Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Award

描述（由申请人提供）：宾夕法尼亚大学的博士后研究和教学机会（PENN-PORT）计划旨在为宾夕法尼亚大学的传统指导博士后研究经验和博士后任命者提供发展教学技能的机会相结合。教学指导将包括宾夕法尼亚大学教育研究生院一学期的正式教学方法课程，以及在大西洋中部各州少数民族合作机构的指导教学经验。后者将在以下少数族裔服务机构之一进行：林肯大学，美国历史上最古老的黑人大学，以及罗格斯大学纽瓦克和卡姆登校区，这两个校区有大量的非裔美国人和拉丁裔本科生。这项为期三年的培训结合了宾夕法尼亚大学医学院、兽医医学院和牙科医学院、霍华德休斯医学研究所或费城儿童医院的尖端独立研究，由宾夕法尼亚大学的一名教师指导，这些教师因其出色的培训记录和资金充足的实验室而被选中，并在参与机构的课堂教学中由杰出的教师监督。PENN-PORT博士后将花一个学期的时间旁听他们将在下个学期在该机构教学导师的监督下教授的课程。他们还将与他们的教学导师协商设计和实施一门新课程。该计划的主要目标是鼓励本科生，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的本科生，在合作机构攻读科学专业，生物医学科学研究生教育，并从事生物医学科学事业。除了博士后的课堂体验外，在第一年和第二年的每个夏天，学生将在宾夕法尼亚大学的研究导师实验室接受博士后的暑期研究项目。PENN-PORT项目的另一个目标是增加有充分准备的生物医学课堂教育工作者，他们也是非常合格的研究科学家。博士后被任命者将在宾夕法尼亚大学接受研究培训，在宾夕法尼亚大学接受认证的教学指导，在合作机构接受教学和指导经验，并通过宾夕法尼亚大学生物医学博士后项目专门为博士后设计的项目发展其他专业技能。由于该项目至少有25%的被任命者将是少数族裔，这也将增加少数族裔进入学术生涯的人数。我们的第三个目标是加强合作院校的研究型教学，促进宾大教员与合作少数族裔院校教员在研究和教学方面的合作。由于博士后在课程开发方面的投入，合作院校将有更多的研究型课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The University of Pennsylvania's Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN-PORT) Program aims to provide a combination of a traditional mentored postdoctoral research experience at the University of Pennsylvania and an opportunity for postdoctoral appointees to develop teaching skill. Instruction in teaching will include a formal semester-long course in pedagogical methods from the Graduate School of Education at PENN as well as a mentored teaching experience at a minority serving partner institution in the Mid-Atlantic states. The mentored latter will take place at one of the following minority-serving Institutions: Lincoln University, the nations oldest historically Black university and the Rutgers University campuses, Newark and Camden, which have significant African-American and Latino undergraduate enrollment. The three year training combines cutting-edge, independent rearch at PENN in the Schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Dental Medicine, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute or the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia under the direction of one of PENN's faculty, selected for their outstanding training records and well funded laboratories, and classroom teaching at the participating institutions supervised by distiguished teaching faculty. PENN-PORT postdocs will spend one semester auditing a course that they will teach in the following semester under the supervision of their teaching mentor at that institution. They will also design and execute a new course in consulation with their teaching mentor. The major objective of the program is to encourage undergraduate students, particularly those from under-represented groups, at partner institutions to pursue a major in the sciences, graduate education in the biomedical sciences, and a biomedical scientific career. In addition to their classroom experience with the postdoc, each summer after their first and second years, a student will be hosted by the postdoc for a summer research project in the research mentor's lab at PENN. A further objective of the PENN-PORT Program is to increase the pool of well prepared biomedical classroom educators who are also extremely well qualified research scientists. Postdoctoral appointees will receive research training at PENN, certified pedagogical instruction at PENN, teaching and mentoring experiences at partner institutions, and develop other professional skills through programs especially designed for postdocs by PENN's Biomedical Postdoctoral Programs. Since at least 25% of the appointees to this program will be under-represented minorities, this will also increase the number of minorities entering academic careers. Our third objective is to enhance research-oriented teaching at partner institutions and foster collaboration in research and teaching between the faculty at PENN and that of partner minority-serving institutions. The partner institution will have more research-oriented courses due to the investment of postdocs in course development.