NRT-IGE: Nanomedicine Academy of Minority Serving Institutions

纳米医学是一个新兴的范例，它寻求开发工程纳米尺寸的颗粒来解决现代医学中的关键问题，如疾病的早期诊断和靶向治疗的递送。这一领域对学生来说是令人兴奋的，世界范围内对这一领域的培训需求很大。东北大学研究生教育创新（IGE）轨道上的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖将把纳米医学研究的前沿进展转化为一种教育模式，以试点和测试一个可扩展的互动网络，使资源匮乏的机构能够在纳米医学培训方面建立能力，并在这一新兴领域开发学位课程。该项目将在五所院校的大量国家学生之间建立互惠的知识共享关系。这种新型高等教育模式的成功实施有望扩大少数民族在纳米医学劳动力中的参与，从而减少卫生劳动力中的差距，建立新的学位课程，并作为在其他学科中创建类似教育计划的蓝图。该项目的目标是创建一个可扩展的知识传递和科学合作网络，旨在使学生能够不受地理位置限制地从专家教师和同龄人那里学习。合作伙伴包括五所研究型大学，它们的传统是为代表性不足的社区提供高等教育。东北大学、波多黎各马亚圭斯大学、塔斯基吉大学、摩根州立大学和佛罗里达国际大学。该项目将通过基于网络的实时视频会议协议提供同步内容，使学生能够与其他大学的教师和同学实时互动。将创建一个并行的企业级在线学习环境，以支持基于团队的讨论和作业。课程包括纳米医学概论、纳米医学研究技术、纳米/生物医学商业化和纳米医学系列研讨会。每个机构的教师辅导员将协调物理和在线课堂环境，为跨机构的作业做出贡献，并提供补充指导。学生将通过在每个合作机构建立课程等效性，在其本国机构获得学位学分。这些学习工具的实施，以及对学生学习、学生人口统计和职业发展的评估，有望产生足够的新知识，从而将这种新的、独特的高等教育模式推广到全国范围内。NSF研究培训（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、新的、具有潜在变革性和可扩展的STEM研究生教育培训模式。研究生教育创新轨道专门用于试点，测试和评估新颖，创新和潜在的变革性研究生教育方法。这项工作得到了EHR核心研究（ECR）项目的部分支持。ECR项目强调在该领域产生基础知识的基础STEM教育研究。投资在至关重要、广泛和持久的关键领域：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大STEM参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。

NRT-IGE: Nanomedicine Academy of Minority Serving InstitutionsNanomedicine is an emerging paradigm that seeks to develop engineered nanometer size particles to solve key problems in modern medicine, such as early diagnosis of disease and targeted delivery of therapeutics. This field is exciting to students and there is worldwide demand for training in this area. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) track to Northeastern University will translate cutting-edge advances in nanomedicine research into an education model to pilot and test a scalable, interactive network that empowers low-resource institutions to build capacity in nanomedicine training and develop degree programs in this emerging field. This project will create a reciprocal knowledge-sharing relationship among a large national pool of students across five institutions. The successful implementation of this new model of higher education is expected to broaden the participation of minorities in the nanomedicine workforce thus reducing disparities in the health workforce, establish new degree programs, and serve as a blueprint for the creation of similar education programs in other disciplines. The goal of the project is to create a scalable network for knowledge delivery and scientific collaboration that is designed to enable student learning from expert instructors as well as from peers unrestricted by geographical location. The partners include five research universities with a tradition of providing higher education to underrepresented communities ? Northeastern University, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Tuskegee University, Morgan State University, and Florida International University. The project will offer synchronous content through live, web-based videoconferencing protocols, allowing students to interact with instructors and peers at other universities in real-time. A parallel enterprise-level online learning environment will be created to enable team-based discussions and assignments. Courses to be offered include Introduction to Nanomedicine, Nanomedicine Research Techniques, Nano/Biomedical Commercialization, and a Nanomedicine Seminar Series. Faculty facilitators at each institution will coordinate the physical and online classroom environments, contribute to cross-institutional assignments, and provide supplementary instruction. Students will receive degree credit at their home institution through the establishment of course-equivalency at each partner institution. The implementation of these learning tools, together with the assessment of student learning, student demographics, and career development, is expected to generate sufficient new knowledge to enable expansion of this new and unique higher education model to a nationwide program.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.This work is supported, in part, by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.