INBRE: COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON: FACULTY & UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT

INBRE：查尔斯顿学院：教师

• 批准号: 8360741
• 负责人: James Deavor
• 金额: $ 11.76万
• 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/8360741
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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. A four-year, $1.5 million HHMI grant, acquired by the College of Charleston directly as an outcome of SC INBRE support, provides funds to develop new courses in computational biology, neuroscience, and chemical biology, to hire new faculty members, and to provide research support to undergraduate students. By coupling HHMI support with SC INBRE's, the College will provide research support for five faculty members to mentor undergraduate students both from the HHMI and SC INBRE programs. The objective is to further increase the number of students who take advantage of research training opportunities in biomedical science, and in particular to do so with minority students. The College will hire two new faculty members, one to augment the new Neurobiology program established in great part with prior SC INBRE support, and the other in Biochemistry. In addition, SC INBRE will support Dr. Anastasia Zimmermann, currently in the Biology Department, as an initial Target Faculty. Prior SC INBRE Target faculty at the College will serve as local mentors to Dr. Zimmerman. Outreach to High Schools for Minority Student Recruitment The College of Charleston will establish links with local high schools to extend the "pipeline" to the K-12 arena. The HHMI grant will enable the College to extend its outreach efforts to nearby predominantly African-American Burke High School. INBRE support will be used to reach out to St. Johns High School, another predominantly African American school that is about thirty minutes away, and also to explore opportunities with other high schools that are more evenly racially mixed (e.g., James Island, Timberland, Wando, and West Ashley High Schools). Outreach efforts will be channeled through the College's Upward Bound Program, a pre-collegiate program designed to generate the skills and motivation necessary for success in education beyond high school, providing academic and cultural opportunities for selected high school freshmen, sophomores, juniors and seniors from target high schools in the Tri-county area. These students, primarily minority students, have parents that have never completed a four year college degree; a family income that qualifies the student for free or reduced lunch; and have demonstrated the academic potential needed to be successful. Students will attend presentations from our INBRE faculty and shadow our undergraduates in the conduction of their research projects, with opportunities for participating in all aspects of the research, from planning to execution of the experiments, literature searches, and reports. Student Recruitment and Retention The College's First Year Experience learning communities, where a cohort of students are enrolled in a set of paired courses, features two pre-Med sections where students are enrolled in both freshman biology and freshman chemistry. This will enable us to educate freshman as soon as they walk in the door about the biomedical research opportunities at the College and in particular to target minority students. INBRE faculty will make presentations to these classes and will make direct contact with minority students. Recruitment of minority students into scientific training and careers is important, but so is retention. The College will continue to be an active participant in the South Carolina Alliance for Minority Participation (SCAMP) program which increases the chances of success for minority students by providing special opportunities such as a summer bridge program for incoming students, special academic year programs to sharpen study skills, an incentive rewards program in the form of additional scholarships or stipends, and appropriate social activities. SC INBRE faculty members have been making presentations at a SCAMP meeting each fall to discuss research opportunities. This interaction has already resulted in the placement of several interested students into research labs. We plan to annually invite one or more minority speakers, including our alumni, to give seminars at the College, to provide role models for our minority students.

该子项目是利用资源的众多研究子项目之一 由 NIH/NCRR 资助的中心拨款提供。子项目的主要支持 并且子项目的主要研究者可能是由其他来源提供的， 包括其他 NIH 来源。 子项目可能列出的总成本 代表子项目使用的中心基础设施的估计数量， NCRR 赠款不直接向子项目或子项目工作人员提供资金。 作为 SC INBRE 支持的结果，查尔斯顿学院直接获得了一项为期四年、价值 150 万美元的 HHMI 赠款，该赠款提供资金来开发计算生物学、神经科学和化学生物学的新课程，雇用新的教员，并为本科生提供研究支持。通过将 HHMI 的支持与 SC INBRE 的支持结合起来，学院将为五名教员提供研究支持，以指导来自 HHMI 和 SC INBRE 项目的本科生。目标是进一步增加利用生物医学研究培训机会的学生数量，特别是少数族裔学生。学院将聘请两名新教员，其中一名是为了增强新的神经生物学项目，该项目在很大程度上是在 SC INBRE 之前的支持下建立的，另一名是生物化学专业。此外，SC INBRE 将支持目前在生物系工作的 Anastasia Zimmermann 博士作为初始目标教师。学院前 SC INBRE Target 教师将担任 Zimmerman 博士的当地导师。 拓展到高中招收少数族裔学生 查尔斯顿学院将与当地高中建立联系，将“渠道”延伸至 K-12 领域。霍华德休斯医学研究所 (HHMI) 的拨款将使学院能够将其外展工作扩展到附近以非裔美国人为主的伯克高中 (Burke High School)。 INBRE 的支持将用于联系圣约翰高中（另一所距离学校约 30 分钟路程的以非裔美国人为主的学校），并探索与其他种族混合更均匀的高中（例如 James Island、Timberland、Wando 和 West Ashley 高中）合作的机会。外展工作将通过学院的向上发展计划进行，这是一项大学预科计划，旨在培养高中毕业后教育成功所需的技能和动力，为来自三县地区目标高中的选定高中一年级、二年级、三年级和四年级学生提供学术和文化机会。这些学生（主要是少数族裔学生）的父母从未完成四年制大学学位；使学生有资格享受免费或减价午餐的家庭收入；并展示了成功所需的学术潜力。学生将参加我们的 INBRE 教师的演讲，并跟随我们的本科生进行研究项目，并有机会参与研究的各个方面，从实验的规划到执行、文献检索和报告。 学生招募和保留 学院的第一年体验学习社区中，一群学生注册参加一组配对课程，设有两个医学预科部分，学生注册新生生物学和新生化学。这将使我们能够在新生一进门时就向他们介绍学院的生物医学研究机会，特别是针对少数族裔学生。 INBRE 教师将向这些班级进行演讲，并与少数族裔学生进行直接接触。招募少数族裔学生参加科学培训和职业生涯很重要，但留住学生也很重要。学院将继续积极参与南卡罗来纳州少数族裔参与联盟 (SCAMP) 计划，该计划通过提供特殊机会，例如为新生提供夏季桥梁计划、提高学习技能的特殊学年计划、以额外奖学金或助学金形式的激励奖励计划以及适当的社会活动，增加少数族裔学生成功的机会。 SC INBRE 教员每年秋天都会在 SCAMP 会议上发表演讲，讨论研究机会。这种互动已经导致一些感兴趣的学生被安置到研究实验室。我们计划每年邀请一名或多名少数族裔演讲者，包括我们的校友，在学院举办研讨会，为我们的少数族裔学生提供榜样。