EAGER GERMINATION Renewal: Extending a platform to germinate transformative science through diverse collaboration

此次授予伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的这一奖项是在上一次热切的奖项中吸取经验教训的基础上获得的，该奖项旨在扩大和进一步评估一个利用不同声音和观点的富有成效的互动来产生想法的平台。该平台旨在增加催生应对重大社会挑战的变革性研究想法的可能性。目标参与者是后期研究生、早期教师和博士后学者，他们有潜力参与跨机构跨学科研究，将来自美国印第安人部落学院、历史上的黑人学院和大学、为西班牙裔服务的学院和大学以及土地赠与大学的学者联系起来。预计会产生两个重要的社会影响。首先，提高研究人员应对国家/全球关键挑战的能力预计将带来社会效益和经济效益。其次，与为少数群体服务的机构的合作应增加历史上未得到充分服务的人口的参与、培训和专业发展。拟议的平台利用现有的学习和思维知识，目标是培养创造力和跨学科方法。具体地说，孵化变革性研究想法的有利条件包括：多个根本不同的视角的互动；参与有组织的合作过程；以及经历构思、酝酿和结晶的多个周期。最初授予该小组的热切奖励表明，通过关注对全球气候变化的适应能力，这一方法得到了原则证明。在延长奖的支持下，将再组建两个群体，重点关注不同的社会挑战(粮食和水安全；能源可持续性)，以完善和扩展这一框架，从而检验这一方法的普遍性。研究小组将由来自美国印第安人高等教育委员会(AIHEC)、西班牙裔学院和大学协会(HACU)、全国高等教育机会平等协会(NAFEO)和国家超级计算应用中心(NCSA)的人员组成。重复的测量设计将支持收集多个行为指标。跨团队动态的定量和定性分析将探索框架识别、编码和执行创造性想法的能力。预期的项目成果是：(1)创造性想法的产生；(2)可持续的跨机构和跨学科网络，以促进未来应对重大科学挑战的研究；(3)促进前两项成果的完善程序；以及(4)有效性和可扩展性的证据。以一种给予少数群体服务机构真正发言权的方式纳入这些机构，在这一调查领域开辟了新的天地。将来自不同社会文化背景的多个群体的学者聚集在一起，将允许评估相对于社会同质团队而言，转型思维的假设好处。

This award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign builds on lessons learned in a previous EAGER award to extend and further assess a platform for idea generation, leveraging the productive interaction of diverse voices and perspectives. The platform is intended to increase the probability of germinating transformative research ideas that address important societal challenges. Targeted participants are late stage graduate students, early stage faculty, and postdoctoral scholars who show potential for engaging in cross-institutional interdisciplinary research linking scholars from American Indian Tribal Colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Colleges and Universities, and Land Grant Universities. Two important societal impacts are anticipated. Firstly, enhancing the ability of researchers to address key national/global challenges is expected to confer both social and economic benefit. Secondly, collaboration with minority-serving institutions should increase the participation, training and professional advancement of historically underserved populations.The proposed platform uses existing knowledge on learning and ideation with the goal of fostering creativity and interdisciplinary approaches. Specifically, favorable conditions for hatching transformative research ideas include: interaction of multiple, radically different perspectives; engaging in a structured collaboration process; and working through multiple cycles of ideation, gestation and crystallization. The initial EAGER award to this group demonstrated proof-of-principle for this approach through focusing on resilience to global climate change. Under the aegis of the renewal award, two additional cohorts will be assembled focusing on distinct societal challenges (Food and Water Security; Energy Sustainability) to refine and extend this framework, and thereby test the generalizability of the approach. The research team will be composed of personnel from the American Indian Higher Education Council (AIHEC), the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), and from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). A repeated measures design will enable collection of multiple behavioral metrics. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of dynamics across groups will explore the framework's capacity to identify, codify, and execute creative ideas. Anticipated project outcomes are: (1) creative idea generation; (2) sustainable cross-institutional and interdisciplinary networks to promote future research addressing scientific grand challenges; (3) a refined procedure for facilitating the first two outcomes; and (4) evidence of efficacy and scalability. The inclusion of minority-serving institutions in a way that gives them true voice breaks new ground in this area of inquiry. Bringing together scholars from multiple groups with substantively different sociocultural backgrounds will allow evaluation of the hypothesized benefit for transformational thinking relative to socially homogenous teams.