INBRE: FURMAN U: FACULTY AND UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

INBRE：弗尔曼大学：教师和本科生研究发展

• 批准号: 8360742
• 负责人: JOHN WHEELER
• 金额: $ 35.83万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-07-01 至 2012-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/8360742
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This subproject is one of many research subprojects utilizing the resources provided by a Center grant funded by NIH/NCRR. Primary support for the subproject and the subproject's principal investigator may have been provided by other sources, including other NIH sources. The Total Cost listed for the subproject likely represents the estimated amount of Center infrastructure utilized by the subproject, not direct funding provided by the NCRR grant to the subproject or subproject staff. Building Biomedical Research Capacity with New Target Faculty Building on the successful SC INBRE model, three new target faculty have been identified for funding in the renewal, including (1) Dr. Onarae Rice, Assistant Professor, Neuroscience (hired 2006); (2) Dr. Karen Buchmueller, Assistant Professor, Biochemistry (hired 2007); and (3) Dr. David Hollis, Assistant Professor, Physiology and Neuroscience (hired 2008). Through a combination of NIH and Furman matching commitments, new target faculty will receive three years of teaching reduction (i.e., to consistently commit a minimum of 50% total effort to their research programs), three years of summer salary, two years support of a dedicated laboratory assistant, and five years of student, travel and general supplies support. In addition to these three faculty, Furman will use SC INBRE funds (matched by institutional support) for a fourth target faculty in Year 3 of the renewal. While we are planning for both expansion (e.g., Biology) and replacement (e.g. Biology, Chemistry) positions in research areas suitable for NIH funding by Year 3 (e.g., Neuroscience, Bioinformatics. Bioanalytical Chemistry), our goal will be to identify the most competitive applicants available using the significant research enhancements available through the INBRE funding mechanism, while proactively working to increase URM and gender diversity among the science faculty in the Furman Biomedical Faculty core to the greatest extent possible. Two of Furman's most successful target faculty, Dr. Jeff Petty (2 NIH-AREA and 2 major NSF research awards since 2005) and Dr. Eli Hestermann (1 NIH-AREA award, co-PI on HHMI-USE) will participate in collaboration/mentoring activities with faculty from Converse College, Erskine College, Newberry College, Greenville Technical College and Claflin University. Mentored faculty will travel to the Furman campus to conduct summer research across a broad spectrum of research areas. INBRE funding will facilitate expenditures for research supplies so that these faculty and their students can conduct biomedical research in their home institutions while collaborating with Furman's established core of investigators. Alternatively or concomitantly, participating institutions may also be invited to send a faculty/student research team to the Furman campus to engage in individual summer or sabbatical leave research experiences as increased interactions are proactively developed. Collaborations of Furman faculty with Winthrop faculty have already been described elsewhere in this proposal. Furman supports ten students each summer to conduct full-time research with our target faculty using NIH funding, in addition to the large number of biomedical research students supported via Furman Matching, Furman Advantage, Merck, Beckman Scholars and HHMI. Significantly, we have well-exceeded a self-imposed minimum that 30% of our INBRE scholars should come from URM populations each year (e,g., 60% are African-American in Summer 2009). By comparison, Furman's student body is 13% minority (increasing each year as a part of the university's strategic plan, 16% for the entering class of 2008). In the context of our INBRE renewal, we recognize two pressing needs: (1) Furman has a significant responsibility to utilize administrative support and university resources to educate and develop the local URM secondary science student base; (2) with its unique facilities, faculty and research resources, Furman has the opportunity to engage minority students from institutions statewide as summer research scholars. In order to impact the maximum number of URM students across South Carolina, we will rely on strategies that have worked effectively in our current INBRE cycle, which include letters and personal communication each year between our target faculty with faculty within the same academic departments at every HBCU in South Carolina (e.g., 17 HBCU applicants for 4 open positions in 2009). A requirement for participation as a Furman target faculty member includes assisting in recruiting URM students statewide, a willingness to accept these students as summer research colleagues, and providing continued mentoring throughout the academic year. To offset the expenses incurred by students traveling from other universities including summer housing, the summer research salary is set at $5,000 per summer (plus $750 travel to a professional meeting).

这个子项目是许多利用资源的研究子项目之一 由NIH/NCRR资助的中心拨款提供。子项目的主要支持 而子项目的主要调查员可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括其它NIH来源。 列出的子项目总成本可能 代表子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， 而不是由NCRR赠款提供给子项目或子项目工作人员的直接资金。 在成功的SC INBRE模式的基础上，确定了三个新的目标教师，包括（1）Onarae Rice博士，神经科学助理教授（2006年聘用）;（2）Karen Buchmueller博士，生物化学助理教授（2007年受聘）;及（3）大卫霍利斯博士，生理学及神经科学助理教授（2008年受聘）。通过NIH和弗曼匹配承诺的结合，新的目标教师将获得三年的教学减少（即，持续承诺至少50%的总努力，他们的研究计划），三年的夏季工资，两年的专门实验室助理的支持，和五年的学生，旅行和一般用品支持。除了这三个教师，弗曼将使用SC INBRE资金（与机构支持相匹配）的第四个目标教师在第三年的更新。虽然我们正在计划两个扩展（例如，生物学）和替代（例如生物学，化学）职位在研究领域适合NIH资助的第三年（例如，神经科学，生物信息学。生物分析化学），我们的目标将是确定最有竞争力的申请人，使用通过INBRE资助机制提供的重大研究增强功能，同时积极努力，以提高URM和性别多样性之间的科学教师在弗曼生物医学学院的核心，以最大限度地可能。 Furman最成功的两个目标教师，Jeff Petty博士（自2005年以来获得了2个NIH-区域和2个主要的NSF研究奖）和Eli Hestermann博士（1个NIH-区域奖，HHHMI-USE的共同PI）将参加与匡威学院、埃尔斯金学院、纽贝里学院、格林维尔技术学院和克拉夫林大学教师的合作/指导活动。指导教师将前往弗曼校园进行广泛的研究领域的夏季研究。INBRE的资金将促进研究用品的支出，使这些教师和他们的学生可以在他们的家乡机构进行生物医学研究，同时与弗曼的研究人员的既定核心合作。或者或同时，参与机构也可以被邀请派遣一个教师/学生的研究团队到弗曼校园从事个人的夏季或休假研究经验，因为增加了互动积极发展。弗曼学院与温斯洛普学院的合作已经在本提案的其他地方进行了描述。 福尔曼支持10名学生每年夏天进行全职研究与我们的目标教师使用美国国立卫生研究院的资金，除了通过福尔曼匹配，福尔曼优势，默克，贝克曼学者和HHMI支持的大量生物医学研究的学生。值得注意的是，我们已经远远超过了自我强加的最低要求，即每年30%的INBRE学者应该来自URM人口（例如，2009年夏天，60%是非洲裔美国人）。相比之下，弗曼的学生中有13%是少数民族（作为大学战略计划的一部分，每年都在增加，2008年入学的学生中有16%是少数民族）。在我们的INBRE更新的背景下，我们认识到两个迫切的需求：（1）弗曼有一个重要的责任，利用行政支持和大学资源，教育和发展当地的URM中学理科学生基地;（2）凭借其独特的设施，教师和研究资源，弗曼有机会从全州的机构从事少数民族学生作为夏季研究学者。为了影响整个南卡罗来纳州的URM学生的最大数量，我们将依靠在我们目前的INBRE周期中有效运作的策略，其中包括我们的目标教师与南卡罗来纳州每个HBCU相同学术部门内的教师之间每年的信件和个人沟通（例如，2009年有17名HBCU申请人申请4个空缺职位）。作为弗曼目标教员参与的要求包括协助在全州范围内招募URM学生，愿意接受这些学生作为暑期研究同事，并在整个学年提供持续的指导。为了抵消来自其他大学的学生旅行所产生的费用，包括夏季住宿，夏季研究工资定为每年夏季5,000美元（加上750美元的专业会议旅费）。