Miami-Dade College - University of Miami Bridge Program

描述(由申请人提供)：在这份申请中，我们请求继续支持迈阿密大学(UM)和迈阿密-戴德学院(MDC)之间富有成效的合作伙伴关系。我们的计划侧重于学生发展、教师发展和课程发展。我们将保留我们在之前的三次桥梁拨款中改进的计划元素。我们将继续：在迈阿密-戴德县积极招收高中生；提供特别课程和工作坊，以提高桥梁学生的学术竞争力；为MDC学生在密歇根大学的实验室与教师导师一起进行研究提供小时工资；将学生送到国家科学会议；通过特殊课程/研讨会为学生为研究做准备；让家长欣赏科学研究；通过支持研究和创新教学(奖学金、迷你助学金和旅行基金)来振兴MDC教师队伍。我们提出了几项新的活动，以满足我们的总体目标，即吸引学生进入博士项目和研究职业。其中最具创新性的是一个新的以探究为基础的、为期一年的生物学入门实验室，让学生在大学生涯的早期就接触到研究。学生团队在密歇根大学教授、研究生和本科生同伴领袖的指导下，将生成假设并进行实验，以在一年中调查四(4)个一般主题。我们将帮助已经过渡到密歇根大学的剑桥学生找到校外暑期研究经验的实习机会，并为他们提供GRE准备课程(由我们的一个补充项目资助)。教师研究导师将被提供一个新的指导研讨会，我们将开发一本导师手册。MDC的教职员工将参与生物学入门实验室、生物信息学研讨会，以及为入门课程开发跨学科的量化模块。

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.