Basic Science Scholars Program

基础科学学者计划

• 批准号: 0649235
• 负责人: Charles Thompson
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Massachusetts Lowell
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-02-01 至 2010-01-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0649235&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Basic; Science; Scholars; Program

The Basic Science Scholars (BASS) Program at the University of Massachusetts Lowell focuses on providing interdisciplinary research experiences for undergraduate students. The BASS program provides students with a rigorous, interdisciplinary, research-based program, which integrates molecular genetics, computer science and engineering. Participating scholars receive academic support and intensive mentoring with the objective of promoting their entry into, and completion of, doctoral programs in science and engineering. BASS Scholars spend two consecutive years (Junior and Senior years) in the program and undertake research projects under the direction of one or more faculty mentors concomitant with their baccalaureate degree courses. The objective is to equip students with the requisite research skills for the successful pursuit of doctoral degrees in STEM disciplines.The research investigates genetics and computer science methodologies, which can used to reconnect individuals to their lost ancestry. The genetics component of the BASS Program focuses on linking African-Americans and Caribbean blacks to their ancestral ethnic groups in Africa via Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA analysis. The development of new computer technologies and methodologies that allow the rapid genetic analysis of the human DNA data collected is the focus of engineering and computer science participants.

马萨诸塞大学洛厄尔分校的基础科学学者(BASS)项目专注于为本科生提供跨学科研究经验。BASS课程为学生提供了一个严谨的、跨学科的、以研究为基础的课程，该课程整合了分子遗传学、计算机科学和工程学。参与的学者得到学术支持和密集的指导，目的是促进他们进入并完成科学和工程方面的博士课程。巴斯奖学金学生连续两年(大三和大四)参加该项目，并在一名或多名教师导师的指导下进行研究项目，同时还提供学士学位课程。其目的是让学生掌握成功攻读STEM学科博士学位所需的研究技能。这项研究调查遗传学和计算机科学方法，可以用来将个人与他们失去的祖先重新联系起来。BASS计划的遗传学部分侧重于通过Y染色体和线粒体DNA分析将非裔美国人和加勒比黑人与他们在非洲的祖先种族群体联系起来。开发新的计算机技术和方法，以便对收集的人类DNA数据进行快速基因分析，是工程学和计算机科学参与者的重点。