URC Planning Grant for INSPIRE: Interstate Network of Science Programs Integrating Research and Education

该奖项来自化学系，用于资助本科生研究中心(URC)的规划拨款。少年派是Lon J.Mathias，由联合少年派Pollyanne Franz协助。这笔规划赠款最初将把南密西西比大学PI与来自圣诺伯特学院(威斯康星州格林湾)和威斯康星大学史蒂文斯分校的合作者联系起来。这些参与者将主持一次研讨会，来自不同类型机构(高中、社区学院、学院和大学)的教师将参加，并支持密西西比州研究生教育联盟(AGEM)和密西西比州少数民族参与联盟(MAMP)等支持团体。讲习班将制定课程修改模式，强调接触化学和聚合物科学的研究，适合他们所服务机构的学生。一个目标是用一个以项目为导向的研究体验的实验室来修改现有的基于普通化学探究的讲座课程。计划拨款还将促进资源和培训材料的开发，以帮助教育工作者开展研究活动；开发高中初中-高中模式，开始大学前的研究体验；以及制定计划，为学生提供互联网接入共享仪器计划，以便实时进行实验。该项目将开发一个实体和虚拟中心，所有教育工作者都可以使用这些模块来实施课程改革(增加对理科和非理科专业的研究)，并在所有级别提供新的研究项目。

The award from the Chemistry Division supports an Undergraduate Research Centers (URC) planning grant. The PI is Lon J. Mathias assisted by co-PI Pollyanne Franz. This planning grant will initially connect the University of Southern Mississippi PIs with collaborators from St. Norbert College (Green Bay, WI) and University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. These participants will host a workshop that will involve faculty from different types of institutions (high schools, community colleges, colleges and universities) and support groups such as the Alliance for Graduate Education in Mississippi (AGEM), and the Mississippi Alliance for Minority Participation (MAMP). The workshop will formulate curriculum modification models that emphasize exposure to research in chemistry and polymer science appropriate to the students at the institutions that they serve. One goal is to modify an existing general chemistry inquiry based lecture course with a laboratory that is a project-oriented research experience. The planning grant will also foster development of resource and training materials to aid educators in implementing research activities; development of a high school junior-senior model for initiating pre-college research experiences; and development of plans for an Internet-access shared instrumentation program for students to carry out experiments in real time. The project will develop a physical and virtual center with modules that all educators can use to implement course changes (that increase exposure to research for science and non-science majors alike) and offer new research projects at all levels.