Workshops for Chemistry Faculty of the 21st Century

该项目将研究新的战略，以加强少数群体服务机构(MSI)的化学教师参与由国家科学基金会化学司支持的研究。该奖项的主要活动将是为这些机构的教职员工举办年度研讨会，帮助他们为化学系的项目制定竞争性提案。总体目标是在这些机构培养积极从事研究的教师，这些机构负责培养大量来自科学界代表性不足的群体的学士毕业生。为了保持全球竞争力，美国必须大力挖掘被忽视的智力人才库。根据定义，来自代表不足群体的学生的比例低于他们所占人口的比例。在学术界，很大一部分理工科水平的化学家来自代表性不足的群体，他们在为少数族裔服务的机构接受培训，但这些机构的研究资金很低。这一奖项将支持QEM帮助这些机构的教职员工开发提交的竞争性提案的努力。希望在这些机构建立一支足够多的积极从事研究的教师队伍，以保证这些机构的毕业生在现代化学研究方面得到出色的培训。

This project will investigate new strategies to enhance the participation of chemistry faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in research supported by the Chemistry Division of the National Science Foundation. The primary activity of this award will be an annual workshop for faculty at these institutions to help them to develop competitive proposals for programs in the Chemistry Division. The overall goal is to cultivate research-active faculty at these institutions -- institutions that are responsible for the training of significant numbers of baccalaureate students from groups that have been underrepresented in the sciences. In order to maintain its global competitiveness, the United States must work vigorously to tap neglected pools of intellectual talent. Students from underrepresented groups are, by definition, represented at lower rates than their fraction of the population. In academia, large fractions of B.S. level chemists from underrepresented groups, receive their training in minority-serving institutions, yet the funding for research at these institutions is low. This award will support the efforts of QEM to help faculty at these institutions develop competitive proposals for submission. The hope is to create a critical mass of research-active faculty at these institutions to guarantee that graduates from these institutions receive excellent training in modern chemical research.