RCN-UBE: Youth Environmental Alliance in Higher Education

RCN-UBE：高等教育青年环保联盟

• 批准号: 2019049
• 负责人: Gillian Bowser
• 金额: $ 49.98万
• 依托单位: Colorado State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2025-07-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2019049&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: RCN; UBE; Youth; Environmental; Alliance

Scientific inquiry and environmental policies increasingly depend on international research networks. Environmental challenges cannot be approached from one discipline alone, but require creative solutions developed across boundaries of discipline, country, and sector. This project uses an integrated, interdisciplinary, and international approach to train undergraduate life science students to be future leaders at the science-policy interface. The Youth Alliance in Higher Education Network is a new multi-institutional network focused on providing students with real-world experience in collaborative, evidence-based approaches to global sustainability. Participating students will be part of an on-line virtual classroom network that reaches across the U.S. and around the world. Students will learn how scientific principles are applied in national and global decision-making followed by the opportunity to participate in international environmental negotiations. This project will advance the health and security of U.S. citizens through educating students to work effectively on critical scientific issues on the international stage and prepare them for career paths in research, education, non-governmental organizations, the private sector, and/or government.The Network will build an open network of institutions of higher education to provide authentic, real-world experience in global environmental governance. The network will build and test virtual classrooms, build a library of course modules and tools for teaching students in undergraduate life science majors, and engage entry level and early career professionals through the Network Fellowship program. The Network will develop future change agents, with the multicultural and transdisciplinary perspectives, policy awareness, scientific inquiry, and the national and international networks necessary to address the global challenges of our time. The Network activities will result in (1) improved life science education with multicultural and project-based learning teams, (2) increased the scientific literacy and public engagement with science and technology for students in the life sciences, (3) broadened participation among underrepresented minorities, and (4) improved well-being and retention of these students through multicultural and interdisciplinary training. To improve STEM education, the network will facilitate new cross-institution virtual modules that train students in international scientific diplomacy. Students will directly increase public scientific literacy by sharing the results of their cross-institutional team projects in their local communities and at the annual UN Conference of the Parties climate meeting.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure, and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their efforts to address the challenges posed in Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: A Call to Action (http://visionandchange/finalreport/).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.

科学探索和环境政策越来越依赖于国际研究网络。环境挑战不能仅从一个学科来解决，而是需要跨越学科，国家和部门的边界开发创造性的解决方案。该项目采用综合，跨学科和国际化的方法来培养本科生命科学学生成为科学政策界面的未来领导者。高等教育青年联盟网络是一个新的多机构网络，重点是为学生提供以协作和循证方法实现全球可持续性的实际经验。参与的学生将成为在线虚拟教室网络的一部分，该网络覆盖美国和世界各地。学生将学习如何在国家和全球决策中应用科学原理，然后有机会参与国际环境谈判。该项目将通过教育学生在国际舞台上有效地解决关键科学问题，并为他们在研究、教育、非政府组织、私营部门和/或政府部门的职业道路做好准备，促进美国公民的健康和安全。该网络将建立一个开放的高等教育机构网络，提供全球环境治理方面的真实经验。该网络将建立和测试虚拟教室，为本科生命科学专业的学生建立课程模块和工具库，并通过网络奖学金计划吸引入门级和早期职业专业人士。该网络将发展未来的变革推动者，具有多文化和跨学科的视角，政策意识，科学探究以及应对我们时代全球挑战所需的国家和国际网络。该网络的活动将导致：（1）通过多文化和基于项目的学习团队改善生命科学教育;（2）提高生命科学学生的科学素养和公众对科学和技术的参与;（3）扩大代表性不足的少数群体的参与;（4）通过多文化和跨学科培训改善这些学生的福祉和保留率。为了改善STEM教育，该网络将促进新的跨机构虚拟模块，培训学生进行国际科学外交。学生将通过在当地社区和联合国缔约方会议年度气候会议上分享他们的跨机构团队项目成果，直接提高公众的科学素养。该项目由生物科学理事会、生物基础设施司和教育与人力资源理事会共同资助，本科教育部作为应对本科生物学教育愿景和变革：行动呼吁中提出的挑战的努力的一部分（网址：//visionandchange/finalreport/）该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持审查标准。