Planning Grant: The Integrative Center for Emerging Contaminants (ICEC) At Coppin State University

规划补助金：科平州立大学新兴污染物综合中心 (ICEC)

• 批准号: 2040364
• 负责人: Mintesinot Jiru
• 金额: $ 24.98万
• 依托单位: Coppin 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: 2020-09-01 至 2022-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2040364&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Planning; Grant; Integrative; Center; Emerging

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities – Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) provides support to undertake an institutional self-analysis and to design activities in preparation for a research center. The project at Coppin State University seeks to establish the Integrative Center for Emerging Contaminants (ICEC). The goal of the planning grant is to build the foundation for a center, envisioned to be funded by the Centers of Research Excellence in Science and Technology (CREST) program, to perform cutting-edge research in emerging contaminants (EC), which are derived from industry, agriculture, and biotechnological and pharmaceutical sectors. Undergraduate students are actively involved in this project by participating in research. This project supports the goal of the CREST program to provide support to enhance the research capabilities of minority-serving institutions through the establishment of centers that effectively integrate education and research.Through this planning grant, the project will form at least three convergent research collaborations to strategically strengthen research capacity and articulate shared areas of excellence. The three interrelated subprojects are: identifying, characterizing and quantifying ECs; studying impacts of ECs on biological systems; and remediation of ECs. Specific planning activities include: conducting a writing workshop, conceptualizing and planning for development of a center, piloting research projects to assess student learning during undergraduate research experiences, and faculty development. The project will be guided by formative and summative evaluation. This project is jointly funded by the HBCU-UP and CREST programs.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.

历史上的黑人学院和大学 - 本科生计划 (HBCU-UP) 为进行机构自我分析和设计活动以准备研究中心提供支持。科平州立大学的该项目旨在建立新兴污染物综合中心（ICEC）。 规划拨款的目标是为一个中心奠定基础，该中心预计由科学技术卓越研究中心 (CREST) 计划资助，对来自工业、农业、生物技术和制药领域的新兴污染物 (EC) 进行前沿研究。本科生通过参与研究积极参与该项目。该项目支持 CREST 计划的目标，即通过建立有效整合教育和研究的中心，为增强少数族裔服务机构的研究能力提供支持。通过这项规划拨款，该项目将形成至少三个融合研究合作，以战略性地加强研究能力并阐明共同的卓越领域。这三个相互关联的子项目是： 识别、表征和量化 EC；研究 EC 对生物系统的影响；和 EC 的修复。 具体规划活动包括：举办写作研讨会、中心发展的概念化和规划、试点研究项目以评估学生在本科生研究经历中的学习情况以及教师发展。该项目将以形成性和总结性评价为指导。 该项目由 HBCU-UP 和 CREST 计划共同资助。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。