NIA MSTEM: Advancing Diversity in Aging Research through Undergraduate Education at the University of the District of Columbia

NIA MSTEM：哥伦比亚特区大学通过本科教育推进老龄化研究的多样性

• 批准号: 10017595
• 负责人: Lara A Thompson
• 金额: $ 38.72万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-09-01 至 2025-05-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/10017595
• 关键词: Active Learning; African American; Age-Years; Aging; Alzheimer' s Disease; Area; Awareness; Behavioral Research; Biomedical Engineering; Biomedical Research; Capital; Clinical Research; Communication; Communities; Country; Data Analytics; Degree program; Development; Device Designs; Devices; District of Columbia; Ecosystem; Education; Educational Curriculum; Elderly; Engineering; Equilibrium; Exposure to; Faculty; Fostering; Funding; Gait; Gender; Gerontology; Goals; Graduate Education; Grant; Health; Historically Black Colleges and Universities; Human Resources; Image; Individual; Infrastructure; Institutes; Institution; Intervention; Investigation; Journals; Lead; Medical Students; Mentors; Mentorship; Methodology; Minority; Modeling; Oral; Osteoporosis; Play; Population; Problem Solving; Public Health; Publications; Research; Research Activity; Research Personnel; Research Project Grants; Research Training; Resources; Role; Science; Series; Site; Societies; Students; Talents; Training; Underrepresented Minority; Universities; Washington; college; community living; design; doctoral student; education research; education resources; experience; falls; global health; health training; higher education; innovation; minority undergraduate; next generation; novel; outreach; peer; programs; skills; student training; symposium; therapy design; trend; undergraduate education; undergraduate research; undergraduate student; underrepresented minority student; ward

PROJECT SUMMARY/ABSTRACT Through our NIA MSTEM Project (Advancing Diversity in Aging Research through Undergraduate Education at the University of the District of Columbia) we seek to create and foster aging-related research and curricular experiences for underrepresented minority (URM) students at the University of the District of Columbia (UDC), a historically black college and university (HBCU). Of significant societal relevance, is our long-term goal to increase the number of URM professionals aimed at solving problems tied to aging via research investigations (studies) and interventions (designs and devices). It is projected that the number of individuals older than 50 years of age will increase to 1.2 billion by 2025 worldwide, however, aging-related research training is nascent at the undergraduate levels & diversity is limited. The objectives of this project are to create and foster aging-related: 1) research experiences (tied to falls, imaging, and data analytics); 2) new and unique curricular experiences tied to freshman and senior design projects, practicum & seminars, and professional student club activities; and 3) professional development via mentorship, dissemination and outreach for the URM undergraduate student demographic at UDC. Our central hypothesis is that through the above objectives we will produce a diverse cadre of professionals that are well-equipped to solve issues tied to aging. This project is distinct, yet dovetails nicely with, previous and current sponsored research activities at UDC focused on undergraduate aging-related (balance) research and Biomedical Engineering (BME) education. The project’s contribution is significant in that it will lead to new scientific findings on aging-related research tied to balance & falls, imaging, and analytics, as well as increase the number of trained URM undergraduate students captivated by aging-related research. Research experiences, typically only available to students at the graduate level, will be provided to URM undergraduates at UDC. The proposed project is innovative in that it will capitalize on the fact that UDC is only 1 of 3 HBCUs nationwide with a BS in BME degree program and, more importantly, UDC is the only HBCU which currently fosters BME-focused aging research. Further, the project will provide URM undergraduates an unparalleled ecosystem in aging-related research, curricula, and professional development which interweaves a unique, meaningful network of the: UDC BME-focused personnel, the Department on Aging and Community Living (DACL) which has community sites across all 8 wards of Washington, DC, and the UDC Institute of Gerontology (IOG). Further, this project may have an impact on and serve as a model for minority-serving institutes (MSIs) and non-MSIs nationwide seeking to create their undergraduate aging-related research and education infrastructure.

项目摘要/摘要 通过我们的NIA MESTEM项目（通过本科发展衰老研究的多样性 我们在哥伦比亚特区的教育）我们寻求创建和培养与衰老有关的研究 以及当前代表性不足的少数民族（URM）学生的经验 哥伦比亚（UDC），历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）。我们的社会相关性很大，是我们的 长期目标是增加旨在解决与衰老有关的问题的URM专业人员的数量 研究调查（研究）和干预措施（设计和设备）。预计数量 到2025年，全球50岁以上的个人将增加到12亿 研究培训在本科级别和多样性的有限度是有限的。 该项目的目标是创建和培养与衰老有关的：1）研究经验（与瀑布有关， 成像和数据分析）； 2）与新生和高级设计相关的新的和独特的课程体验 项目，实践和半岛和专业学生俱乐部活动； 3）专业发展通过 UDC的URM本科生人口统计学的识别，传播和宣传。我们的 中心假设是，通过上述目标，我们将生产一批专业人士， 有足够的能力解决与衰老有关的问题。这个项目是不同的，但与以前的和 UDC当前赞助的研究活动的重点是本科衰老相关（平衡）研究 和生物医学工程（BME）教育。 该项目的贡献很大，因为它将导致与衰老有关的新科学发现 与平衡和瀑布，成像和分析相关的研究，并增加了训练有素的URM数量 本科生被与衰老有关的研究迷住了。研究经验，通常仅可用 向研究生一级的学生提供给UDC的URM本科生。拟议的项目是 创新性的是，它将利用这一事实，即UDC在全国3 hbcus中只有1个，而BM的BS为BS 学位课程，更重要的是，UDC是唯一促进BME衰老的HBCU 研究。此外，该项目将为URM本科生提供与衰老有关的无与伦比的生态系统 研究，课程和专业发展，它们交织了一个独特的，有意义的网络： UDC BME专注的人员，老化和社区生活部（DACL） 华盛顿特区所有8个病房的社区站点和UDC老年学院（IOG）。更远， 该项目可能会影响并作为少数派服务机构（MSI）和非MSIS的模型 在全国范围内寻求创建与衰老有关的研究和教育基础设施。