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

历史上的黑人学院和大学-本科项目（HBCU-UP）为进行机构自我分析和设计活动提供支持，为研究中心做准备。Coppin州立大学的这个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建立基础，该中心预计将由科学技术卓越研究中心（CREST）项目资助，对来自工业、农业、生物技术和制药部门的新兴污染物（EC）进行前沿研究。本科生通过参与研究，积极参与本项目。该项目支持CREST项目的目标，即通过建立有效整合教育和研究的中心，为提高为少数民族服务的机构的研究能力提供支持。透过此计划拨款，项目将会形成至少三个融合研究合作，策略性地加强研究能力，并阐明共享的卓越领域。三个相互关联的子项目是：确定、描述和量化生态环境；研究ECs对生物系统的影响；以及对ec进行补救。具体的规划活动包括：举办写作研讨会，构思和规划中心的发展，试点研究项目，以评估学生在本科研究经历中的学习情况，以及教师发展。该项目将以形成性评价和总结性评价为指导。该项目由HBCU-UP和CREST项目共同资助。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。

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.