REU Site: Injury Science Research Experience for Undergraduates

REU 网站：本科生损伤科学研究经验

• 批准号: 2149555
• 负责人: Flaura Winston
• 金额: $ 39.25万
• 依托单位: The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-09-01 至 2025-08-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149555&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Injury; Science; Research

Injuries and violence remain the leading causes of death and acquired disability for children, youth, and young adults in the U.S. and worldwide. The Injury Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CHRP) provides a personalized internship experience for a diverse pool of talented interns with the aim of inspiring the pursuit of careers in science, technology, and engineering. This Site immerses interns in a 10-week rigorous, interdisciplinary program of mentored scholarly research, professional development, and graduate school preparation that results in a broadened awareness of STEM career opportunities. The overarching goal is to provide research training designed to encourage and enable students from STEM-limited schools and those who are underrepresented in STEM to pursue advanced degrees, and ultimately, careers in science and engineering. Students benefit from an increase in knowledge, develop interest in science and engineering, gain professional development, develop the ability to solve real-world problems, and prepare to optimize technology for safety solutions through user-centered, participatory design and human factors research. Traffic injuries and violence have substantially increased, fueled by societal changes and the pandemic. This requires innovative ideas and an expanded workforce focused on injury science to effectively develop and implement novel prevention strategies. The Injury Science Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia’s Center for Injury Research and Prevention (CHRP) provides a personalized internship experience for a diverse pool of talented interns with the aim of inspiring the pursuit of careers in science, technology, and engineering. This REU site renewal project focuses on the leading injury risks to children – traffic crashes, sports-related injury, and violence. Students will have access to and engage in research projects with faculty using large, unique datasets through data science; leverage large clinical exposure of human factors engineering (to optimize safe driving and care delivery during crises); employ neuroscience preeminence for bench-to-bedside translational science (animal models, virtual reality and magnetoencephalographic assessments, and head impact sensors); and interact with a large and diverse clinical population to advance pediatric rehabilitation. A cohort of 8 interns each year will engage in Injury Science to advance research and training innovations that elucidate injury mechanisms and develop novel prevention strategies and technologies as the future injury science workforce. New for this renewal are increased recruitment levels of racial/ethnic minorities from STEM-limited schools and increased participation from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) through nationwide on-site HBCU recruitment visits and dedicated positions for HBCU students.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.

伤害和暴力仍然是美国和世界各地儿童、青少年和年轻人死亡和后天残疾的主要原因。费城儿童医院伤害研究和预防中心的本科生伤害科学研究经验 (REU) 网站。 CHRP）为多元化的优秀实习生提供个性化的实习体验，旨在激发他们对科学、技术和工程职业的追求。该网站让实习生沉浸在为期 10 周的时间中。这是一项严谨的跨学科计划，涵盖学术研究、专业发展和研究生院准备，旨在提高人们对 STEM 职业机会的认识。总体目标是提供研究培训，旨在鼓励和帮助来自 STEM 有限学校的学生和那些有能力的学生。在 STEM 中攻读高级学位的人数不足，最终，学生可以从知识的增长中受益，培养对科学和工程的兴趣，获得专业发展，培养解决现实问题的能力，并做好准备。通过以下方式优化安全解决方案的技术在社会变革和流行病的推动下，以用户为中心的参与式设计和人为因素研究大幅增加，这需要创新理念和扩大专注于伤害科学的人员队伍，以有效制定和实施新的伤害预防策略。费城儿童医院伤害研究与预防中心 (CHRP) 的本科生科学研究体验 (REU) 站点为各种才华横溢的实习生提供个性化的实习体验，旨在激发对科学职业的追求， REU 网站更新项目重点关注儿童的主要伤害风险——交通事故、运动相关伤害和暴力，学生将可以通过数据科学使用大型、独特的数据集与教师一起参与研究项目。利用人因工程的大量临床经验（以优化危机期间的安全驾驶和护理服务）；利用神经科学优势进行实验室到临床的转化科学（动物模型、虚拟现实和脑磁图评估以及头部碰撞传感器）；一个大和每年有 8 名实习生参与损伤科学领域，以推进研究和培训创新，阐明损伤机制，并随着未来损伤科学劳动力的增加而开发新的预防策略和技术。通过全国范围内的现场 HBCU 招聘访问和为 HBCU 学生提供专门职位，提高了 STEM 限制学校中少数族裔/族裔的招生水平，并提高了传统黑人学院和大学 (HBCU) 的参与度。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。