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生计划（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和基于证据的创新模式和方法的研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求STEM研究生课程和/或职业。该项目在温斯顿-塞勒姆州立大学（WSSU）旨在注入一个新的，从事生物工程项目到现有的运动生理学课程。该项目将提高学生使用实验室技术的能力，提供创新的教育机会，将下一代人才引入STEM管道。该提案的新颖方面包括：向本科生提供这种经验;使用运动生理学作为平台提供这种经验;使用生物工程项目作为载体注入实验室工作台模块;并在HBCU提供这种经验，以便代表性不足的学生进入STEM研究生院和职业生涯。WSSU的运动生理学系将是第一个，如果不是第一个在全国，HBCU或以其他方式，提供这种经验之一。该项目的目标是注入实验室工作台模块到WSSU的运动生理学课程。该项目的目标是：1）提高学生对使用基于实验室的技术的态度; 2）提高学生对运动生理学科学探究的认识; 3）增加学生参与本科研究的意愿; 4）增加学生坚持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本科生是否攻读研究生。

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.