Discovery Corps Fellowship: Cyber-Enhancing PUI Chemistry Programs by Cambridge Structural Database System Facilitated e-Learning and Undergraduate Research

化学学部支持伊利诺伊州立大学的Gregory M. Ferrence担任2007-2008学年探索队高级研究员。ference将开发剑桥结构数据库（CSD）的教学子集以及以使用剑桥结构数据库系统（CSDS）为中心的教育模块，这些模块将分发给大约20个主要的本科院校和芝加哥城市学院本科研究合作（URC）中的10个两年制学院，也由化学部门提供支持。参考资料会到访合作学校，为参与的教师提供工作坊，讲解如何使用CSDS，以及如何将其纳入本科教学和研究。该计划亦会广泛利用网络学习和多地点视像会议，促进三十间不同院校的教员交流意见和最佳实践。该项目将建立在ference与芝加哥城市学院URC和美国国家科学基金会支持的STaRBURSTT（科学教学和研究通过技术带来本科优势）网络仪器联盟的合作基础上。参与的院校将获得一个完整的、功能齐全的CSDS版本，用于他们的课程作业和本科研究项目。教师还将测试CSDS模块的测试版，以帮助开发更广泛地为本科研究/教学社区所使用的工具。超过70名化学教师和1000多名学生将在探索队项目的任期内受到影响。这个项目的影响将从参与的教师收集的调查来衡量。探索队奖学金计划寻求新的博士后和专业发展模式，将研究专长与专业服务相结合。探索队成员通过解决国家需要领域的项目利用他们的研究专长。他们的项目提高了研究能力和基础设施，有助于劳动力发展和创造就业机会。探索队项目同时支持博士后和高级研究员。

The Division of Chemistry supports Gregory M. Ferrence of Illinois State University as a Discovery Corps Senior Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year. Ferrence will develop a teaching subset of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) along with educational modules centered on the use of the Cambridge Structural Database System (CSDS), which will be disseminated to ~twenty primarily undergraduate institutions and to the ten two-year colleges in the Chicago City Colleges Undergraduate Research Collaborative (URC), also supported by the Chemistry Division. Ferrence will visit the partner schools to provide workshops to participating faculty on the use of the CSDS and its incorporation into undergraduate teaching and research. The project also will make extensive use of cyber-learning and multi-site video conferencing to facilitate the exchange of ideas and best practices among faculty at the thirty diverse institutions. This project will build on Ferrence's involvement with the Chicago City Colleges URC and the NSF-supported STaRBURSTT (Science Teaching and Research Bring Undergraduate Strengths Through Technology) cyber-instrumentation consortium. Participating institutions will receive a complete, fully functional version of the CSDS to use in their coursework and undergraduate research programs. Faculty also will be expected to test beta versions of the CSDS modules to help develop tools more widely accessible to the undergraduate research/teaching community. More than seventy chemistry faculty and over a thousand students will be impacted over the tenure of this Discovery Corps project. The impact of this project will be measured from surveys collected from participating faculty.The Discovery Corps Fellowship Program seeks new postdoctoral and professional development models that combine research expertise with professional service. Discovery Corps Fellows leverage their research expertise through projects that address areas of national need. Their projects enhance research capacity and infrastructure and contribute to workforce development and job creation. The Discovery Corps Program supports both Postdoctoral Fellows and Senior Fellows.