{"id":47,"date":"2019-11-07T12:50:14","date_gmt":"2019-11-07T17:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2026-09-05T18:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T22:51:14","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fullwidth\">\n<section class=\"cl-wrapper cl-menu-wrapper\"><nav id=\"\" class=\"cl-menu  \" data-name=\"about\" data-show-title=\"0\"><\/nav><\/section>\n<p><strong>Program Description<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U*STAR) program is a research and professional development program supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)\/National Institute of General Sciences (NIGMS) for <a href=\"https:\/\/diversity.nih.gov\/about-us\/population-underrepresented\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds<\/a>. The main goal of the program is to enhance the pool of underrepresented students earning baccalaureate and Ph.D. or M.D.\/Ph.D. degrees in biomedical research fields and ultimately to contribute to the diversification of the nation\u2019s scientific workforce.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Program Description The Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Undergraduate Student Training in Academic Research (U*STAR) program is a research and professional development program supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)\/National Institute of General Sciences (NIGMS) for undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds. The main goal of the program is to enhance the pool of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3435,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2550,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/2550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/marc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}