Implementation Project: Training of Undergraduates in Genome Engineering and Computational Data Sciences Programs at FVSU

传统黑人学院和大学的实施项目-本科项目为设计，实施，研究和评估全面的机构努力提供支持，通过加强科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）教育和研究来增加学生人数和他们的准备质量。Fort Valley州立大学的实施项目寻求以前两个实施项目的成功和国家科学基金会的其他奖项为基础。此外，拟议的项目将把重点放在扩大特定新兴领域的参与上，利用成功的技术招募、留住和毕业STEM领域的非裔美国本科生。该项目由正在进行的评估指导和通知。堡谷州立大学（Fort Valley State University）提议通过课程开发、结构化的学生参与和指导、教师发展以及URM学生接触研究和出国留学经历，为基因组编辑/基因组工程（GE）和计算数据科学（CDS）应用提供全面的本科学术准备和职业准备。这个综合的跨学科本科课程的目标是利用GE-CDS创建一个孵化器，让代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生参与强化训练，提高批判性思维技能的发展，并扩大全球研究和教育经验。此外，该项目将通过改革评估和干预，通过基于证据的GE-CDS课程转变机构教学。该计划的主要目标是：(1)开发与学生学习技术相结合的综合教育和研究技能课程；(2)提高教师在GE-CDS的研究、教学和学习方面的学术研究竞争力；(3)提供密集的学生研究计划，利用校内和校外、国际站点和国家实验室的资源，培养具有全球竞争力的学生；(4)参与学生招聘、指导和向研究生院和STEM劳动力成功过渡的整体方法。基因组工程工具，集群调节间隔回文重复序列和CRISPR相关蛋白9 （CRISPR/ cas9）使我们能够在基因组中执行特定DNA序列的删除，插入或修饰，从而导致基因治疗，可能导致治疗遗传疾病，直到今天仍然是人类的一个谜。计算数据科学和基因组编辑的交叉将提升我们在数据分析方面的知识，这将是未来医学领域进步的核心。拟议的模式涉及GE-CDS的课程开发，以及全年干预，包括与扩大少数民族学生参与STEM的研究结果非常一致的出国留学部分。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。

Implementation Projects in the Historically Black Colleges and Universities - Undergraduate Program provide support to design, implement, study and assess comprehensive institutional efforts to increase the numbers of students and the quality of their preparation by strengthening science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education and research. The Implementation project at Fort Valley State University seeks to build on the successes of the former two Implementation projects and other awards from the National Science Foundation. Furthermore, the proposed project will focus its efforts on broadening participation in specified emerging areas, using successful techniques in recruiting, retaining and graduating African-American undergraduates in STEM. The project is guided and informed by an on-going evaluation. Fort Valley State University is proposing a holistic undergraduate academic preparedness and career readiness in Genome Editing/Genome Engineering (GE) and Computational Data Science (CDS) applications through curricular development, structured student engagement and mentoring, faculty development, and URM student exposure to research and study abroad experiences. The goal of this integrated, interdisciplinary undergraduate program is to use GE-CDS to create an incubator for engaging underrepresented minority (URM) students in intensive training, to improve critical-thinking skills development, and expand global research and education experiences. Further, this project will transform institutional teaching and learning through evidence-based GE-CDS courses via reform assessment and intervention. The primary objectives of this program are: (1) to develop an integrated education and research skills-based curriculum alignment with technology for student learning; (2) to increase faculty competitiveness in scholarly inquiries in research, teaching, and learning in GE-CDS; (3) to provide an intense student research program utilizing resources on- and off-campus, at international sites, and in national laboratories to prepare globally competitive students; and (4) To engage in the holistic approach of student recruitment, mentoring, and transition to success in graduate schools and the STEM workforce. A Genome Engineering tool, Clustered Regulated Interspaced Palindromic Repeats, and CRISPR-associated protein 9 (CRISPR/ Cas 9) allows us to perform the deletion, insertion, or modification of specific DNA sequences in the genome, which lead to gene therapy that could potentially result in treatment for genetic disorders that remain an enigma for mankind until today. The intersection of Computational Data Science and Genome Editing will advance our knowledge in data analytics, which is going to be at the core of future advances in the medical field. The proposed model involves curricular development in GE-CDS, and year-round interventions, including a study abroad component that are well aligned with research findings on broadening participation of minority students in STEM.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.