Would you like to be a scientist? Discover Biomedical Sciences! - Phase I/II

你想成为一名科学家吗？

• 批准号: 7175105
• 负责人: SONSOLES DE LACALLE
• 金额: $ 19.8万
• 依托单位: CHARLES R. DREW UNIVERSITY OF MED & SCI
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-22 至 2011-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7175105
• 关键词: behavior; brain; career; children; clinical research; community; curriculum; elementary school; hand; health; model; schools; urban area

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This NCRR Science Education Partnership Award titled "Would you like to be a scientist? Discover Biomedical Sciences!" has two interrelated goals. On the one hand, it seeks to expose children from inner city elementary schools to the biomedical sciences, and, as a consequence, encourage them early on with the excitement of scientific discovery and health careers. On the other hand, it seeks to train science undergraduates to become good communicators of their science, involving them in bringing science - particularly health-related discoveries - to the public. To achieve these goals, we propose the following specific aims: Specific Aim 1: To create a science outreach program run by undergraduates in biomedical sciences, directed towards fourth grade students. This outreach program will have two components: A) a "reverse" science fair, modeled after the Kids Judge! Neuroscience Fairs that we have used in the past. This activity will be focused in neuroscience concepts, and will provide children with learning experiences that will establish the foundation for broad understanding of how the brain works and how brain functioning relates to behavior. B) a mentoring program between the 4th graders and the Biomedical Sciences undergraduates, whereby the college students will work with, and serve as a resource for the elementary school children for the science portion of their curriculum. Specific Aim 2: To establish a public outreach activity that will educate the general public on biomedical sciences and other health-related topics, using films with a scientific content, discussed by researcher or clinician chosen among those who can provide not only the best scientific expertise, but also a model to imitate. This application also addresses a critical barrier to progress in the field of minority health and health disparities, by contributing to increase the number of members of underrepresented groups that enter the biomedical workforce. There are two reasons for this. First, minority students in urban public schools often do not acquire essential academic skills necessary to pursue science careers. Second, as of today minority students do not have access to appropriate role models because underrepresented minorities account for a disproportionately low percentage of full time academic faculty (less than 4%) at US medical schools, and are less likely to hold senior academic rank even after adjusting for years as a faculty member or measures of academic productivity. Participation in our program will serve not only to increase access to science content and spur heightened interest in the children, but also this will come from students and faculty that 'talk like them and look like them', providing role models to whom the inner-city 4th graders can relate to.

描述（由申请人提供）：NCRR 科学教育合作伙伴奖的标题为“你想成为一名科学家吗？发现生物医学科学！”有两个相互关联的目标。一方面，它试图让内城区小学的孩子们接触生物医学科学，从而尽早鼓励他们对科学发现和健康事业的兴奋。另一方面，它力求培训理科本科生成为其科学的良好传播者，让他们将科学——特别是与健康相关的发现——带给公众。为了实现这些目标，我们提出以下具体目标： 具体目标 1：创建一个由生物医学本科生针对四年级学生开展的科学推广计划。该推广计划将由两个部分组成：A）“反向”科学博览会，以儿童法官为蓝本！我们过去使用过的神经科学博览会。这项活动将重点关注神经科学概念，并将为孩子们提供学习经验，为广泛理解大脑如何工作以及大脑功能与行为之间的关系奠定基础。 B）四年级学生和生物医学科学本科生之间的指导计划，大学生将与小学生一起工作，并作为小学生课程科学部分的资源。具体目标 2：开展公共外展活动，利用具有科学内容的电影，对公众进行生物医学科学和其他健康相关主题的教育，并由研究人员或临床医生从不仅能够提供最佳科学专业知识的人员中选出进行讨论，也是模仿的典范。 该应用程序还有助于增加进入生物医学劳动力的代表性不足群体的成员数量，从而解决少数族裔健康和健康差异领域取得进展的关键障碍。这有两个原因。首先，城市公立学校的少数民族学生往往无法获得从事科学事业所需的基本学术技能。其次，截至目前，少数族裔学生还无法获得适当的榜样，因为少数族裔在美国医学院全职学术教师中所占的比例过低（不到 4%），而且即使在少数族裔中担任高级学术职务的可能性也较小。在调整了担任教职人员多年或学术生产力衡量标准之后。参与我们的计划不仅可以增加孩子们接触科学内容的机会，激发孩子们更高的兴趣，而且这也将来自“像他们一样说话、看起来像他们”的学生和教师，为他们提供榜样，让他们的内心城市四年级学生可以体会到。