EAGER Germination: Faculty Springboard to Advance Breakthrough Science by Post-Tenure Faculty

渴望萌芽：终身教职人员推进科学突破的跳板

• 批准号: 1839558
• 负责人: George Truskey
• 金额: $ 20.45万
• 依托单位: Duke University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1839558&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: EAGER; Germination; Faculty; Springboard; Advance

This study will test the hypothesis that awarding of tenure represents an opportunity to nurture innovation as well as non-incremental and novel research pursuits. Development of faculty as highly successful researchers and educators is a critical goal of all universities. Considerable time and effort are invested into recruiting and mentoring exceptionally promising junior faculty. Tenure recognizes the most promising faculty and provides long term security and stability to develop their research ideas. However, less attention is focused upon post-tenure faculty development and the formulaic tenure process in most universities discourages risk associated with pursuing innovative research. This project will test a program to effect a refocusing of research direction in newly tenured faculty, with the goal of increasing their desire and ability to engage with significant problems.This study seeks to leverage achievement of tenure as a pivot point for inducing reflection, with the goal of stimulating newly tenured faculty to engage with novel research directions with increased potential for societal impact. The study will involve development of a unique, interdisciplinary program, the Faculty Springboard, targeting recently tenured associate professors drawn from the sciences and engineering at Duke University to facilitate the exploration of new and potentially groundbreaking research initiatives. The program will consist of: 1) an annual innovation workshop, focusing on community building, networking and brainstorming; 2) professional coaching and mentoring to further develop faculty?s novel research ideas; 3) a follow-up workshop to cement project development. Program delivery and effectiveness will be assessed through a comprehensive evaluation plan. Best practices will be institutionalized to ameliorate societal impact achieved through faculty research.The anticipated Broader Impact of this research is the expansion of research programs focused on addressing societal challenges. Through developing a faculty network and skillsets in support of creative risk-taking for innovative research, this professional development model has the potential to enhance researchers? abilities to address "wicked problems". By establishing proof of principle at Duke through targeted iterative evaluation, core essential components critical to success of this model program will be identified and disseminated for adaptation by other universities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

本研究将检验一个假设，即授予终身教职代表了一个培育创新以及非增量和新颖研究追求的机会。把教师培养成成功的研究者和教育者是所有大学的一个重要目标。大量的时间和精力投入到招聘和指导特别有前途的年轻教师。终身教职是对最有前途的教师的认可，并为他们发展研究思路提供长期的保障和稳定。然而，对终身教职后教师发展的关注较少，大多数大学公式化的终身教职过程阻碍了与追求创新研究相关的风险。该项目将测试一项计划，以重新聚焦新终身教职员工的研究方向，目标是提高他们参与重大问题的愿望和能力。本研究旨在利用终身教职的成就作为诱导反思的支点，目的是激励新终身教职员工从事具有更大社会影响潜力的新研究方向。这项研究将涉及开发一个独特的跨学科项目，即教师跳板，目标是杜克大学科学和工程领域最近获得终身教职的副教授，以促进对新的和潜在的开创性研究计划的探索。该计划将包括：1)年度创新研讨会，重点是社区建设、网络和头脑风暴；2)专业的指导和指导，以进一步发展教师？新颖的研究思路；3)水泥项目开发后续讲习班。将通过一个全面的评估计划来评估项目的交付和有效性。最佳实践将制度化，以改善通过教师研究取得的社会影响。这项研究的预期更广泛的影响是研究项目的扩展，重点是解决社会挑战。通过发展教师网络和技能，支持创新研究的创造性冒险，这种专业发展模式有可能提高研究人员的能力。解决“棘手问题”的能力。通过有针对性的反复评估，在杜克大学建立原则证明，将确定并传播对该模式项目成功至关重要的核心要素，以供其他大学适应。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。