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）计划旨在提供宾夕法尼亚大学传统的博士后研究经验和博士后任命者发展教学技能的机会的结合。教学指导将包括宾夕法尼亚州教育研究生院的教学方法的正式学期课程，以及在大西洋中部各州少数民族服务合作机构的指导教学经验。后者将在以下少数民族服务机构之一进行辅导：林肯大学，这是美国历史上最古老的黑人大学和罗格斯大学校园，纽瓦克和卡姆登，这两个大学有大量的非洲裔美国人和拉丁裔本科生。为期三年的培训结合了医学，兽医学和牙科医学，霍华德休斯医学研究所或费城儿童医院在宾夕法尼亚大学的教师之一的指导下，宾夕法尼亚大学的尖端，独立的研究，选择他们优秀的培训记录和资金充足的实验室，并在参与机构的课堂教学由distiguished教学教师监督。宾夕法尼亚州港口博士后将花一个学期的时间审计一门课程，他们将在下一个学期在该机构的教学导师的监督下教授。他们还将与他们的教学导师协商设计和执行新课程。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的群体，在合作机构追求科学，在生物医学科学研究生教育，和生物医学科学事业的主要。除了他们的课堂经验与博士后，每年夏天后，他们的第一年和第二年，一个学生将由博士后主办的夏季研究项目在研究导师的实验室在宾夕法尼亚州。 PENN-PORT计划的另一个目标是增加准备充分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PENN接受研究培训，在PENN获得认证的教学指导，在合作机构获得教学和指导经验，并通过专门为PENN生物医学博士后项目设计的项目发展其他专业技能。由于该计划至少25%的被任命者将是代表性不足的少数民族，这也将增加进入学术生涯的少数民族人数。我们的第三个目标是加强合作机构的研究型教学，促进宾夕法尼亚大学教师与合作伙伴少数民族服务机构之间的研究和教学合作。由于博士后对课程开发的投资，合作机构将拥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.