Inst.Research and Academic Career Development Award

描述(由申请人提供)： 这是一项旨在增加少数民族院校高素质教师数量的提案。我们的战略从MMC/Vanderbilt联盟环境中发展而来，旨在利用两所学校的互补优势。简而言之，我们建议在范德比尔特大学大量合格的少数族裔博士后研究员的基础上再接再厉，他们中的许多人都毕业于MMC。这些人将把他们的博士前研究培训扩展到范德比尔特众多杰出的研究实验室之一。此外，我们将建立一个广泛的指导计划，旨在为这些博士后研究员在教师就业市场上变得具有竞争力做好准备。这样的培训将包括在MMC仔细指导的教学经验以及对实验室管理的详细介绍。最后，也是在许多方面，最重要的是，我们将建立机制，促进这些人的研究独立性，这样他们最终实际上将在准备进入教员职位之前运营自己的实验室。我们建议通过在实验室内提供技术支持来进一步实现这些目标，因为博士后研究员将强烈参与到他们自己的研究重点的发展中，同时接触到旨在使他们处于激烈竞争的教师职位的教学策略。这样的人应该对任何一流机构的教员职位都有吸引力，但我们特别建议帮助他们在MMC获得一个职位，并在医学院的范德比尔特系联合任命一个职位。将采用的战略的详细情况如下。然而，我们强调，尽管联盟的实力使我们能够开发这一选项，但我们将与学生密切合作，帮助他们在他们认为满足其教师职业抱负的任何机构建立教师职位。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This is a proposal directed at increasing the number of highly qualified faculty at Minority institutions. Our strategy evolved from within the MMC/Vanderbilt Alliance environment and is designed to utilize the complementary strengths of the two schools. In brief, we propose to build upon the substantial number of well qualified minority postdoctoral fellows at Vanderbilt, many of whom have graduated from MMC. These individuals will extend their predoctoral research training into one of the many outstanding research laboratories at Vanderbilt. In addition we will institute an extensive mentoring program designed to prepare these postdoctoral fellows to become highly competitive in the faculty job market. Such training would encompass carefully mentored teaching experience at MMC as well as a detailed introduction to lab management. Finally, and in many ways, most importantly, we will set in place mechanisms to facilitate the research independence of these individuals, so that they will eventually be in effect running their own laboratory before they prepare for the move to a faculty position. We propose to further these goals by providing technical support within the laboratory as the postdoctoral fellows become intensely involved in the development of their own research focus, at the same time as becoming exposed to teaching strategies designed to put them in an intensely competitive position for a faculty appointment. Such an individual should be attractive for a faculty position at any first rate institution, however we are specifically proposing to facilitate them gaining a position at MMC, which would be supplemented by a joint appointment in a Vanderbilt department in the Medical School. The details of the strategies to be employed are presented below. However, we stress that although the strength of the Alliance allows us to develop this option, we will work closely with the students to help them establish faculty positions at any institution that they see as satisfying their faculty career aspirations.