Chaminade University BRAD Program

 描述(由申请人提供)：查米纳德大学是一所联邦指定的少数族裔服务机构，服务于夏威夷原住民和太平洋岛民，服务于夏威夷和美国附属的太平洋地区。教职员工和学生参与研究推动了我们的使命，即减少太平洋地区土著和弱势群体在健康、正义和教育机会方面的差距。在过去十年中，Chaminade在支持这一使命的关键领域经历了变革性的增长。这些措施包括采用教师奖学金标准，翻新主要设施以支持研究，建立数百万美元的仪器核心，从R1院校招聘新教师，以及在自然科学领域发展充满活力的本科生研究文化。重大的体制挑战仍然存在，特别是：(1)依赖于外部资金来实现增长和使命，这是一个依赖学费的机构，服务于人数不足和处境不利的学生；(2)除了迅速增长的自然科学处之外，缺乏寻求教员补助金的文化；以及(3)目前的赞助研究办公室缺乏奖励前和奖励后支持的能力。Chaminade University Brad提案通过三个具体目标应对这些挑战：目标1.为受赞助项目制定和实施机构发展计划；目标2.提供授予前教师发展渠道，促进Chaminade教师在与NIH使命相关的生物医学和行为学科中寻求资助行为和竞争成功；目标3.为受赠者和授予机构提供良好的获奖后服务环境。在布拉德资助期结束时，查米诺大学将在生物医学和行为科学领域提供以任务为中心的研究和方案活动，这方面的地位将大大增强。布拉德基金将创造一种氛围，使我们能够有效地教育和增强下一代夏威夷和太平洋岛民学生作为研究人员和实践者的能力，他们能够解决家乡社区在健康、社会正义和机会方面的差距。

 DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Chaminade University is a Federally-designated Minority-serving, Native Hawaiian- and Pacific Islander-serving institution serving Hawaii and the US-affiliated Pacific. Faculty and student participation in research advances our mission of reducing disparities in health, justice and educational opportunity for indigenous and disadvantaged peoples of the Pacific. Over the last decade Chaminade has undergone transformational growth in key areas that support this mission. These include adoption of faculty standards for scholarship, major facilities renovation to support research, establishing multi-million dollar instrumentation cores, recruitment of new faculty from R1 institutions, and development of a vibrant undergraduate research culture in the Natural Sciences. Significant institutional challenges remain, specifically; (1) the dependence on extramural monies to achieve growth and mission in a tuition-dependent institution serving under-represented and disadvantaged students, (2) lack of a faculty grant- seeking culture beyond the rapidly growing Natural Sciences Division, and (3) lack of capacity for pre- and post-award support in the current Office of Sponsored Research. The Chaminade University BRAD proposal addresses these challenges through three Specific Aims: Aim 1. Develop and implement an Institutional Development Plan for sponsored programs; Aim 2. Provide a pre-award faculty development pipeline that promotes grant seeking behaviors and competitive success in Chaminade faculty from biomedical and behavioral disciplines relevant to the NIH mission; Aim 3. Provide an excellent post-award service environment for grantees and granting agencies. At the conclusion of the BRAD grant period, Chaminade University will be in a significantly stronger position to deliver mission-centered research and programmatic activities in the areas of biomedical and behavioral sciences. BRAD funding will create a climate in which we can effectively educate and empower the next generation of Hawaiian and Pacific Islander students as researchers and practitioners who can address disparities in health, social justice and opportunity in their home communities.