Post Doctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching

描述(由申请者提供)：本提案要求继续开展PERT项目(博士后卓越研究和教学)，其基础是项目目标、可证明的成就和计划中的改进。PERT的目标是增加代表不足的少数群体成员在生物医学、生物技术和生命科学领域的职业参与。PERT是第一研究型大学亚利桑那大学(UA)和少数族裔服务机构皮马社区学院(PCC)之间的合作伙伴关系，为生命科学领域的终身教职职业培训年轻的博士后科学家，其中许多人是代表不足的少数族裔。为期3年的培训包括在UA教员指导下的独立研究，在PCC教员指导下的课堂教学，以及招募PCC学生从事受训人员的研究和在大学环境下受训人员的指导。博士后实习生花一个学期的时间审核PCC课程，并在第二个学期在PCC导师的指导下授课。PCC的生命科学课程得益于博士后学员为课堂教学带来的专业知识的注入，学员与PCC教师共同开发的新课程，PERT计划提供的现代实验室设备，以及PCC教师的职业发展。少数民族学生在PCC接受内容更新的研究型课程，并在榜样的指导下获得在大学环境中进行研究的实践经验。他们从成功的经历中获得的自信，有助于他们转到大学攻读生命科学学位。因此，这一计划不仅惠及博士后学员，而且惠及学员接触到的各个层面--主办实验室和研究导师；社区学院的教职员工和学生，以及学员未来的雇主。PERT为劳动力提供技术熟练、准备充分的个人，同时增加劳动力中人才的多样性。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This proposal requests continuation of the PERT program (Postdoctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching) based on its programmatic goals, demonstrable achievements, and planned refinements. PERT aims to increase participation of members of underrepresented minority groups in careers in biomedicine, biotechnology, and the life sciences. A partnership between a Research I University, the University of Arizona (UA), and a Minority Serving Institution, Pima Community College (PCC), PERT trains young postdoctoral scientists, many of whom are underrepresented minorities, for tenure-track careers in the life sciences. The 3-year training combines independent research under the mentorship of a UA faculty member, classroom teaching at PCC under the mentorship of a PCC faculty member, and the recruitment of PCC students to work on the trainee's research and under the trainee's mentorship in a university setting. Postdoctoral trainees spend one semester auditing a PCC course and the following semester teaching it under the supervision of the PCC instructor. The life sciences curriculum at PCC has benefited from the infusion of expertise brought by the postdoctoral trainees to their classroom teaching, the new courses developed by trainees with PCC faculty, modern laboratory equipment provided by the PERT program, and the career development of the PCC faculty. The minority students receive research-oriented classes with updated content at PCC and gain hands-on experience doing research in a university environment under the tutelage of a role model. The confidence they gain from a successful experience facilitates their transfer to the university to pursue a degree in the life sciences. Hence this program benefits not only the postdoctoral trainee, but also every level that the trainee comes into contact with - the host laboratory and research mentor; the faculty and students of the community college, and the trainee's future employer. PERT provides skilled, well-prepared individuals for the workforce at the same time increasing the diversity of talent in that workforce.