Conference: A Proposal to Provide Technical Assistance to Increase the Research Competitiveness of MSIs, Community Colleges, and URM Faculty to BIO-wide Programs

为了建立一个包容性的STEM劳动力，美国必须协助在机构和地理区域，产生最多的STEM少数民族，其中包括位于EPSCOR州内的MSI和社区学院的研究能力建设。这些机构是STEM专业人员的重要和有效的孵化器。 然而，他们面临的体制挑战可能会破坏招聘，留住和培养代表性不足的学生的最佳努力。该项目将进行为期3天的granitary发展研讨会，与研讨会后的援助，以支持30少数民族服务机构（MSI），社区学院（CC），和代表性不足的生物科学教师，以培养他们的建议开发技能。这项提案开发援助是必要的，以培养一个更知情和有竞争力的提案提交给国家科学基金会（NSF）生物科学理事会（BIO）内的广泛的计划。来自当地亚特兰大，佐治亚州，EPSCOR州（LA，MS，AL）和东南部地区的MSIs和CC的教师有兴趣获得有关选定NSF BIO项目的资助机会的知识，将被鼓励参加。优先考虑那些以前没有提交给BIO董事会和那些来自EPSCOR国家的教师。这个研讨会将旨在帮助这些教师与知识竞争所需的赠款资金，以支持他们的研究，教学和培训他们的代表性不足的少数民族学生。该项目的目标是：（1）提高机构对竞争性资金资源的认识，以建立在MSIs和CC服务的教师的生物学研究培训能力;（2）扩大MSIs和CC的教师在生物科学研究中的参与;（3）促进他们的合作赠款写作工作。该项目将评估培训的影响，并将跟踪参与者提交的建议。该项目由生物基础设施部和刺激竞争性研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）支持。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审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

In order to build an inclusive STEM workforce, the United States must assist in building the research capacity at institutions and in geographical areas that produce the highest number of minorities in STEM, which includes MSIs and community colleges located within EPSCOR states. These institutions are important and effective incubators of STEM professionals. However, they face institutional challenges that can undermine best efforts to recruit, retain and prepare underrepresented students. This project will conduct a 3-day grantsmanship development workshop, with post-workshop assistance, to support 30 Minority-serving institution (MSI), community college (CC), and underrepresented bioscience faculty in order to nurture their proposal development skills. This proposal development assistance is necessary to cultivate a more informed and competitive submission of proposals to a broad range of programs within the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO). Faculty from local Atlanta, GA, EPSCOR states (LA, MS, AL) and southeastern regional MSIs and CCs interested in gaining knowledge about funding opportunities in selected NSF BIO programs, will be encouraged to participate. Priority will be given to those faculty that have not previously submitted to the BIO Directorate and those from EPSCOR States. This workshop will be designed to aid these faculty with knowledge necessary to compete for grant funding needed to support their research, teaching, and training of their underrepresented minority students. The project’s goals are to: (1) increase institutional awareness of competitive funding resources to build biology research training capacity of faculty serving at MSIs and CCs; (2) broaden participation of faculty at MSIs and CCs in biological science research; and (3) promote their collaborative grant-writing efforts. This project will assess the impact of the training and will track the submissions of proposals by the participants. This project is supported by the Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.