HU-UCPI Cancer Education/Career Development Partnership

HU-UCPI 癌症教育/职业发展合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 6942708
• 负责人: CECILE ANDRAOS-SELIM
• 金额: $ 15.36万
• 依托单位: HAMPTON UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-08-22 至 2008-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6942708
• 关键词: African American; Internet; bioinformatics; biology; biomedical facility; career; computer assisted instruction; curriculum; education evaluation /planning; health science research potential; medical education; minority health professional; neoplasm /cancer education; science education; teacher; training; university student

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) Despite an excess cancer burden in the African-American population, there remains a relative paucity of African American cancer researchers; a trend that is evident at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) in addition to many cancer centers nationwide. Hampton University (HU) is a historically Black university located in Hampton, Virginia with over 600 students majoring in the Biological Sciences, yet there has been little emphasis in the curriculum on cancer biology. A partnership between UPCI and Hampton will combine the strengths of both institutions to establish cancer biology teaching and laboratory work in the Hampton curriculum, to facilitate the exposure of HU students to UPCI faculty and programs, to develop core faculty expertise in cancer biology at Hampton and to enhance UPCI accessibility to minority populations. To accomplish these goals, this partnership will realize the following specific aims: (1) To plan and implement a cooperative curriculum that will enable HU students to design and conduct experiments related to cancer, to understand basic concepts of cancer biology, and to critique primary literature in the cancer field. This will entail projects directed at all HU biology undergraduates as well as the establishment of a Cancer Fellows track, which will include summer research rotations by Cancer Fellows at UPCI. (2) To augment resources at UPCI to effectively interact with and educate minorities in Western Pennsylvania about cancer. This will include a joint project to upgrade the UPCI website to optimize its content and facilitate accessibility by African-Americans. (3) Optimize the ability of faculty to successfully teach cancer biology and to undertake cancer-related projects. A customized curriculum will be developed at UPCI to enhance the skills of HU summer visiting Faculty in teaching cancer biology and developing experimental and didactic teaching models. Faculty from both institutions will benefit from increased expertise in joint curriculum development, development of creative long distance teaching models, grant writing workshops and bioinformatics software training. Through these aims the partnership between Hampton University and UPCI will establish innovative programs designed to augment cancer research training and education opportunities at HU, and to enhance educational initiatives at UPCI.

描述（由申请人提供） 尽管非洲裔美国人的癌症负担过重，但非洲裔美国人的癌症研究人员仍然相对较少;除了全国许多癌症中心外，匹兹堡大学癌症研究所（UPCI）的趋势也很明显。汉普顿大学（HU）是一所历史悠久的黑人大学，位于弗吉尼亚州的汉普顿，有600多名学生主修生物科学，但在癌症生物学课程中几乎没有强调。UPCI和汉普顿之间的合作伙伴关系将联合收割机两个机构的优势，建立癌症生物学教学和实验室工作在汉普顿课程，以促进胡学生接触UPCI教师和计划，发展核心教师在癌症生物学专业知识在汉普顿，并提高UPCI少数民族人口的可及性。为实现这些目标，这一伙伴关系将实现以下具体目标： (1)计划和实施合作课程，使HU学生能够设计和进行与癌症相关的实验，了解癌症生物学的基本概念，并批评癌症领域的主要文献。这将需要针对所有HU生物本科生的项目，以及建立癌症研究员轨道，其中包括UPCI癌症研究员的夏季研究轮换。(2)增加UPCI的资源，以有效地与宾夕法尼亚州西部的少数民族互动并教育他们了解癌症。这将包括一个联合项目，以升级该联盟的网站，优化其内容，方便非洲裔美国人访问。(3)优化教师成功教授癌症生物学和开展癌症相关项目的能力。UPCI将开发定制课程，以提高HU夏季访问教师在癌症生物学教学和开发实验和教学模式方面的技能。来自这两个机构的教师将受益于联合课程开发，创造性的远程教学模式的发展，赠款写作研讨会和生物信息学软件培训的专业知识增加。通过这些目标，汉普顿大学和UPCI之间的合作伙伴关系将建立创新项目，旨在增加HU的癌症研究培训和教育机会，并加强UPCI的教育计划。