TIP: Infusing Laboratory-Bench STEM Into Exercise Physiology Via Integration of Chemistry, Biology, and Biophysics

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科项目（HBCU- up）通过有针对性的输液项目支持基于证据的创新模式和方法的开发、实施和研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以攻读STEM研究生课程和/或职业。温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学（WSSU）的这个项目旨在将一个新颖的、引人入胜的生物工程项目注入到现有的运动生理学课程中。这个项目将提高学生使用实验室技术的能力，为下一代人才进入STEM管道提供创新的教育机会。该提案的新颖之处包括：为本科生提供这种体验；以运动生理学为平台提供这种体验；以生物工程项目为载体注入实验室工作台模块；并在HBCU提供这种体验，这样代表性不足的学生就能进入STEM研究生院和职业生涯。WSSU的运动生理学系将是第一个，如果不是全国第一个，HBCU或其他，提供这种体验。该项目的目标是将实验平台模块注入到WSSU的运动生理学课程中。这个项目的目标是：1)提高学生对使用实验台上的技术的态度；2)提高学生对运动生理学科学探究的认知；3)提高学生从事本科研究的意愿；4)提高学生坚持stem相关领域的意愿。因此，该项目有可能推进与认知和行为因素相关的知识，这些因素可能决定一个代表性不足的STEM本科生是否继续攻读研究生院。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue STEM graduate programs and/or careers. The project at Winston-Salem State University (WSSU) seeks to infuse a novel, engaging bioengineering project into the existing Exercise Physiology curriculum. This project will enhance student abilities to use lab-bench techniques to provide an innovative educational opportunity to funnel the next generation of talent into the STEM pipeline. Novel aspects of this proposal include: offering this experience to undergraduates; offering this experience using Exercise Physiology as a platform; infusing the lab-bench modules using a bioengineering project as a vehicle; and offering this experience at a HBCU, so that underrepresented students are funneled into STEM graduate schools and careers. The Department of Exercise Physiology at WSSU will be one of the first, if not the first in the nation, HBCU or otherwise, to offer this experience.The goal of this project is to infuse lab-bench modules into the Exercise Physiology curriculum at WSSU. The objectives of this project are to: 1) improve student attitudes toward use of lab bench-based techniques; 2) improve student perceptions of scientific inquiry in Exercise Physiology; 3) increase student intentions to engage in undergraduate research; and 4) increase student intentions to persist in STEM-related fields. Thus, this project has the potential to advance knowledge related to cognitive and behavioral factors that may determine whether or not an underrepresented STEM undergraduate pursues graduate school.