BiOengineering Research Education to AcceLerate Innovation in STEM

生物工程研究教育加速 STEM 创新

• 批准号: 10652133
• 负责人: Laurel Kuxhaus
• 金额: $ 13.53万
• 依托单位: CLARKSON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2027-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10652133
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BOREALIS - Abstract ”Engineering has a persistent diversity challenge,” states a recent National Academies report. The most impactful science comes from diverse teams working together, and diversity in the STEM workplace improves work engagement and performance, enhances the quality of research and provision of health care, and promotes innovation. The current homogeneity in engineering, both regionally at Clarkson University (CU) and nationally, motivates the BiOengineering Research Education to AcceLerate Innovation in STEM (BOREALIS) Scholars program, and inspires Clarkson’s equity-minded approach to better engage sociodemographically diverse regional students. To address these opportunities, BOREALIS is designed to recruit and enroll three cohorts of five sociodemographically diverse students (including Black and Indigenous People of Color and students with disabilities) especially from the rural, economically depressed North Country region of New York State, and educate, encourage, and support them to enter the bioengineering workforce via pursuit of graduate study in bioengineering. Students from the North Country often face challenges entering STEM fields and building scientific identities, such as scant academic preparation, an unwelcoming atmosphere from faculty, and navigating intersectionality of identities. Through a series of integrated and complementary educational experiences—(1) a summer bridge program; (2) first- and second- academic year activities; and (3) summer research experiences—combined with evidence-based mentor and mentee training, CU will foster BOREALIS Scholars’ successful transition into and completion of the Honors Program, positioning them to pursue graduate school in bioengineering or a related field. This new pathway leverages existing resources for student success. The research education plan includes new initiatives for student success during the first undergraduate years, and faculty training in and use of inclusive pedagogy and effective mentoring. The BOREALIS Scholars program at CU represents one small step towards maintaining America’s scientific leadership by investing in sociodemographically diverse students from the North Country. By the conclusion of the project, we will have: (1) created an evidence-based mentored portal and pathway for research-curious students to explore biomedical engineering early in their undergraduate career and (2) built and sustained cohorts of sociodemographically diverse students from rural backgrounds engaged in biomedical science and engineering research, leading to (3) an increase in the number of rural, diverse students pursuing bioengineering graduate study. These three aims will enable our goal of increasing the number of rural, diverse students pursuing bioengineering graduate school after CU.

北欧化工 - 摘要 美国国家科学院最近的一份报告指出，“工程学面临着持续的多样性挑战”。 有影响力的科学来自不同团队的共同努力，STEM 工作场所的多样性得到改善 工作投入和绩效，提高研究和医疗保健提供的质量，以及 促进创新，无论是克拉克森大学（CU）还是区域性工程。 在全国范围内，推动生物工程研究教育加速 STEM 创新 (BOREALIS) 学者计划，并激发克拉克森以平等为中心的方法更好地参与社会人口统计 为了抓住这些机会，BOREALIS 计划招收三名学生。 由五名社会人口统计不同的学生组成的群体（包括黑人和土著有色人种和 残疾学生），尤其是来自经济不景气的纽约北部乡村地区的学生 国家并教育、鼓励和支持他们通过攻读研究生进入生物工程队伍 来自北方国家的学生在进入 STEM 领域时经常面临挑战。 建立科学身份，例如学术准备不足、教师氛围不受欢迎， 通过一系列综合和互补的教育来驾驭身份的交叉性。 经验——(1) 夏季桥梁课程；(2) 第一学年和第二学年活动；以及 (3) 夏季活动； 研究经验——结合循证导师和学员培训，CU 将培育 BOREALIS 学者们成功过渡并完成荣誉计划，使他们能够追求 生物工程或相关领域的研究生院利用了学生的现有资源。 研究教育计划包括促进学生在第一阶段取得成功的新举措。 本科阶段，以及教师培训和使用包容性教学法和有效指导。 科罗拉多大学的 BOREALIS 学者计划代表着维持美国科学发展的一小步 通过投资于来自北方国家的社会人口多样化的学生来发挥领导作用。 在该项目中，我们将：（1）为对研究感兴趣的人创建一个基于证据的指导门户和途径 学生在本科生涯早期探索生物医学工程，并且（2）建立并持续 来自农村背景、从事生物医学科学和研究的社会人口学多样化的学生群体 工程研究，导致 (3) 从事工程研究的农村、多元化学生数量增加 这三个目标将使我们实现增加农村多样化数量的目标。 CU 毕业后攻读生物工程研究生的学生。