Implementation Project: Achieving Greater Confidence and Competence in Quantitative and Computational Skills in STEM Disciplines at Fisk University

实施项目：在菲斯克大学 STEM 学科的定量和计算技能方面获得更大的信心和能力

• 批准号: 1817282
• 负责人: Lee Limbird
• 金额: $ 221.45万
• 依托单位: Fisk University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-07-01 至 2025-06-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1817282&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Implementation; Project; Achieving; Greater; Confidence

Implementation Projects provide support to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to design, implement, study, and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the number of students receiving undergraduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) and enhance the quality of their preparation by strengthen education and research. The project at Fisk University seeks to build on previous successful efforts to increase participation of African-American students in STEM disciplines. The goal of the project is to increase the quantitative and computational confidence and competence of undergraduates, with a particular emphasis on biologically relevant sciences in all STEM disciplines, to meet the evolving needs of those disciplines so as to attract, prepare and sustain under-represented undergraduate STEM majors for post-graduate training and careers.The project has the objectives to: increase faculty confidence and competence in quantitative and computational approaches in the natural sciences and, reciprocally, increase awareness of contemporary problems in the biologically relevant life sciences for faculty in mathematics and computer science; develop and study the transdisciplinary Community of Practice model, which is modified to include a reciprocal, semi-structured instructional component; increase student confidence and competence in quantitative and computational approaches by early introduction of these tools into the required curriculum; and sustain and enhance deeper learning in gatekeeper courses using Supplemental Instruction. Each objective is supported by a set of evidence-based strategies and activities, some of which will be studied for effectiveness in the setting of this university. The project will be advised and evaluated for effectiveness by internal and external advisory boards and by an evaluator.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

实施项目为传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 提供支持，以设计、实施、研究和评估全面的机构工作，以增加获得科学、技术、工程和数学 (STEM) 本科学位的学生数量，并提高教育质量通过加强教育和研究来做好准备。菲斯克大学的该项目旨在以之前的成功努力为基础，提高非裔美国学生对 STEM 学科的参与度。 该项目的目标是提高本科生的定量和计算信心和能力，特别强调所有 STEM 学科中的生物相关科学，以满足这些学科不断变化的需求，从而吸引、准备和维持代表性不足的人才本科生 STEM 专业，用于研究生培训和职业。该项目的目标是：提高教师对自然科学定量和计算方法的信心和能力，并相应地提高教师对生物学相关生命科学中当代问题的认识。数学和计算机科学；开发和研究跨学科的实践社区模型，该模型经过修改以包括互惠的、半结构化的教学部分；通过尽早将这些工具引入所需课程，提高学生对定量和计算方法的信心和能力；使用补充指导维持和加强看门人课程中的更深入学习。每个目标都有一套基于证据的策略和活动的支持，其中一些策略和活动将在这所大学的环境中进行有效性研究。 该项目将由内部和外部顾问委员会以及评估员提供建议和评估其有效性。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Overall gestational weight gain mediates the relationship between maternal and child obesity

妊娠总体体重增加介导母婴肥胖之间的关系

• DOI: 10.1186/s12889-019-7349-1
• 发表时间: 2019-12
• 期刊: BMC Public Health
• 影响因子: 4.5
• 作者: Josey, Michele J.;McCullough, Lauren E.;Hoyo, Cathrine;Williams
• 通讯作者: Williams

Serum miR-17 levels are downregulated in obese, African American women with elevated HbA1c

HbA1c 升高的肥胖非裔美国女性的血清 miR-17 水平下调

• DOI: 10.1007/s40200-019-00404-3
• 发表时间: 2019-05-09
• 期刊: Journal of Diabetes & Metabolic Disorders
• 作者: Ariel Williams;Dara Mc Dougal;Willysha S. Jenkins;Natasha Greene;ClarLynda R. Williams;K. Kimbro
• 通讯作者: K. Kimbro