INBRE: FURMAN U: FACULTY AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

INBRE：弗尔曼大学：教师和本科生研究发展

基本信息

批准号：
8360742
负责人：
JOHN WHEELER
金额：
$ 35.83万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2011
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2011-07-01 至 2012-06-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8360742
关键词：
African American Area Award Biochemistry Bioinformatics Biology Biomedical Research Chemistry Collaborations Commit Educational process of instructing Expenditure Faculty Funding Funding Mechanisms Gender Goals Grant Historically Black Colleges and Universities Home environment Housing Individual Institution Laboratory Assistant Left Letters Mentors Minority Modeling National Center for Research Resources Neurosciences Personal Communication Physiology Population Positioning Attribute Principal Investigator Recruitment Activity Research Research Infrastructure Research Personnel Resources Rice Science Source South Carolina Strategic Planning Students Time Travel United States National Institutes of Health Universities Wages Work base college cost experience meetings member professor programs research and development willingness

项目摘要

This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. Building Biomedical Research Capacity with New Target Faculty Building on the successful SC INBRE model, three new target faculty have been identified for funding in the renewal, including (1) Dr. Onarae Rice, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience (hired 2006); (2) Dr. Karen Buchmueller, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry (hired 2007); and (3) Dr. David Hollis, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Neuroscience (hired 2008). Through a combination of NIH and Furman matching commitments, new target faculty will receive three years of teaching reduction (i.e., to consistently commit a minimum of 50% total effort to their research programs), three years of summer salary, two years support of a dedicated laboratory assistant, and five years of student, travel and general supplies support. In addition to these three faculty, Furman will use SC INBRE funds (matched by institutional support) for a fourth target faculty in Year 3 of the renewal. While we are planning for both expansion (e.g., Biology) and replacement (e.g. Biology, Chemistry) positions in research areas suitable for NIH funding by Year 3 (e.g., Neuroscience, Bioinformatics. Bioanalytical Chemistry), our goal will be to identify the most competitive applicants available using the significant research enhancements available through the INBRE funding mechanism, while proactively working to increase URM and gender diversity among the science faculty in the Furman Biomedical Faculty core to the greatest extent possible. Two of Furman's most successful target faculty, Dr. Jeff Petty (2 NIH-AREA and 2 major NSF research awards since 2005) and Dr. Eli Hestermann (1 NIH-AREA award, co-PI on HHMI-USE) will participate in collaboration/mentoring activities with faculty from Converse College, Erskine College, Newberry College, Greenville Technical College and Claflin University. Mentored faculty will travel to the Furman campus to conduct summer research across a broad spectrum of research areas. INBRE funding will facilitate expenditures for research supplies so that these faculty and their students can conduct biomedical research in their home institutions while collaborating with Furman's established core of investigators. Alternatively or concomitantly, participating institutions may also be invited to send a faculty/student research team to the Furman campus to engage in individual summer or sabbatical leave research experiences as increased interactions are proactively developed. Collaborations of Furman faculty with Winthrop faculty have already been described elsewhere in this proposal. Furman supports ten students each summer to conduct full-time research with our target faculty using NIH funding, in addition to the large number of biomedical research students supported via Furman Matching, Furman Advantage, Merck, Beckman Scholars and HHMI. Significantly, we have well-exceeded a self-imposed minimum that 30% of our INBRE scholars should come from URM populations each year (e,g., 60% are African-American in Summer 2009). By comparison, Furman's student body is 13% minority (increasing each year as a part of the university's strategic plan, 16% for the entering class of 2008). In the context of our INBRE renewal, we recognize two pressing needs: (1) Furman has a significant responsibility to utilize administrative support and university resources to educate and develop the local URM secondary science student base; (2) with its unique facilities, faculty and research resources, Furman has the opportunity to engage minority students from institutions statewide as summer research scholars. In order to impact the maximum number of URM students across South Carolina, we will rely on strategies that have worked effectively in our current INBRE cycle, which include letters and personal communication each year between our target faculty with faculty within the same academic departments at every HBCU in South Carolina (e.g., 17 HBCU applicants for 4 open positions in 2009). A requirement for participation as a Furman target faculty member includes assisting in recruiting URM students statewide, a willingness to accept these students as summer research colleagues, and providing continued mentoring throughout the academic year. To offset the expenses incurred by students traveling from other universities including summer housing, the summer research salary is set at $5,000 per summer (plus $750 travel to a professional meeting).

该子项目是利用资源的众多研究子项目之一由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目的主要支持并且子项目的首席研究员可能是由其他来源提供的，包括其他 NIH 来源。子项目可能列出的总成本代表子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， NCRR 赠款不直接向子项目或子项目工作人员提供资金。以新目标教师建设生物医学研究能力在成功的 SC INBRE 模式的基础上，确定了三名新的目标教师以在更新中获得资助，包括 (1) Onarae Rice 博士，神经科学助理教授（2006 年聘用）； (2) Karen Buchmueller 博士，生物化学助理教授（2007 年聘用）； (3) David Hollis 博士，生理学和神经科学助理教授（2008 年聘用）。通过 NIH 和弗曼的相结合的承诺，新的目标教师将获得三年的教学减少（即，始终将至少 50% 的总精力投入到他们的研究项目中）、三年的暑期工资、两年的学术支持。专职实验室助理，以及五年的学生、旅行和一般用品支持。除了这三名教师之外，弗曼还将在续约的第三年使用 SC INBRE 资金（与机构支持相匹配）来支持第四名目标教师。虽然我们计划在第 3 年之前在适合 NIH 资助的研究领域（例如神经科学、生物信息学、生物分析化学）扩展职位（例如生物学）和替换职位（例如生物学、化学），但我们的目标是确定最适合 NIH 资助的研究领域（例如神经科学、生物信息学、生物分析化学）。利用 INBRE 资助机制提供的重大研究增强功能，吸引有竞争力的申请者，同时积极努力最大程度地提高弗曼生物医学系核心科学系的 URM 和性别多样性可能的。弗曼最成功的两位目标教师 Jeff Petty 博士（自 2005 年以来荣获 2 项 NIH-AREA 奖和 2 项 NSF 主要研究奖）和 Eli Hestermann 博士（1 项 NIH-AREA 奖、HHMI-USE 联合 PI）将参与合作/与康弗斯学院、厄斯金学院、纽伯里学院、格林维尔技术学院和克拉夫林大学的教师一起开展指导活动。受指导的教师将前往弗曼校园进行广泛研究领域的夏季研究。 INBRE 的资金将促进研究用品的支出，以便这些教师及其学生能够在其所在机构进行生物医学研究，同时与弗曼既定的核心研究人员合作。或者或同时，参与机构也可能被邀请派遣教职员工/学生研究团队到弗曼校园，参与个人暑假或学术休假研究经验，同时积极发展更多的互动。弗曼教员与温思罗普教员的合作已在本提案的其他地方进行了描述。除了通过 Furman Matching、Furman Advantage、Merck、Beckman Scholars 和 HHMI 支持的大量生物医学研究学生之外，Furman 每年夏天还使用 NIH 资金支持 10 名学生与我们的目标教师一起进行全日制研究。值得注意的是，我们已经远远超过了自己设定的最低要求，即每年 30% 的 INBRE 学者应来自 URM 人口（例如，2009 年夏季，60% 是非裔美国人）。相比之下，弗曼学院的学生中有 13% 是少数族裔（作为大学战略计划的一部分，这一比例每年都在增加，2008 年入学的学生比例为 16%）。在我们更新INBRE的背景下，我们认识到两个紧迫的需求：（1）弗曼负有重大责任，利用行政支持和大学资源来教育和发展当地的URM中学理科学生群； (2) 凭借其独特的设施、师资和研究资源，弗曼有机会聘请全州院校的少数族裔学生作为暑期研究学者。为了影响南卡罗来纳州 URM 学生的最大数量，我们将依靠在当前 INBRE 周期中有效的策略，其中包括每年我们的目标教师与同一学术部门内的教师之间每年的信件和个人沟通。南卡罗来纳州的 HBCU（例如 2009 年 17 名 HBCU 申请 4 个空缺职位）。作为弗曼目标教员参与的要求包括协助在全州范围内招募 URM 学生、愿意接受这些学生作为暑期研究同事，以及在整个学年提供持续的指导。为了抵消学生从其他大学出差所产生的费用，包括暑期住宿费用，暑期研究工资定为每年 5,000 美元（加上参加专业会议的 750 美元旅费）。