Post Doctoral Excellence in Research and Teaching

描述（由申请人提供）：该提案要求继续PERT计划（博士后卓越研究和教学），其计划目标，可证明的成就和计划的改进。PERT旨在增加代表性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参与。研究I大学，亚利桑那大学（UA）和少数民族服务机构，皮马社区学院（PCC）之间的合作伙伴关系，PERT培训年轻的博士后科学家，其中许多人是代表性不足的少数民族，在生命科学的终身职业。为期3年的培训结合了UA教员指导下的独立研究，PCC教员指导下的PCC课堂教学，以及PCC学生的招聘，以从事学员的研究并在大学环境中进行学员的指导。博士后学员花一个学期的PCC课程审计和下学期的教学PCC导师的监督下。PCC的生命科学课程受益于博士后学员为其课堂教学带来的专业知识，PCC教师培训生开发的新课程，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接受以研究为导向的课程，并在榜样的指导下在大学环境中获得实践经验。他们从成功的经验中获得的信心有助于他们转移到大学攻读生命科学学位。因此，该计划不仅有利于博士后实习生，而且还有利于实习生接触的每一个层面-主办实验室和研究导师;社区学院的教师和学生，以及实习生未来的雇主。PERT为劳动力提供熟练的，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.