Bridging Biology and Physics Undergraduate Education through Nanoscience: A New Mexico Network Approach

通过纳米科学架起生物学和物理学本科教育的桥梁：新墨西哥州网络方法

• 批准号: 0633736
• 负责人: Elba Serrano
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: New Mexico State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-03-01 至 2011-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0633736&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Bridging; Biology; Physics; Undergraduate; Education

Biological Sciences (61)This project is developing a state-level educational network that unites faculty at community colleges with faculty at research universities in a shared teaching enterprise around the common theme of the integration of nanotechnology into biology classes. The project participants include biology and physics faculty from a diverse set of institutions in New Mexico: research institutions (New Mexico State University, Las Cruces and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque) and community colleges (Dine College, Shiprock, and New Mexico State University, Alamogordo branch campus). Nanoscience is the topical theme because it is an important interdisciplinary scientific area that is not well integrated into biology and physics undergraduate courses at these institutions. Project objectives are being achieved through a series of workshops focusing on three general areas: (1) Measurement at the Nanoscale: Exploring the Invisible, (2) Nanoscience and Energy Technology, and (3) Nanostructures and Biological Systems. The workshops include discussion of pedagogy and time and resources for production of learning materials such as course modules, case studies, and lecture presentations. These are being disseminated through the New Mexico Biomedical Research Infrastructure Network (NM-INBRE) of 6 state universities via its ACCESS Grid, the NMSU Teaching Academy, the NMSU Honors College, and a dedicated project public domain website. An Advisory Committee is providing oversight and assessment of project progress.INTELLECTUAL MERIT. The project unites a broad spectrum of faculty in physics and biology in a common enterprise, development of a collaborative educational network that uses an interdisciplinary approach to produce materials about nanoscience appropriate for use in undergraduate courses in biology and physics. In addition to promoting the introduction of nanoscience into two diverse disciplines the project is: providing faculty development experiences in a workshop setting and encouraging consideration of the teaching challenges faced by educators working in urban and rural settings with students of different socio-economic backgrounds. Educational components complement the research and teaching interests of the participating research faculty; therefore, the activities help faculty bridge research and education in the classroom. BROADER IMPACT. This collaborative team effort unites faculty from postsecondary minority institutions across the state of New Mexico. Women and minority faculty who are members of biology and physics departments are represented among the project participants. Materials produced by the project are being made freely available through dissemination efforts. This project is developing a network of committed science educators in the state of New Mexico who are developing synergistic strategies that cut across disciplinary and institutional boundaries. A longer term goal is to enlarge the intercollegial network developed in New Mexico into a broader national scale effort.

生物科学（61）该项目正在开发一个国家级的教育网络，将社区学院的教师与研究型大学的教师联合起来，围绕将纳米技术融入生物课程的共同主题开展共享教学活动。 项目参与者包括来自新墨西哥州不同机构的生物学和物理学教师：研究机构（新墨西哥州拉斯克鲁塞斯州立大学和新墨西哥州阿尔伯克基大学）和社区学院（希普洛克的戴恩学院和新墨西哥州州立大学阿拉莫戈多分支）。纳米科学是当前的主题，因为它是一个重要的跨学科科学领域，没有很好地融入这些机构的生物学和物理学本科课程。通过一系列侧重于三个一般领域的讲习班实现了项目目标：（1）纳米尺度的测量：探索不可见的，（2）纳米科学和能源技术，以及（3）纳米结构和生物系统。 讲习班包括讨论教学法以及制作学习材料的时间和资源，如课程模块、案例研究和演讲。 这些正在通过6所州立大学的新墨西哥州生物医学研究基础设施网络（NM-INBRE）通过其ACCESS Grid、NMSU教学学院、NMSU荣誉学院和一个专门的项目公共领域网站进行传播。一个咨询委员会正在监督和评估项目进展情况。该项目联合了广泛的教师在物理学和生物学在一个共同的企业，开发一个合作的教育网络，使用跨学科的方法来生产有关纳米科学的材料适合在生物学和物理学的本科课程使用。 除了促进将纳米科学引入两个不同学科之外，该项目还将：在讲习班环境中提供教师发展经验，并鼓励考虑在城市和农村环境中与不同社会经济背景的学生一起工作的教育工作者所面临的教学挑战。教育成分补充参与研究的教师的研究和教学兴趣;因此，活动帮助教师桥梁研究和教育在课堂上。更广泛的影响。这种协作团队的努力团结从整个新墨西哥州的中学后少数民族机构的教师。项目参与者中有生物系和物理系的女教员和少数族裔教员。该项目制作的材料通过传播工作免费提供。 该项目正在新墨西哥州建立一个致力于科学教育工作者的网络，他们正在制定跨越学科和机构界限的协同战略。 一个更长期的目标是扩大在新墨西哥州发展的校际网络，使之成为一个更广泛的全国范围的努力。