ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant Program - Cycle 2

描述（由申请人提供）：ASM大会少数族裔旅行资助计划是一项为期五年的倡议，旨在增加选择微生物学和相关科学职业并取得卓越成就的少数族裔（urm）的数量。该计划的总体目标是通过支持URM博士后研究员和少数族裔服务机构（msi）和社区学院（cc）的教师参加ASM大会来实现这一增长。尽管美国的许多科学和工程创新都是由受过高等教育和培训的人完成的，但美国国家科学基金会（NSF）最近的一项关于获得博士学位的调查（2008年进行的）发现，在2008年获得博士学位的美国公民和永久居民中，只有23%是urm；这凸显了(1)教育渠道更加多样化和(2)URM学生获得博士学位并在科学和工程劳动力中取得成功的必要性。通过参加会议，受资助者有机会在会议上展示研究成果并与7,000多名微生物学家互动。这些互动可能导致广泛的联网；加强研究、课程内容和学生学习的伙伴关系；持久的师徒关系；接触新的资金来源和职业规划。受资助者还可以在微生物学研究和教育方面招募同事和学生，并赋予他们权力。该项目的具体目标侧重于支持URM在微生物学工作队伍中的成功：目标1：为来自msi和cc的教师以及URM在科学领域的博士后提供机会，通过与已有的微生物学家建立网络和合作来扩展他们的研究能力。目标2：为管理学院和研究中心的教师以及研究中心的博士后提供机会，以提高他们的教学和指导能力。目标3：增加来自URM科学小组的ASM成员数量。目标4：提高来自管理学院的教师和来自URM小组的博士后对积极参与ASM的兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant Program is a five-year initiative to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URMs) who choose and excel in careers in microbiology and related sciences. The program's overall goal is to achieve this increase by supporting URM postdoctoral fellows and faculty from minority-serving institutions (MSIs) and community colleges (CCs) to attend the ASM General Meeting. Although much of the U.S. scientific and engineering innovations are made by those with advanced education and training, the most recent NSF Survey of Earned Doctorates (conducted in 2008) found that of the U.S. citizens and permanent residents awarded doctorates in 2008, just 23% were URMs; this highlights the need for (i) more diversity in the educational pipeline and (ii) URM students to receive doctorates and succeed in the scientific and engineering workforce. By attending the meeting, grantees benefit from opportunities to present research and interact with the more than 7,000 microbiologists at the meeting. These interactions may result in extensive networking; partnerships to enhance research, curriculum content, and student learning; lasting mentoring relationships; and exposure to new sources of funding and career planning. Grantees also become poised to recruit and empower colleagues and students in microbiology research and education. Specific aims for the program focus on supporting the success of URMs in the microbiology workforce: Aim 1: To provide faculty from MSIs and CCs and postdoctoral fellows from URM groups in the sciences with opportunities to expand their research capabilities by networking and collaborating with established microbiologists. Aim 2: To provide faculty from MSIs and CCs and URM postdoctoral fellows from groups with opportunities to enhance their teaching and mentoring capabilities. Aim 3: To increase the number of ASM members from URM groups in the sciences. Aim 4: To increase the interest of faculty from MSIs and postdoctoral fellows from URM groups in becoming actively involved in ASM. PUBLIC HEALTH RELEVANCE: The ASM General Meeting Minority Travel Grant Program is an initiative to increase the number of underrepresented minorities (URMs) who choose and excel in careers in microbiology and related sciences. Grantees are URM postdoctoral fellows and faculty from minority-serving institutions and community colleges; with support from the program to attend the ASM General Meeting, grantees have opportunities for extensive networking with the more than 6,000 microbiologists at the meeting; partnerships to enhance research, curriculum content, and student learning; lasting mentoring relationships; and exposure to new sources of funding and career planning. Grantees also become poised to recruit and empower colleagues and students in microbiology research and education.