Building Research Capacity for the 21st Century: an MBRS SCORE Proposal

描述（由申请人提供）：特拉华州州立大学（DSU），一所历史悠久的黑人大学（HBCU），100年来一直是一所主要的教学机构。在新总统的领导下，DSU正在从一所文科学院迅速发展成为一所提供科学博士学位的全方位服务大学。作为这一转变的一部分，该大学的重点是通过发展教师研究和学生研究培训的基础设施，加强生物医学研究的环境。 DSU SCORE计划将提供必要的基础设施，以消除教师研究生产力的障碍。该计划将支持普通研究设施的翻新和升级，包括辐射实验室、组织培养设施、荧光成像设施和多功能生物技术实验室。这些核心设施房子共享设备和资源至关重要的DSU教师的研究项目。除了基础设施的支持，SCORE计划将支持SCORE计划协调员谁将维护共同的设施和设备，协助教师订购设备和用品，并跟踪订单，维护服务合同和记录，并协助管理危险废物处理SCORE调查。通过减轻SCORE研究人员的行政负担，SCORE项目协调员对于提高他们的研究生产力将是不可或缺的。SCORE计划还将支持来自生物学，化学，数学和计算机科学系的跨学科教师小组的十个生物医学研究项目。SCORE对这些研究人员的支持将使他们能够开发研究项目，为本科生和研究生提供研究培训，并成功地竞争独立的赠款资金。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Delaware State University (DSU), a historically Black university (HBCU), has been primarily a teaching institution for 100 years. Under the leadership of a new president, DSU is undergoing a rapid evolution from a liberal arts college to a full-service university offering doctoral degrees in the sciences. As part of this transition, the University is focused on enhancing the environment for biomedical research by developing the infrastructure for faculty research and student research training. The DSU SCORE program will provide needed infrastructure to remove barriers to faculty research productivity. The program will support renovation and upgrading of common research facilities including a radiation laboratory, tissue culture facilities, fluorescence imaging facility, and the multi-purpose biotechnology laboratory. These Core facilities house shared equipment and resources crucial to the research projects of DSU faculty. In addition to the infrastructure support, the SCORE program will support a SCORE program coordinator who will maintain the common facilities and equipment, assist faculty with ordering equipment and supplies and tracking the orders, maintain service contracts and records, and assist in managing hazardous waste disposal for SCORE investigators. By reducing the administrative burden on SCORE investigators, the SCORE program coordinator will be indispensable for increasing their research productivity. The SCORE program also will support ten biomedical research projects by an interdisciplinary group of faculty from the Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Computer Science departments. SCORE support for these investigators will allow them to develop research programs that will provide research training for both undergraduate and graduate students, and successfully compete for independent grant funding.