Research Infrastructure at Benedict College

描述（由申请人提供）：本尼迪克特学院制定了一项战略，以建立机构的研究能力。这种方法将提高本尼迪克特学院生物医学研究人员的竞争力，以开发可持续的研究项目，并提高学院学生在生命和物理科学方面的教育经验。将建立支持核心和设施，作为生物医学研究人员进行研究、发表研究结果、争取校外资助的基础，并为学生体验生物医学研究和接受培训提供基础，使他们在进入生物医学科学研究生课程时更具竞争力。除了行政核心外，重点领域是(I)教师核心，（II）研究支持核心，（III）学生活动核心，（IV）赞助生物医学研究办公室（OSBR）和(V)发展/合作研究核心。将聘请一名新助理教授和两名博士后助理（前半部分各一名，后半部分各一名），以补充最近聘请的两名助理教授和更资深的教员的研究兴趣。生物医学研究人员将占用和利用新建成的最先进的教师和核心实验室设施。这些研究实验室将在最近购买的最先进设备的基础上增加更多的仪器。技术人员将维护动物护理设施。实验室经理将维护集中的核心实验室，协助教师购买和进行实验，并培训学生在教师实验室工作。健康职业顾问将监督学生的实验室经验，组织和监督学生在入门科学课程上的辅导和学生准备参加研究生入学考试和申请研究生院的正式培训，并组织博士后助教教学经验，使他们在就业市场上更具竞争力。OSBR主任和一名资助干事将协助申请校外资助。生殖生物学方面将有两个研究子项目，每个子项目都将涉及本尼迪克特学院生物和物理科学系的一名教员和南卡罗来纳大学医学院细胞生物学和神经科学系的一名教员之间的合作。两所学校之间的更多互动将增强研究经验。咨询委员会和外部评估人员将对该计划进行咨询和评估。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Benedict College has developed a strategy to build institutional research capacity. This approach will increase the competitiveness of biomedical researchers at Benedict College to develop sustainable research programs and enhance the educational experience of the College's students in the life and physical sciences. Support cores and facilities will be established as a foundation for biomedical researchers to conduct research, publish their findings, and compete for extramural grant funding as well as for students to experience biomedical research and be trained to be more competitive for matriculation into graduate programs in the biomedical sciences. In addition to an Administrative Core, areas of emphasis are (I) Faculty Core, (II) Research Support Core, (III) Student Activities Core, (IV) Office of Sponsored Biomedical Research (OSBR), and (V) Developmental/Collaborative Research Core. One new assistant professor and two postdoctoral associates (one for the 1st half and one for the 2nd half of the grant) will be hired to complement the research interests of two recently hired assistant professors and more senior faculty members. Biomedical researchers will occupy and utilize newly completed state-of-the-art faculty and core laboratory facilities. Additional instrumentation will be added to the recently purchased state-of-the-art equipment in these research laboratories. A technician will maintain an animal care facility. A Lab Manager will maintain centralized core laboratories, assist faculty members in purchasing and conducting experiments, and train students to work in faculty laboratories. A Health Careers Advisor will monitor student laboratory experiences, organize and oversee tutoring of students in gateway science courses and formal training of students in preparation for taking the Graduate Record Examination and applying to graduate school, and organize postdoctoral associate teaching experience to make them more competitive in the job market. The Head of the OSBR and a Grants Officer will assist in the application for extramural grants. There will be two research subprojects in reproductive biology each of which will involve collaboration between a faculty member in the Department of Biological and Physical Sciences at Benedict College and a faculty member in the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine. Additional interactions between the two schools will enhance the research experiences. An advisory committee and external evaluator will be advisory and evaluate the program.