EPSCoR: South Carolina Science and Technology Infrastructure Improvement Activities

该项目将加强南卡罗来纳州三大学术研究机构的研究基础设施。 这三所大学将通过招聘13个终身教职职位，专注于教师发展活动。 南卡罗来纳州的大学将多样化的纳米科学教师在化学和生物化学系的核心与七个新聘人员将在纳米生物学和纳米光子学，电子学和化学工程领域的部门外作出六。 南卡罗来纳州医科大学计划通过在神经可塑性的分子和细胞基础领域招聘四名新员工，将他们的信号转导项目过渡到新的相关领域。 克莱姆森大学将启动一个基于材料的生物技术计划，通过整合材料科学和工程的优势，在他们的工程和科学学院和生物技术的优势，在他们的农业，林业和生命科学学院通过增加两个新的教师在细胞生物学和组织工程。 此外，该项目还将支持与少数民族机构的合作研究，为本科生、教师和高中生提供暑期研究计划，为研究生提供工业研究培训。该州改善基础设施的战略目标是建立专门的研究中心，与其他机构或私营部门合作，准备在全国范围内竞争，用于个人研究者提案、计划项目、共享仪器、研究培训奖励和中心赠款。 该州的目标与NSF EPSCoR计划的目标一致，即提高EPSCoR各州研究人员的国家竞争力。

This project will enhance the research infrastructure in the state of South Carolina's three major academic research institutions. The three universities will focus on faculty development activities through the recruitment of thirteen tenure-track positions. The University of South Carolina will diversify their core of nanoscience faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry with six of seven new hires to be made outside the department in the areas of nanobiology and nanoscale photonics, electronics, and chemical engineering. The Medical University of South Carolina plans to transition their Signal Transduction program into new related areas by making four new hires in the area of molecular and cellular basis of neuroplasticity. Clemson University will initiate a materials based biotechnology program by integrating the materials science and engineering strengths within their College of Engineering and Science and the biotechnology strengths within their College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences through the addition of two new faculty in cell biology and tissue engineering. In addition, the project will support initiatives involving collaborative research with minority institutions, summer research programs for undergraduates, teachers and high school students, and industrial research traineeships for graduate students.The state's strategy to effect infrastructure improvements has as its goal the establishment of specialized centers of research, poised to compete nationally, in partnership with other institutions or the private sector, for individual investigator proposals, program projects, shared instrumentation, research training awards, and center grants. The state's goal is consistent with the NSF EPSCoR program goal to increase the national competitiveness of the researchers in the EPSCoR states.