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

Discovery Corps 奖学金：剑桥结构数据库系统促进电子学习和本科生研究的网络增强 PUI 化学项目

• 批准号: 0725294
• 负责人: Gregory Ferrence
• 金额: $ 20万
• 依托单位: Board of Trustees of Illinois 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: 2007-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0725294&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Discovery; Corps; Fellowship; Cyber; Enhancing

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.

化学部支持伊利诺伊州立大学的格雷戈里·M·费伦斯担任2007-2008学年探索兵团高级研究员。Ferrence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所主要的本科生机构和芝加哥城市学院本科生研究合作(URC)中的10所两年制学院，也得到化学部的支持。Ferrence将访问合作学校，为参与的教职员工提供关于CSDS的使用以及将其纳入本科教学和研究的研讨会。该项目还将广泛利用网络学习和多地点视频会议，以促进30个不同机构的教员之间交流想法和最佳做法。该项目将建立在Ferrence与芝加哥城市学院URC和NSF支持的STaRBURSTT(科学教学和研究通过技术带来本科生优势)网络仪器联盟的参与基础上。参与机构将收到一份完整的、功能齐全的CSDS版本，用于他们的课程和本科生研究计划。教员还将测试CSDS模块的测试版，以帮助开发更广泛地适用于本科生研究/教学社区的工具。70多名化学教师和1000多名学生将在这个探索兵团项目的任期内受到影响。这个项目的影响将通过从参与的教职员工收集的调查来衡量。探索兵团奖学金计划寻求将研究专业知识与专业服务相结合的新的博士后和专业发展模式。探索兵团研究员通过解决国家需求领域的项目来利用他们的研究专长。他们的项目增强了研究能力和基础设施，并有助于劳动力发展和创造就业机会。探索团队计划同时支持博士后研究员和高级研究员。