CCNY/UR SEM Collaborative

纽约城市学院(CCNY)的结构和界面分析中心(CASI)，这是一个为少数群体服务的机构；以及光致电荷转移中心(CPCT)：罗切斯特大学的NSF支持的科学和技术中心，将是合作伙伴。CASI和CPCT将建立长期的扫描电子显微镜教育和(合作)研究关系，这将提高城市学院学生和教职员工的扫描电子显微镜机会的数量和质量，并改善少数族裔获得扫描电子显微镜职业的机会。广泛地说，合作的目标是(1)产生尖端研究，代表不足的个人在研究的进行中发挥基础和关键作用；(2)招聘、留住和毕业科学家和工程师。这一努力的关键战略是为从高中到研究生教育水平的学生提供解决科学问题、跨学科研究和材料科学知识的经验。CASI-CPCT关系中还纳入了一种新的协作教育基础设施，它促进了“虚拟”和现场研究体验。针对大学生的教育活动序列将效仿CASI计划，该计划已有九年的历史，非常成功，该计划支持少数族裔研究生和本科生为科学和工程职业做准备。促进学生参与的途径将包括：(I)发展两周一次的机构间研讨会方案，旨在通过使用将为此目的而建立的“黑板”视频会议技术，使学生受众接触CCNY-CASI和UR-CPCT共同感兴趣的研究领域--这一基础设施还将用于支持研究、实习和师生之间所有其他层次的机构间讨论；(Ii)每年选定数量的CASI本科生将在CPCT进行暑期研究；(Iii)CCNY-CASI的学生和教职员工将出席CPCT年会，并通过(学生)海报和(学生/CASI-教职员工)口头陈述为活动做出贡献；(Iv)CCNY和UR教员科学家将共同开发一个同行领导的、团队的物理化学实验室讲习班，这些科学家已经与NSF资助的研讨会化学项目有关；以及(V)CASI的卫星研究工作，以补充和扩大CPCT所进行的研究。最后，高中生，强调在科学和工程中代表性不足的群体，并对科学职业感兴趣，将在每年夏天被选为实践研究参与者。研究地点将由参与协作的调查人员的实验室/研究设施组成。这一经历将加强高中(科学)学生的教育，并使他们为新的国家科学基金会标准的倡议做好准备，该标准强烈建议在反映实验室科学方法论的科学探究框架内，从K-12年级开始教授科学。由于该计划的共生教育和研究部分，以及两个中心及其各自机构的强烈承诺，CCNY-CASI和UR-CPCT之间的合作将是长期的，并在NSF资金终止后继续下去。

The Center for Analysis of Structures and Interfaces (CASI) at the City College of New York (CCNY), a minority-serving institution; and the Center for Photoinduced Charge Transfer (CPCT): an NSF-supported Science and Technology Center at the University of Rochester, will be collaborative partners. CASI and CPCT will establish a long-term SEM education and (collaborative) research relationship that will enhance the quantity and quality of SEM opportunities for students and faculty members at the City College, and result in improved minority access to SEM careers. The goals of the collaboration are, broadly stated, (1) to produce cutting-edge research, with underrepresented individuals playing a fundamental and pivotal role in the conduct of the research; (2) to recruit, retain, and graduate scientists and engineers. The key strategy of this effort is to provide students from high school to graduate educational levels an experience in scientific problem solving, interdisciplinary research, and material science knowledge. Also incorporated into the CASI-CPCT relationship is a novel collaborative educational infrastructure that facilitates "virtual" and on-site research experiences. The sequence of educational activities for college students will be modeled on the highly successful nine-year old CASI program, which supports preparation of minority graduate and undergraduate students for science and engineering careers. Avenues for advancement of student participation will include: (i) the development of bi-weekly, inter-institutional seminar programs, which will be designed to expose audiences of SEM students to areas of mutual research interests at both CCNY-CASI and UR-CPCT, through the use of "chalkboard" video-conferencing technology, which will be established for this purpose-this infrastructure will also be used to support research, internships, and all other levels of inter-institutional discussions between faculty and students; (ii) annually a selected number of CASI undergraduate students will conduct summer research at the CPCT; (iii) CCNY-CASI students and faculty will attend the CPCT annual conference, and contribute to the event through (student) poster and (student/CASI-faculty) oral presentations; (iv) a peer-led, team laboratory workshop in physical chemistry would be jointly developed by CCNY and UR faculty scientists that are already associated with the NSF-funded Workshop Chemistry Project; and (v) satellite research efforts at CASI that complement and expand research that is pursued at CPCT. Finally, high school students, emphasizing groups underrepresented in science and engineering, and interested in science careers, will be selected for hands-on research participation each summer. Research sites will consist of the laboratory/research facilities of the investigators participating in the collaboration. This experience will enhance the education of high school (science) students and equip them for the initiatives of the new National Science Foundation Standards, which strongly recommend that science be taught from grades K-12, within a framework of science inquiry that mirrors the methodologies of laboratory science. As a result of the symbiotic educational and research components of the program, and the strongly stated commitments of both centers and their respective institutions, the collaboration between CCNY-CASI and UR-CPCT will be long-term and continue after NSF funding has terminated.