UT Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Environmental Health Sciences

德州大学环境健康科学暑期本科生研究经验

基本信息

批准号：
10115728
负责人：
Frank E. Loeffler
金额：
$ 10.19万
依托单位：
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE KNOXVILLE
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2018
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2018-03-01 至 2024-02-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10115728
关键词：
Address Advisory Committees Aerospace Engineering African American Arts Bachelor&apos s Degree Belief Biomedical Engineering Biomedical Research Biotechnology Communication Counseling Discipline Doctor of Philosophy Educational Intervention Educational workshop Engineering Ensure Entrepreneurship Environment Environmental Health Ethics Evaluation Experimental Designs Faculty Federal Government Female Funding Generations Goals Government Agencies Health Sciences Hispanics Immersion Individual Inequality Instruction Intervention Knowledge Laboratories Latino Link Mathematics Mechanics Medical Mentorship Minority Groups Mission Motivation Occupational Participant Population Privatization Research Research Design Research Project Summaries Research Training Resources Rural Appalachia Scholarship Science Scientist Self Efficacy Siblings Statistical Data Interpretation Students Surveys Talents Technology Tennessee Training Underrepresented Minority Underrepresented Populations United States National Institutes of Health Universities Work career career development cohort college education pathway ethnic disparity experience faculty mentor gender disparity graduate student hands on research higher education interest minority scientist minority student outreach posters programs racial disparity recruit role model summer research undergraduate research undergraduate research experience undergraduate student underrepresented minority student university student

项目摘要

UT Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Environmental Health Sciences Project Summary This research and educational intervention effort proposes to recruit ten talented and diverse underrepresented undergraduate students from across the U.S. to the University of Tennessee (UT) campus for immersive ten- week summer research experiences in the biomedical sciences. In a unique partnership between the Center for Environmental Biotechnology, the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, and the Office of Undergraduate Research, we are proposing to implement research challenges for underrepresented undergraduate students under the general theme of ‘health, science, and the environment’. For this effort, we have enlisted an academically (MD, Ph.D., and/or DVM credentials across 11 departmental affiliations) and culturally (African-American, Hispanic and Latino, rural Appalachian, female, first-generation) diverse group of 20 faculty role models, 60% with a lineage of NIH funding, to provide mentorship and rigorous hands-on research training to our students with a focused goal of building self-efficacy and strengthening persistence toward their pursuit of an advanced degree in the biomedical sciences. Complementary to their research responsibilities, students will also engage in workshops and classroom instruction on experimental design, ethics, statistical analysis, laboratory management, entrepreneurship, and science communication to ensure strong scholarship and career development metrics are upheld across the science, technology, engineering, mathematical, and medical science (STEMM) disciplines. Student research will culminate in a campus-wide and publicly open poster session that will be jointly held among all of UT’s various internal and external summer undergraduate research programs. A robust recruitment plan has been developed to capture our desired student clientele from historically black, Hispanic-serving, and other smaller non-research intensive liberal arts colleges that provide excellent instruction but little in the way of independent laboratory inquiry. As well, an evaluation plan is in place for surveying immediate and long-term goal attainments, an Advisory Committee has been convened for independent project oversight and counsel, and a dissemination plan will be implemented to promote local and national distribution of our findings through research scholarship by our undergraduate participants and their faculty mentors and use of our undergraduates as science spokespersons within our summer K-12 outreach activities. Collectively, this outreach and intervention mission will enhance the retention of underrepresented minorities in the STEMM disciplines and serve to bridge the racial, ethnic, and gender disparity gaps inherent to the U.S. biomedical higher education and workforce fields.

德州大学环境健康科学暑期本科生研究经验项目概要这项研究和教育干预工作建议招募十名才华横溢且代表性不足的多元化人士来自美国各地的本科生来到田纳西大学 (UT) 校园进行沉浸式十生物医学科学周夏季研究经验。环境生物技术系、机械、航空航天和生物医学工程系以及本科生研究办公室，我们建议为代表性不足的人实施研究挑战为了实现这一目标，我们以“健康、科学和环境”为总主题。已获得学术资格（MD、Ph.D 和/或 DVM 证书，涵盖 11 个部门）并且文化上（非裔美国人、西班牙裔和拉丁裔、阿巴拉契亚农村地区、女性、第一代）多元化群体 20 名教师榜样，其中 60% 拥有 NIH 资助血统，提供指导和严格的实践研究对我们的学生进行培训，其重点目标是建立自我效能并加强对他们的目标的坚持追求生物医学科学的高级学位，以补充他们的研究职责，学生还将参加有关实验设计、伦理学、统计的研讨会和课堂教学分析、实验室管理、创业和科学传播，以确保强大的奖学金职业发展指标在科学、技术、工程、数学和医学科学（STEMM）学科的学生研究将在全校范围内公开开放。海报会议将在 UT 的所有内部和外部暑期本科生之间联合举行研究计划已经制定，以吸引我们想要的学生客户。历史上黑人、西班牙裔和其他规模较小的非研究密集型文理学院提供很好的指导，但很少有独立的实验室调查。此外，还制定了评估计划。为了调查近期和长期目标的实现情况，成立了一个咨询委员会独立的项目监督和咨询，并将实施一项传播计划，以促进当地和通过我们的本科生参与者及其他们的研究奖学金在全国范围内分发我们的研究成果教师导师，并在夏季 K-12 推广活动中使用我们的本科生作为科学发言人总的来说，这一外展和干预任务将有助于保留代表性不足的人。 STEMM 学科中的少数群体，并有助于弥合种族、民族和性别差距固有的差距美国生物医学高等教育和劳动力领域。