University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching

描述(由申请人提供)：我们请求继续支持宾夕法尼亚大学的博士后研究和教学机会计划(Penn-Port)，该计划结合了宾夕法尼亚大学出色的博士后导师研究经验和我们在医学院、兽医和牙科医学院、艺术与科学学院或费城儿童医院的杰出研究员之一，并为博士后聘任者提供发展教学技能的机会。教学指导包括宾夕法尼亚大学教育研究生院为期一学期的正式教学方法课程，以及在少数族裔服务伙伴机构的指导教学经验，该机构在以下机构之一进行：林肯大学、美国历史上最古老的黑人大学、卡姆登的罗格大学校区和特拉华县社区学院。参与机构的课堂教学由其最有经验的教师负责监督。该计划的一个主要目标是鼓励合作机构的本科生，特别是来自代表人数不足的群体的本科生攻读科学专业、生物医学科学研究生教育和生物医学科学事业。宾夕法尼亚-波特计划的另一个目标是增加训练有素的生物医学课堂教育者的队伍，他们也是非常合格的研究科学家。在前一个(也是第一个)资助期内，该方案一半以上的被任命者是代表性不足的少数族裔。因此，我们还在处理增加进入学术生涯的少数族裔人数的必要性。我们的第三个目标是加强伙伴机构以研究为导向的教学，并促进宾夕法尼亚大学教师和伙伴少数群体服务机构之间在研究和教学方面的合作。在这一资助期间，我们为三名少数族裔教师提供了暑期工资，让他们在宾夕法尼亚大学的实验室度过暑假，从而增强了他们的研究能力。该计划已由集成学习创新公司进行了外部评估，该公司确定了我们将在下一个资助期应对的挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting continued support for the University of Pennsylvania's Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN-PORT) Program, which provides a combination of a superb mentored postdoctoral research experience at the University of Pennsylvania with one of our distinguished investigators in the Schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Dental Medicine, the College of Arts and Science or the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an opportunity for postdoctoral appointees to develop teaching skills. Instruction in teaching consists of a formal semester long course in pedagogical methods from the Graduate School of Education at PENN as well as a mentored teaching experience at a minority serving partner institution, which takes place at one of the following: Lincoln University, the nation's oldest historically Black university, the Rutger University campus at Camden, and Delaware County Community College. The classroom teaching at the participating institutions is supervised by their most experienced teaching faculty. A major objective of the program is to encourage undergraduate students, particularly those from under-represented groups, at partner institutions to pursue a major in the sciences, graduate education in the biomedical sciences, and a biomedical scientific career. A further objective of the PENN-PORT Program is to increase the pool of well-prepared biomedical classroom educators who are also extremely well qualified research scientists. During the previous (and first) funding period more than half of the appointees to this program have been under-represented minorities. Thus we are also addressing the need to increase the number of minorities entering academic careers. Our third objective is to enhance research-oriented teaching at partner institutions and foster collaboration in research and teaching between the faculty at PENN and that of partner minority- serving institutions. In this funding period we have enhanced the research capacity of three minority faculty by providing a summer salary to spend the summer in a laboratory at PENN. The program has been externally evaluated by Integrated Learning Innovations Inc., who has identified challenges that we will address in the next funding period.