NSF INCLUDES DDLP: BEST BET: Broadening Experiences in Scientific Training - Beginning Enhancement Track

NSF 包括 DDLP：最佳选择：扩大科学培训经验 - 开始增强轨道

• 批准号: 1744445
• 负责人: Fadie Coleman
• 金额: $ 29.98万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-11-01 至 2022-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744445&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: NSF; INCLUDES; DDLP; BEST; BET

The Broadening Experience for Scientific Training: Beginning Enhancement Track ("BEST-BET"), an NSF INCLUDES Design and Development Launch Pilot project, draws upon the expertise of five research-intensive institutions that have developed innovative programing in career and professional development for doctoral and postdoctoral trainees in biomedical research. The goal of the project is to expand the scope and leverage the work so as to engage students earlier in their career exploration. Specifically, the project will target undergraduates who may not be aware of the multitude of career options available to them. These include opportunities in academia, the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries, science communication, science policy, and technology transfer/patent law. The effort will focus on undergraduates who come from populations generally underrepresented in STEM fields, including but not limited to ethnically, racially and socioeconomically underserved communities. The grant will support educational opportunities for students at minority-serving institutions and will assess the impact of providing new opportunities to this community. The critical contributions of a diverse and inclusive community are essential to progress in all STEM fields. By promoting diversity in education, this project aims to engage undergraduate students at a point in their professional development that could enable participation in a wide range of workforce opportunities so as to advance the progress of science and national health. The focus of BEST BET will be to use a collective impact framework to connect the "BEST network" of institutions to partners engaged in undergraduate education of students from underrepresented communities who are interested in the life sciences. The underlying premise is that career exploration focused on opportunities that go beyond physician training will enable engagement of this community of learners in the life science workforce beyond the pre-med track and keep them engaged in degree completion. Multiple strategies will be used to attain the goals of BEST BET. They are organized in the context of two major objectives roughly divided into the scope of planned activities. The first objective focuses on "career exploration" and offers strategies to assist partner institutions to build career and skill development capacities. The second is grounded in an enhanced experience of BEST site visits whereby undergraduates will have the opportunity to envision life as a graduate student and beyond. These strategies will likely enhance persistence to complete the baccalaureate degree and move onto doctoral programs.

科学培训的扩展经验：开始增强轨道（“BEST-BET”），NSF包括设计和开发启动试点项目，借鉴了五个研究密集型机构的专业知识，这些机构为生物医学研究领域的博士和博士后学员开发了职业和专业发展方面的创新方案。该项目的目标是扩大范围，并利用工作，使学生在他们的职业探索早期。具体来说，该项目将针对本科生谁可能不知道的众多职业选择提供给他们。这些包括学术界的机会，生物技术和制药业，科学传播，科学政策和技术转让/专利法。这项工作将侧重于本科生谁来自人口普遍代表性不足的STEM领域，包括但不限于民族，种族和社会经济服务不足的社区。该赠款将支持学生在少数群体服务机构接受教育的机会，并将评估向该社区提供新机会的影响。一个多元化和包容性的社区的关键贡献是在所有STEM领域的进展至关重要。通过促进教育的多样性，该项目旨在让本科生在其专业发展的某一点上参与，从而能够参与各种劳动力机会，以推动科学和国民健康的进步。BEST BET的重点将是使用集体影响框架，将机构的“BEST网络”与参与对生命科学感兴趣的代表性不足的社区的学生的本科教育的合作伙伴联系起来。其基本前提是，职业探索的重点是超越医生培训的机会，将使这个学习者社区参与生命科学劳动力超越医学预科轨道，并保持他们参与完成学位。多种策略将用于实现最佳赌注的目标。它们是在两个主要目标的背景下组织的，大致分为计划活动的范围。第一个目标侧重于“职业探索”，并提出了协助伙伴机构建立职业和技能发展能力的战略。第二个是在最佳实地考察的增强经验，使本科生将有机会设想作为研究生及以后的生活接地。这些策略可能会提高完成学士学位并进入博士课程的坚持性。