Research Training; Scientist; Social Network; Structure; Students; Sum; United States Virgin Islands; Universities; Visit; career; design; experience; improved; interest; peer; programs; role model; skills; success; symposium

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The MARC Program at the University of the Virgin Islands, which serves a unique minority population, proposes to contribute the health of the Nation by developing students as biomedical researchers. To accomplish this, UVI will build on its record of previous success. In the last funding cycle, 66% of UVI MARC graduates enrolled in doctoral programs. The overall goal of this proposal is that 75% will enroll in doctoral programs directly after graduation. UVI will achieve this improvement by a comprehensive approach involving MARC students, pre-MARC students, and all UVI undergraduates interested in biomedical research careers. The measurable objectives are that the program will: (1) provide a rigorous curriculum that develops both verbal and quantitative skills; (2) provide research training opportunities both through extramural summer research experiences and through academic year experiences designed to prepare students for these opportunities; (3) provide students with a clearly articulated career pathway to admission to highly selective research universities and a structure for success; (4) develop strong partnerships with research-intensive institutions, including T32 funded programs; (5) develop professional networks for UVI students and faculty; (6) increase the students' understanding of the biomedical research needs relevant to the U.S. Virgin Islands and minority communities nationally. These objectives will be accomplished by a multifaceted program including: (1) development of pedagogical skills of faculty and a new MARC curriculum designed to prepare students for research training experiences and increase competitiveness, (2) extramural research training, (2) presentations of results at conferences, (3) visits by scientists, providing students with biomedical research seminars, workshops, and opportunities to interact with role models and expand their professional networks, (4) special workshops designed to provide the steps in a clear career pathway, (5) a network of support by UVI faculty, peers, and summer research mentors. A new external evaluator will conduct rigorous formative and summative evaluation, including both traditional evaluation methods and social network analysis designed to compare students' development to a control group. In sum, UVI MARC has carefully developed a program to improve on its historically successful program, which produced 13 PhDs over the last 10 years from a pool of 2-3 MARC BS graduates a year.

描述（由申请人提供）：维尔京群岛大学的MARC计划为独特的少数民族人口提供服务，建议通过发展学生为生物医学研究人员来贡献国家的健康。为此，UVI将基于其先前成功的记录。在最后一个资金周期中，有66％的UVI MARC毕业生参加了博士课程。该提案的总体目标是，毕业后，有75％的人将直接参加博士课程。 UVI将通过涉及MARC学生，MARC学生和所有对生物医学研究职业感兴趣的UVI大学生的全面方法来实现这一改进。可衡量的目标是该计划将：（1）提供一种严格的课程，既可以发展言语和定量技能； （2）通过校外研究经验以及旨在为学生准备这些机会的学年经验提供研究培训机会； （3）为学生提供明确的职业途径，以获得高度选择性的研究大学的入学和成功的结构； （4）与研究密集型机构（包括T32资助的计划）建立牢固的合作伙伴关系； （5）为UVI学生和教师开发专业网络； （6）增加学生对与美国维尔京群岛和少数民族社区有关的生物医学研究需求的理解。 These objectives will be accomplished by a multifaceted program including: (1) development of pedagogical skills of faculty and a new MARC curriculum designed to prepare students for research training experiences and increase competitiveness, (2) extramural research training, (2) presentations of results at conferences, (3) visits by scientists, providing students with biomedical research seminars, workshops, and opportunities to interact with role models and expand their professional networks, （4）旨在在清晰职业途径中提供步骤的特殊研讨会，（5）UVI教师，同龄人和夏季研究导师的支持网络。新的外部评估者将进行严格的形成性和总结性评估，包括传统的评估方法和旨在将学生的发展与对照组进行比较的社交网络分析。总而言之，UVI Marc仔细制定了一项计划，以改善其历史成功的计划，该计划在过去的10年中从2-3个MARC BS毕业生的库中产生了13个博士学位。