Bridge RISE Supplement

桥 RISE 补充品

• 批准号: 10193708
• 负责人: MARIA E ALVAREZ
• 金额: $ 3.89万
• 依托单位: EL PASO COMMUNITY COLLEGE
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-08-01 至 2022-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10193708
• 关键词: Affect; Air; Anxiety; Bachelor' s Degree; Bioinformatics; Biology; COVID-19; COVID-19 pandemic; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.); Chemistry; Communities; Complement; Data; Development; Disease; Disinfection; Doctor of Philosophy; Educational Curriculum; Event; Exposure to; Faculty; Foundations; Goals; Guidelines; Hybrids; Individual; Institution; Internships; Knowledge; Laboratories; Mathematics; Methods; Modality; Monitor; Outcome; Procedures; Process; Public Health; Research; Research Project Grants; Research Technics; Research Training; Risk; Safety; Science; Series; Social Distance; Social Sciences; Students; Talents; Technology; Texas; Training; Training Activity; Viral; Viral Load result; base; college; design; disadvantaged student; emerging antimicrobial resistance; experience; falls; field study; higher education; improved; innovation; ionization; laboratory curriculum; laboratory experiment; minority student; multi-drug resistant pathogen; online course; particle; programs; repository; skills; statistics; supplemental instruction; tool; transfer student; transmission process; undergraduate research; virtual

The goals of the RISE to the Challenge Bridge between EPCC, UTEP, and NMSU are: 1) to continue providing talented EPCC students with the tools to succeed and excel in their freshman and sophomore-level biology, chemistry, and math courses; 2) to continue strengthening the research knowledge and skills of EPCC students and faculty; and 3) to increase the number of minority and disadvantaged students that transfer to a four-year institution with the skills necessary to graduate with a baccalaureate degree and eventually a Ph.D. in biomedical fields. The program provides year-round research internships for twelve students and Course-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CURE) projects and Supplemental Instruction. During the Spring 2020 semester, students were at various stages of completion of CURE projects when the College closed because of the COVID19 pandemic. Most students were able to process data and present their CURE projects in various formats. But the need to prepare for the possibility of another wave of the disease and students being unable to return to labs is evident. Students participating in year-round research internships were affected as well. EPCC’s administration continues to monitor state and local orders as well as CDC and Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board guidelines to determine how classes will be offered in Fall 2020. The most likely option is that science courses will be offered in a hybrid modality, trying to front load the most critical face-to-face laboratory activities early in the semester. For this reason, it is critical to develop virtual curriculum modules that can expedite (or replace if needed) the completion of face-to-face critical aspects of CURE projects as well as enhance and complement research training activities for students in CURE courses and the individual research trainees. Importantly, efforts must be made to reduce the anxiety some students and faculty may experience with the risk of being exposed to COVID-19 upon their return to campus. In order to ease this transition and make sure faculty and students stay motivated to participate in research projects, we must implement procedures that reduce the risk of transmission. This includes training in the proper use of PPE, social distancing, disinfection procedures, and improving air quality using technologies that can reduce the viral load of circulating air in laboratories. In addition, and although participation in CUREs results in increases in students’ science identity development, CURE projects are often disconnected from the communities in which the students live and current events affecting the world such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the emergence of multi-drug resistant organisms. EPCC proposes to 1) Create, implement, and evaluate a series of innovative online CURE modules that are focused on the scientific and societal impacts of COVID-19 and the emergence of antimicrobial resistance, 2) Generate a repository of field-tested modules, and 3) Install Needlepoint Bipolar Ionization/uv air purification units in laboratories where CURE research takes place to reduce viral particles in circulated air. Activities are designed to (a) provide students with foundational research skills (scientific method, safety, statistics, and research techniques); (b) engage students in applying these skills to perform research using both quantitative/computational (e.g., bioinformatics) and qualitative (e.g., social sciences and public health) approaches; and (c) empower students to connect their scientific findings to broader societal outcomes in the southwest border region. Given the tangible and direct personal impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the emergence of multidrug resistant organisms, we will use these overarching topics to frame our proposed curricular and co-curricular activities.

EPCC，UTEP和NMSU之间挑战桥的崛起目标是：1） 继续为有才华的EPCC学生提供成功并在新生中表现出色的工具 以及大二水平的生物学，化学和数学课程； 2）继续加强 EPCC学生和教师的研究知识和技能； 3）增加数量 少数民族和处境不利的学生，他们以技能转移到四年制的机构 以学位学位毕业，最终是博士学位所必需的。在生物医学领域。 该计划为十二名学生和基于课程的研究提供了全年的研究实习 本科研究经验（治疗）项目和补充教学。 在2020年春季学期，学生处于治疗的各个阶段 由于学院关闭而导致COVID19大流行的项目。大多数学生能够 处理数据并以各种格式呈现其治疗项目。但是需要为 疾病浪潮和学生无法返回实验室的可能性是证据。 参加全年研究实习的学生也受到影响。 EPCC的 管理继续监视州和地方订单，以及CDC和德克萨斯州较高 教育协调董事会指南，以确定2020年秋季将如何提供课程。 最有可能的选择是科学课程将以混合方式提供，试图领先 在学期初期加载最关键的面对面实验室活动。因此，是 开发可以加快（或在需要时替换）的虚拟课程模块的至关重要的 完成治疗项目的面对面关键方面以及增强和完成 治疗课程和单个研究培训的学生的研究培训活动。 重要的是，必须努力减少一些学生和教师可能 返回校园后，有可能暴露于Covid-19的风险。为了 缓解这种过渡，并确保教师和学生保持成熟以参加研究 项目，我们必须实施降低传输风险的程序。这包括 在适当使用PPE，社会距离，消毒程序和改善空气方面进行培训 使用可以减少实验室循环空气病毒负荷的技术的质量。在 补充，尽管参与治疗会导致学生科学身份的提高 开发，治疗项目通常与学生的社区断开 现场和时事影响了世界，例如COVID-19大流行和出现 多药耐药的生物。 EPCC提出的提案1）创建，实施和评估一系列创新的在线治疗 重点介绍Covid-19和出现的科学和社会影响的模块 2）生成现场测试模块的存储库，3）安装 针头双极电离/紫外空气净化单元在实验室中治愈研究 发生在循环空气中减少病毒颗粒的发生。活动旨在（a）提供 具有基础研究技能的学生（科学方法，安全，统计和研究 技术）; （b）让学生使用这些技能，同时使用这些技能进行研究 定量/计算（例如，生物信息学）和定性（例如，社会科学和公众 健康方法； （c）授权学生将科学发现与更广泛的发现联系起来 西南边境地区的社会成果。考虑到有形和直接的个人影响 在Covid-19大流行以及多种耐药生物的出现中，我们将 使用这些总体主题来构建我们提出的课程和课外活动。