Planning Grant for the Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth University

弗吉尼亚联邦大学英格和沃尔特·赖斯环境生命科学中心规划拨款

• 批准号: 0330540
• 负责人: Leonard Smock
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Virginia Commonwealth University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-01-15 至 2007-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0330540&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Inger; Walter; Rice

AbstractPlanning Grant for the Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences, Virginia Commonwealth UniversityA grant has been awarded to Virginia Commonwealth University under the direction of Dr. L. Smock to develop a strategic plan to guide the development of programs and infrastructure at the University's new biological field station, the Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Sciences. The site, consisting of about 350 acres of undeveloped land along the James River near Richmond, Virginia, supports a diversity of terrestrial and aquatic habitats that will greatly enhance VCU's research capabilities, university-level instruction, and outreach education programs for K-12 students and life-long learners. Establishment of this field station, which is only 30 minutes from downtown Richmond, is especially exciting because of its proximity to our urban campus and its ability to serve a relatively large urban and rural population of students of underrepresented ethnicity. The focus of the Planning Grant is to hold a series of workshops to develop a comprehensive strategic plan for the Center. Participants of one workshop will be drawn from field stations throughout the region, drawing on their experience to develop plans pertaining to administration, data management, and research and education programs at the station. A second workshop will bring together researchers from academic and government agencies to develop potential research collaborations focused on the ecology, conservation and policy issues of large rivers, this being the proposed primary focus of research at the Rice Center. A third set of workshops will focus on outreach education, bringing together appropriate K-12 teachers and administrators from the surrounding school districts, as well as potential partnering organizations and agencies, to develop a comprehensive plan for the development of outreach programs. The outcome of these activities will be a written 5-10 year strategic plan for the Rice Center.The proposed activities have both strong intellectual merit and broader impacts to the public. Development of the Rice Center, as guided by the outcome of this Planning Grant, will result in a field station with a clear direction toward supporting a wide range of collaborative research activities focused on the ecology of large rivers. The high number of students of underrepresented ethnicities both in universities and K-12 programs throughout the region who will have direct access to programs at the Rice Center is significant. This field station has the potential to greatly impact instructional activities throughout the region and to greatly enhance opportunities for faculty, university-students, K-12 programs and life-long learners.

弗吉尼亚联邦大学英格和沃尔特·赖斯环境生命科学中心的规划拨款在L.斯莫克制定了一项战略计划，以指导该大学新的生物野外站，英格和沃尔特赖斯环境生命科学中心的项目和基础设施的发展。 该网站，包括约350英亩未开发的土地沿着詹姆斯河附近里士满，弗吉尼亚州，支持陆地和水生栖息地的多样性，这将大大提高VCU的研究能力，大学水平的教学，并为K-12学生和终身学习者推广教育计划。 这个外地站的建立，这是从市中心里士满只有30分钟，是特别令人兴奋的，因为它靠近我们的城市校园和它的能力，以服务于一个相对较大的城市和农村人口的学生代表性不足的种族。 规划补助金的重点是举办一系列讲习班，为中心制定全面的战略计划。 其中一个讲习班的参加者将来自整个区域的野外台站，利用他们的经验制定与台站的行政管理、数据管理以及研究和教育方案有关的计划。 第二个研讨会将汇集来自学术和政府机构的研究人员，以发展潜在的研究合作，重点是大河的生态，保护和政策问题，这是水稻中心研究的主要重点。 第三组研讨会将侧重于外展教育，汇集来自周边学区的适当的K-12教师和管理人员，以及潜在的合作组织和机构，为外展计划的发展制定一个全面的计划。 这些活动的结果将是一个书面的5-10年战略计划的水稻中心。拟议的活动既有强大的知识价值和更广泛的影响，以公众。 水稻中心的发展，作为本规划补助金的结果的指导下，将导致一个外地站有一个明确的方向，以支持广泛的合作研究活动，重点是大河的生态。 在整个地区的大学和K-12课程中，代表性不足的种族的学生人数众多，他们将直接进入赖斯中心的课程。这个外地站有可能极大地影响整个地区的教学活动，并大大提高教师，大学生，K-12计划和终身学习者的机会。