EAGER: Building a Starting Core for No-Boundary Education and Research Network

EAGER：构建无边界教育研究网络的起始核心

• 批准号: 1452211
• 负责人: Xiuzhen Huang
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Arkansas State University Main Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1452211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Building; Starting; Core; No

The team proposes a new concept of "No-Boundary Thinking (NBT)", which emerged from an NSF EPSCoR-supported Workshop in Bioinformatics at Little Rock, Arkansas in 2013, as well as follow-on meetings and discussions. The aim is to build a starting core to further explore no-boundary thinking in education and research through an innovative network of universities and projects. No-boundary thinking will be the key connection among a distributed set of researchers, students and science challenges. This project is a joint effort of 24 faculty members from 19 institutions from 13 states, with the represented research areas including fundamental life sciences, biology, agriculture, biophysics, biochemistry, engineering, computer science, mathematics, and statistics.The focus of NBT is no-boundary problem defining. The goal is to educate and train students with NBT through development of a "No-Boundary Education and Research Network". The team will Identify 3-4 no-boundary research problems for which current interdisciplinary research or bigdata approaches do not work well and apply no-boundary thinking in problem defining. The focus is problem defining, not just problem solving. Then, students will learn with a no-boundary thinking approach through research projects and problems, which should lead to an understanding of the roles of data, approaches, and infrastructure/High Performance Computing in problem defining and solving, and provide them with opportunities to learn to integrate data collection, approach design, and infrastructure to address scientific research challenges. Outreach will include a national meeting to discuss the impacts of current interdisciplinary research and big-data to science and education, and how to further promote NBT nationally.

该团队提出了一个新的概念“无边界思维（NBT）"，它出现在2013年在阿肯色州小石城举行的NSF EPSCoR支持的生物信息学研讨会以及后续会议和讨论中。 其目的是建立一个起始核心，通过大学和项目的创新网络，进一步探索教育和研究中的无边界思维。无边界思维将成为分散的研究人员、学生和科学挑战之间的关键联系。 该项目由来自美国13个州的19个机构的24名教师共同完成，代表性的研究领域包括基础生命科学、生物学、农业、生物物理学、生物化学、工程学、计算机科学、数学和统计学。其目标是通过发展“无边界教育和研究网络”，教育和培训具有NBT的学生。该团队将确定3-4个当前跨学科研究或大数据方法无法很好解决的无边界研究问题，并在问题定义中应用无边界思维。重点是定义问题，而不仅仅是解决问题。然后，学生将通过研究项目和问题学习无边界思维方法，这应该导致对数据，方法和基础设施/高性能计算在问题定义和解决中的作用的理解，并为他们提供学习整合数据收集，方法设计和基础设施的机会，以应对科学研究挑战。外联活动将包括一次全国会议，讨论当前跨学科研究和大数据对科学和教育的影响，以及如何在全国范围内进一步推广NBT。