The CSU San Marcos MBRS / SCORE Project is a grant funded by the NIGMS (National Institute of General Medical Sciences) to advance the career development of seven science faculty in the College of Arts & Sciences. Support is given for research activities in the areas of psychology and bilingual culturally-sensitive computer voice language development, protein conformation attainment studies, molecular biology of marine organism structure/function, marine natural products antimicrobial studies, and psychopharmacology of drug action. The career development of faculty is accompanied by involvement of students who will develop research knowledge and skills to prepare them for advanced biomedical research careers. The student and faculty of the program participate in a Student Research Method Seminar Series and a Guest Lecturer/Conversations with Scientists Series.

     The goals of this project are to increase the number of grant applications, to increase the number of publications, to increase the number of minority students enrolled in the participating departments, and to increase the number of student authors on scientific publications.