Miami-Dade College - University of Miami Bridge Program

迈阿密戴德学院 - 迈阿密大学桥项目

• 批准号: 7037494
• 负责人: MICHAEL S. GAINES
• 金额: $ 21.36万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI CORAL GABLES
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 2008-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7037494
• 关键词: curriculum; education evaluation /planning; health science research potential; science education; university; university student; workshop

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this application we request continuing support for a productive partnership between the University of Miami (UM) and Miami-Dade College (MDC). Our program focuses on student development, faculty development, and curriculum development. We will retain program elements that we have refined over our prior three Bridge grants. We will continue to: actively recruit high school students in Miami-Dade County; offer special courses and workshops to increase the academic competitiveness of bridge students; provide hourly wages for MDC students doing research with faculty mentors in labs at UM; send students to national scientific meetings; prepare students for research through special courses/seminars; give parents an appreciation for scientific research; and rejuvenate MDC faculty by support for research and innovative teaching (fellowships, mini-grants, and travel funds). We propose several new activities to address our overarching goal of attracting students to Ph.D. programs and research careers. The most innovative of these is a new inquiry-based, one-year Introductory Biology laboratory to expose students to research early in their college careers. Student teams, guided by a UM professor, graduate student, and undergraduate peer leader will generate hypotheses and conduct experiments to investigate four (4) general themes over the year. We will assist Bridge students who have transitioned to UM to find placements in extramural summer research experiences, and we will provide them with a GRE preparation course (funded by one of our complementary programs). Faculty research mentors will be provided a new mentoring workshop, and we will develop a mentor's handbook. MDC faculty will participate in the Introductory Biology laboratory, in bioinformatics workshops, and in the development of interdisciplinary, quantitative modules for introductory courses.

描述（由申请人提供）：在此申请中，我们要求继续支持迈阿密大学（UM）和迈阿密戴德学院（MDC）之间的富有成效的合作伙伴关系。我们的计划侧重于学生发展，教师发展和课程开发。我们将保留我们在前三个桥梁赠款中改进的项目元素。我们将继续：积极招募迈阿密戴德县的高中生;提供特殊课程和研讨会，以提高桥梁学生的学术竞争力;为MDC学生在UM实验室与教师导师一起做研究提供小时工资;送学生参加国家科学会议;通过特殊课程/研讨会为学生做好研究准备;让家长对科学研究有所了解;并通过支持研究和创新教学（奖学金，小额赠款和旅行基金）来振兴MDC教师。我们提出了几个新的活动，以解决我们的首要目标，吸引学生到博士。计划和研究事业。其中最具创新性的是一个新的基于调查的，为期一年的生物学实验室介绍，让学生在大学生涯的早期就接触到研究。由UM教授，研究生和本科生同行领导者指导的学生团队将产生假设并进行实验，以调查四（4）年内的一般主题。我们将协助谁已经过渡到UM桥学生找到在校外暑期研究经验的位置，我们将为他们提供一个GRE准备课程（由我们的补充计划之一资助）。教师研究导师将提供一个新的指导研讨会，我们将开发一个导师手册。MDC教师将参加生物学实验室介绍，在生物信息学研讨会，并在跨学科，定量模块的入门课程的发展。