Institutional Research and Academic Career Development Awards (IRACDA) - UNC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

项目概要/摘要。 IRACDA-ESTA计划建议继续其22年以上的历史，与4个机构合作， 北卡罗来纳州提供专门的研究和学术职业发展培训， 博士后学者4个合作机构都有一个历史使命，教育学生 来自生物医学科学领域代表性不足的背景（北卡罗来纳州中央大学， 北卡罗来纳州A&T州立大学;彭布罗克和约翰逊C史密斯大学）。通过这些 IRACDA-EMBA项目将：a）提供严格的研究和教学培训， STEM学科的博士后学者的多元化群体B）发展专业，导师， 和管理技能所需的学者过渡到独立的学术生涯，以及c） 丰富合作院校的本科教学和辅导环境。具体目标 1在UNC-CH校园的实验室内提供尖端的博士后研究培训， 重视研究思路的创新发展，文稿准备，实验室 管理和赠款写作。具体目标2提供了一个深入的教学经验，包括 课堂教学技术的最新进展，包括CURE的发展 （基于课堂的本科研究经验）和包容性的教学实践。在 此外，IRACDA-EMBA项目将通过课程扩展学者的职业发展， 科学家促进反种族主义对话和平等空间，提供包容性培训， 安全和支持性的教学环境。具体目标3为每位学者提供 丰富的经验指导学生在研究项目，同时加强研究和 在我们的合作机构进行教学/指导任务。IRACDA将组织虚拟研究 专题讨论会突出了我们伙伴机构和UNC-CH生物医学 laboratories.学者作为研究导师的培训也将通过两个机会得到加强 同时丰富了合作机构STEM本科生的研究培训。 首先，学者们将在我们的暑期研究计划中担任导师，该计划将来自 合作大学到研究实验室。第二，IRACDA的学者将有 有机会与合作机构的教师共同指导本科生的荣誉（或 独立研究项目。该方案提出了12名学者的稳定状态，其中4名新 每年都有学者被录取。学者将被任命为3年，与第四年的 在他们的研究导师的实验室内提供支持。在课程结束后，学者们 为一系列机构的学术职位做好了充分的准备，包括研究密集型和 主要是本科院校（PUI）。

Project Summary/Abstract. The IRACDA-UNC program proposes to continue its 22+ year history by partnering with 4 institutions in North Carolina to provide specialized research and academic career development training for postdoctoral scholars. Each of the 4 partner institutions has an historical mission to educate students from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical sciences (North Carolina Central University, North Carolina A&T State University; UNC Pembroke and Johnson C Smith University). Through these partnerships, the IRACDA-UNC program will a) provide rigorous research and teaching training for a diverse group of postdoctoral scholars in the STEM disciplines b) develop the professional, mentorship, and management skills needed for scholars to transition into independent academic careers, and c) enrich the undergraduate teaching and mentoring environment at the partner institutions. Specific Aim 1 provides cutting edge postdoctoral research training within laboratories on the UNC-CH campus with emphasis on the development of innovative research ideas, manuscript preparation, laboratory management, and grant writing. Specific Aim 2 provides an in-depth teaching experience that includes the latest advances in classroom pedagogical techniques, including the development of CUREs (Classroom-based Undergraduate Research Experiences) and inclusive teaching practices. In addition, the IRACDA-UNC program will expand the scholars’ career development with a curriculum, Scientists Promoting Anti-Racist Conversations and Equity SPACE, which provides training in inclusive, safe, and supportive teaching and learning environments. Specific Aim 3 provides each scholar with extensive experience mentoring students in research projects while strengthening the research and teaching/mentoring missions at our partner institutions. IRACDA-UNC will organize virtual research symposia that highlight topics of common interest to our partner institutions and to UNC-CH’s biomedical laboratories. The scholars’ training as research mentors will also be enhanced through two opportunities that simultaneously enrich the research training for STEM undergraduates at the partner institutions. First, scholars will mentor in our Summer Research Program, which brings undergraduate students from the partner universities to UNC’s research laboratories. Second, IRACDA-UNC scholars will have the opportunity to co-mentor with a faculty member of the partner institution an undergraduate’s honors (or independent study) research project. The program proposes a steady state of 12 scholars, with 4 new scholars admitted to the program each year. Scholars will be appointed for 3 years, with a 4th year of support available within their research mentors’ laboratories. Upon completion of the program, scholars are well prepared for academic positions at a range of institutions, including research-intensive and primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs).