Steer and trees summer research programs

转向和树木夏季研究计划

• 批准号: 8998023
• 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/8998023
• 关键词: Address; Community Outreach; Ecology; Educational Activities; Educational Curriculum; Educational process of instructing; Environment; Environmental Health; Evaluation; Faculty; Funding; Goals; Hand; High School Faculty; High School Student; 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; Science; Scientist; Staging; Students; Teenagers; Training; Training and Infrastructure; Trees; Universities; Work; base; career; career development; college; education research; environmental toxicology; experience; graduate student; hands on research; high school; programs; public health relevance; responsible research conduct; summer research; 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） 调查人员认为，研究是一个指导过程，为鼓励学生从事研究职业，他们需要与导师进行研究。 研究人员在宾夕法尼亚大学（University of Pennsylvania）开展了两个夏季研究计划，《环境科学研究与教育》（TEER）研究与教育计划，高中研究计划以及研究的短期教育经验（Steer）计划，本科生研究实习。树木和转向是通过其社区外展和参与核心（COEC）（COEC）的环境毒理学卓越中心（CEET）的教育活动。这些计划为高中和大学生提供了指导的夏季研究经验，并且每年夏天都与许多综合活动并行运行。通过树木和转向，调查人员正在建立一条年轻学者的管道，以解决环境健康问题。宾夕法尼亚州在基于现有的培训基础设施，强大的环境健康研究基础以及其教职员工对明天的科学家培训的承诺方面实现这些目标。 此外，由于树木计划由研究生教授，因此为他们提供了宝贵的课堂体验。到2012年，有47名高中学生参加了树木计划，有41名本科生参加了转向计划。 这两个计划均通过R25-ES016146资助，但调查人员建议按照NIEHS的建议继续根据Par-11-050继续进行，并通过与当地高中教师合作扩大科学课程来扩展该计划。