RCN-UBE: Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs (AIM-UP!)

瞄准！(推进博物馆与本科课程的整合)是一个研究协调网络，它产生了将自然历史博物馆的广泛档案和网络基础设施纳入五个主要主题下的本科教育的新方法。这些主题探讨了跨越时空的复杂生物联系、地理变异、基因组的进化动态、对气候变化的生物反应以及与新出现的疾病有关的病原体和宿主的共同进化群落。瞄准！正在改进现有的努力，并利用教育者、馆长、藏品管理人员、数据库管理人员和科学家的综合和广泛的专门知识，为大规模问题的收藏培训制定新的综合办法，他们的教学和调查跨越不同学科，涉及广泛的时间和空间主题。该网络正在1)开发教学和分析工具，以培训学生在气候变化、进化基因组学和分子生态学等新兴领域的学生；2)开发博物馆数据库的教学工具，如arctos，通过AIM-UP免费向公众、教师和科学家提供！其中包括：1)建立一个研究样本问题的教育工作者综合网络；3)建立一个研究样本问题的教育工作者综合网络；4)包括不同的合作者，包括少数族裔和女性科学家、联邦机构生物学家、学者、国际参与者和有大量公众观众的博物馆；5)培训本科生在博物馆进行实地和实验室研究；6)特别针对代表性不足的学生开展外联工作，重点是与其社区相关的问题。网络参与者通过1)在外地站和参与机构举行的为期三天的年度全体工作会议；2)科学会议的研讨会；3)通过交互式互联网服务(例如，视频会议、Wiggio、AIM-UP！)进行频繁的互动4)博物馆教育工作者的短期交流，进行密集的内容开发；5)为1所主办机构的本科生举办短期课程(两周)，以测试新方法；6)在新墨西哥大学举办秋季学期研讨会课程(通过网络广播向所有网络参与者开放)。当瞄准的时候！它最初是阿拉斯加大学、哈佛大学、加州大学伯克利分校和新墨西哥大学之间的合作，作为一种整合这些机构的专业知识和经验的方式，目前正在扩展到其他教育机构、联邦机构和加拿大一个以博物馆为基础的大型基因联盟。该项目由生物科学委员会和本科教育部门联合支持。

AIM-UP! (Advancing the Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs) is aresearch coordination network that produces new ways of incorporating the extensive archives and cyberinfrastructure of natural history museums into undergraduate education under five primary themes. These themes explore complex biotic associations across space and time, geographic variation, evolutionary dynamics of genomes, biotic response to climate change, and coevolving communities of pathogens and hosts as related to emerging diseases. AIM-UP! is refining existing efforts and developing new integrated approaches to collections-based training in large-scale questions using the combined and broadly-based expertise of educators, curators, collection managers, database managers, and scientists whose teaching and investigations span across various disciplines and relate to topics covering a wide spectrum of time and space. The network is 1) developing teaching and analytic tools in training students in the emerging fields of climate change, evolutionary genomics and molecular ecology; 2) developing of instructional tools for museum databases, such as ARCTOS, that are freely available to the public, teachers, and scientists via the AIM-UP! website; 3) developing an integrated network of educators working on specimen-based questions; 4) including diverse collaborators, including minority and female scientists, federal agency biologists, academics, international participants, and museums with large public audiences; 5) training undergraduate students in museum-based field and laboratory research; and 6) conducting outreach efforts targeted especially to underrepresented students with an emphasis on issues relevant to their communities. Network participants communicate through 1) an annual three-day all-hands working meeting at field stations and participating institutions; 2) workshops at scientific meetings; 3) frequent interaction via interactive internet services (e.g., video conferencing, Wiggio, AIM-UP! blog, ARCTOS blog); 4) short-term exchanges of museum educators for intensive content development; 5) a short course (two weeks) for undergraduate students at 1 host institution to beta-test new approaches, and 6) a fall semester seminar course at the University of New Mexico (available via webcasting to all network participants). While AIM-UP! began as a collaboration between the University of Alaska, Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of New Mexico as a way to integrate expertise and experiences across these institutions, it is currently being expanded to other educational institutions, federal agencies, and a large museum-based genetic consortium in Canada.This project is supported jointly by the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Division of Undergraduate Education.