U.T.-PAN AMERICAN'S MODEL BIOSCIENCES EDUCATION PROGRAM.

描述（由申请人提供）：拟议的总体目标 德克萨斯大学泛美分校的生物科学示范教育项目是为了 开发生物技术和医学实验室科学课程， 建立区域生物技术学习实验室（以下简称“区域生物技术学习实验室”）， 生物技术），将提供实践调查为基础的教育经验， 生物技术和实验室科学为初中和高中学生， 得克萨斯州的格兰德河河谷地区。 区域生物技术将使 生物医学科学家、临床实验室科学家和教育工作者， 初中/高中学生和他们的老师现代生物技术实验室 技术，包括这些技术的实际应用， 人类疾病的诊断。 据报道，许多学区缺乏 学生和教师进行基于实践的探究所需的资源 科学，特别是生物技术，这一缺点被认为是 初中和高中学生在科学方面表现不佳的原因。 在下格兰德河，学区资源的稀缺性更严重 山谷，一个四县地区位于沿着南部得克萨斯州与墨西哥边境 由30个独立学区组成， 人口 区域生物技术将是一个集中的实验室， 德克萨斯大学泛美分校（UTPA） 我们将增加两个 新改建的实验室，配备最先进的设备和实验室 人员每天为学生及其家属提供实验室设施。 教师 课程和实验模块将从细胞中提取， 分子生物学，临床化学，免疫学，血液学， 免疫血液学和微生物学。 该地区所有学校的学生， 8%被认为是经济上处于不利地位的人， 针对性地 我们有信心成功地全面实施这一项目 原因如下：生物医学专门知识; UTPA和地区学区;开发和实施学前教育的经验 主要针对西班牙裔的大学生物医学科学富集计划 学生; UTPA行政部门的承诺;一个 位于全国最贫穷的标准大都市之一的社区 以及社会各界对我们的大力支持。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The overall goal of the proposed University of Texas-Pan American's Model Biosciences Education Project is to develop a biotechnology and medical laboratory science curriculum and establish a regional biotechnology learning laboratory (hereafter, "Regional Biotech) that will provide hands-on inquiry based educational experiences in biotechnology and laboratory science for middle and high school students in the Rio Grande Valley region of Texas. Regional Biotech will enable biomedical scientists, clinical laboratory scientists and educators to teach middle/high school students and their teachers modern biotechnology laboratory techniques including practical applications of these techniques to the diagnosis of human diseases. Many school districts are reported to lack the resources students and teachers need to conduct inquiry based hands-on science, particularly biotechnology and this shortcoming is cited as one of the reasons middle and high school students perform poorly in science. Scarcity of resources in school districts is worse in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, a four county region situated along the south Texas border with Mexico and comprising 30 independent school districts with a predominantly Hispanic population. Regional Biotech will be a centralized laboratory, strategically located at the University of Texas Pan American (UTPA). We will augment two newly remodeled laboratories with state-of-the-equipment plus laboratory personnel to provide laboratory facilities daily for students and their teachers. The curriculum and experiment modules will be drawn from cell and molecular biology, clinical chemistry, immunology, hematology, immunohematology, and microbiology. Students in all schools in the region, eight percent of who are recognized as economically disadvantaged, will be targeted. We are confident of succeeding in fully implementing this project because of the following: biomedical expertise; existing partnerships between UTPA and area school districts; experience in developing and implementing pre- college biomedical science enrichment programs for predominantly Hispanic students; the commitment of the UTPA administration; the urgent needs of a community located in one of the nation's poorest standard metropolitan statistical area; and the strong support we receive from the community.