Steer and trees summer research programs

转向和树木夏季研究计划

• 批准号: 8517384
• 负责人: JEFFREY M FIELD
• 金额: $ 5.93万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-15 至 2018-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8517384
• 关键词: Address; Community Outreach; Ecology; Education; Educational Activities; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Hand; Individual; Instruction; Internships; Mentors; National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; Participant; Pennsylvania; Positioning Attribute; Principal Investigator; Process; Research; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Running; STEM career; School Teachers; Science; Scientist; Staging; Students; Teenagers; Training; Training and Infrastructure; Trees; Universities; Work; base; career; career development; college; environmental toxicology; experience; graduate student; high school; programs; public health relevance; responsible research conduct; undergraduate research; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) The investigators believe that research is a mentoring process, and that to encourage students to pursue research careers, they need hands on research with a mentor. The investigators operate two summer research programs at the University of Pennsylvania, the Teen Research and Education in Environmental Science (TREES) Program, a high school research program and the Short Term Educational Experiences for Research (STEER) Program, an undergraduate research internship. TREES and STEER are educational activities of the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET) through its Community Outreach and Engagement Core (COEC). The programs offer mentored summer research experiences to high school and college students and are run in parallel each summer with many integrated activities. Through TREES and STEER, the investigators are building a pipeline of young scholars to address environmental health problems. Penn is well positioned to achieve these goals based on its existing training infrastructure, its strong environmental health research base and the commitment of its faculty to train tomorrow's scientists. Additionally, because the TREES program is taught by graduate students, it provides them with valuable classroom experience. Through 2012, 47 high school students participated in the TREES program and 41 undergraduates participated in the STEER program. Both programs are funded through R25-ES016146, but the investigators propose to continue them under PAR-11-050 as recommended by the NIEHS as well as expand the program by working with local high school teachers to expand their science curriculum.

描述（由申请人提供） 研究人员认为，研究是一个指导过程，为了鼓励学生从事研究职业，他们需要在导师的指导下进行实际研究。 研究人员在宾夕法尼亚大学开展了两个夏季研究项目，即青少年环境科学研究和教育（TREES）项目（一项高中研究项目）和短期研究教育经验（STEER）项目（一项本科生研究实习项目）。 TREES 和 STEER 是环境毒理学卓越中心 (CEET) 通过其社区外展和参与核心 (COEC) 开展的教育活动。这些项目为高中生和大学生提供指导性的夏季研究经验，并且每年夏天与许多综合活动同时进行。通过 TREES 和 STEER，研究人员正在建立一批年轻学者来解决环境健康问题。宾夕法尼亚大学凭借其现有的培训基础设施、强大的环境健康研究基础以及教师对培养未来科学家的承诺，完全有能力实现这些目标。 此外，由于 TREES 课程由研究生教授，因此为他们提供了宝贵的课堂经验。截至 2012 年，已有 47 名高中生参加了 TREES 计划，41 名本科生参加了 STEER 计划。 这两个项目均通过 R25-ES016146 资助，但研究人员建议按照 NIEHS 的建议在 PAR-11-050 ​​下继续实施，并通过与当地高中教师合作扩展他们的科学课程来扩展该项目。