URM: Mentoring of Minority Undergraduate Students through Research Focused on the Ecology of Disease in the US-Mexico borderlands

URM：通过以美国-墨西哥边境地区疾病生态学为重点的研究来指导少数民族本科生

• 批准号: 0933979
• 负责人: Vanessa Lougheed
• 金额: $ 65万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at El Paso
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-09-01 至 2015-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0933979&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: URM; Mentoring; Minority; Undergraduate; Students

An award has been made to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) to establish an NSF Undergraduate Research and Mentoring (URM) program in order to increase the number of underrepresented minority undergraduate students who are prepared for, and/or motivated to continue on to, graduate school and careers in ecology, environmental science and the ecology of disease. A cohort consisting of four students will be recruited each year in the first four years of the grant, and will conduct exciting research projects on the ecology of disease in the US-Mexico borderlands. NSF funds will be used to support each undergraduate participant for a total of two years. Over the 5-year period of the grant, a total of sixteen students will participate in the program. Each student will be mentored by one of at least twelve faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences who are doing research related to the ecology of disease. The UTEP URM program will provide an intensive research and mentoring program that includes hands-on research, bi-weekly workshops, exposure to career opportunities through field trips spanning local to national destinations, and travel to scientific meetings. During the workshops, students will develop their own research project that will both complement the overall mission of their mentor's research and fit within the UTEP URM theme of biodiversity, global climate change, and disease distribution and dynamics in the borderlands. A web-based information tool will be developed, and it will provide a source of information and data for future research on human health and environmental management in the study region. Additional information is available by contacting Dr. Vanessa Lougheed, at [e-mail], or by visiting http://ael.utep.edu/research/urm.

得克萨斯大学埃尔帕索分校(UTEP)被授予建立NSF本科生研究和指导(URM)计划，以增加准备和/或有动力继续攻读生态、环境科学和疾病生态学研究生院和职业的少数族裔本科生人数。在拨款的头四年，每年将招募一个由四名学生组成的队列，并将在美墨边境地区开展令人兴奋的疾病生态研究项目。NSF的资金将用于支持每个本科生参与者总共两年的时间。在五年的助学金期间，共有16名学生将参与该计划。每个学生将由生物科学系至少12名从事与疾病生态学相关研究的教职员工中的一人指导。UTEP URM计划将提供密集的研究和指导计划，包括动手研究、每两周一次的研讨会、通过跨越当地和国家目的地的实地考察接触职业机会，以及参加科学会议。在研讨会期间，学生们将开发他们自己的研究项目，这些项目将补充他们导师研究的总体使命，并符合UTEP URM关于生物多样性、全球气候变化以及边境地区疾病分布和动态的主题。将开发一个基于网络的信息工具，它将为研究区域今后关于人类健康和环境管理的研究提供信息和数据来源。欲了解更多信息，请联系Vanessa Lougheed博士，或发送电子邮件至[e-mail]，或访问http://ael.utep.edu/research/urm.。