{"id":5487,"date":"2020-01-24T10:20:52","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T15:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/?p=5487"},"modified":"2020-04-17T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T12:53:13","slug":"marc-ustar-program-apply-by-march-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/marc-ustar-program-apply-by-march-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"MARC U*STAR Program: Apply by March 20th"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a student from an underrepresented racial\/ethnic group, a student with a disability, or a first-generation college student, and have an interest in research in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), fields?&nbsp; If yes, MARC U*STAR may be the right program for you! It is a 2-year program designed to increase the number of underrepresented (URM) students pursuing graduate degrees, e.g. Ph.D., In the biomedical sciences. <a href=\"https:\/\/today.uri.edu\/news\/uri-scientists-awarded-1-25-million-grant-to-provide-research-opportunities-to-minority-students\/\">Read more<\/a> about the program.<\/p>\n<p>MARC: Maximizing access to research Careers<\/p>\n<p>U*STAR: Undergraduate student training in academic research<\/p>\n<p><strong>Eligibility:<\/strong> Rising junior (current sophomores), 3.0+ GPA, Underrepresented, enrolled in a STEM program, full-time student and interested in pursuing a graduate degree in biomedical sciences.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Benefits of program:<\/strong> Generous tuition scholarship, monthly stipend, paid summer research internship, travel funds for scientific meeting and professional career development guidance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Course credit:<\/strong> Yes, up to 12 credits throughout 2-year experience<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research Area:<\/strong> STEM<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/XnKj8EpuCmX1WWa96\">APPLY<\/a> by March 20th.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact: Dr. Bryan Dewsbury, dewsbury@uri.edu, or Dr. Niall Howlett, nhowlett@uri.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are you a student from an underrepresented racial\/ethnic group, a student with a disability, or a first-generation college student, and have an interest in research in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math), fields?&nbsp; If yes, MARC U*STAR may be the right program for you! It is a 2-year program designed to increase the number of underrepresented [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1858,"featured_media":5493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[42,33],"class_list":["post-5487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-stem","tag-undergraduate-research"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1858"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5487"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5487\/revisions\/5517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.uri.edu\/undergraduate-research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}