Promoting diversity and community college transfer success in the biology and biochemistry curricula

促进生物学和生物化学课程的多样性和社区大学转学的成功

• 批准号: 1060355
• 负责人: Lori Scott
• 金额: $ 60万
• 依托单位: Augustana College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1060355&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Promoting; diversity; community; college; transfer

Augustana College offers scholarships to students of color or community college transfer students who are majoring in biology or biochemistry. Funding for 20 scholars is targeted to increase the number of underrepresented minority majors at the college to at least 8 per year and the number of community college transfer students to 10, at least 85% of whom will graduate. All of the scholars participate in a project to annotate the genome of the bacterium Meiothermus ruber, authentic research on a project initiated by the PI and funded through the Department of Energy. They are also supported by enhanced tutoring, advising, and other measures to ease the transition to Augustana, along with a summer bridging program, a first-year learning community, and interaction with students at other institutions. In this way a series of high-impact teaching practices used throughout the biology curriculum fosters intellectual development of the students, while promoting communication between students and faculty in Biology and Chemistry Departments.

奥古斯塔纳学院提供奖学金的颜色或社区学院转学生谁是生物学或生物化学专业的学生。 为20名学者提供资金的目标是将该学院代表性不足的少数民族专业的数量增加到每年至少8个，并将社区学院转学生的数量增加到10个，其中至少85%将毕业。 所有的学者都参加了一个项目，以注释细菌Meiothermus ruber的基因组，由PI发起的项目的真实研究，并通过能源部资助。 他们还通过加强辅导，咨询和其他措施来支持，以缓解过渡到奥古斯塔纳，沿着夏季衔接计划，第一年的学习社区，并与其他机构的学生互动。 通过这种方式，整个生物课程中使用的一系列高影响力的教学实践促进了学生的智力发展，同时促进了生物系和化学系学生与教师之间的沟通。