EPSCoR: South Carolina Science and Technology Infrastructure Improvement Activities

该项目将加强南卡罗来纳州三大主要学术研究机构的研究基础设施。这三所大学将通过招聘13个终身职位，专注于教师发展活动。南卡罗来纳大学将使其化学和生物化学系的核心纳米科学教师多样化，其中7名新员工中有6名将在纳米生物学、纳米光子学、电子学和化学工程领域招聘。南卡罗来纳医科大学计划通过在神经可塑性的分子和细胞基础领域招聘四名新员工，将他们的信号转导项目转移到新的相关领域。克莱姆森大学将启动一个基于材料的生物技术项目，通过增加两名细胞生物学和组织工程学的新教员，整合工程与科学学院的材料科学和工程优势以及农业、林业和生命科学学院的生物技术优势。此外，该项目还将支持与少数族裔机构的合作研究、面向本科生、教师和高中生的暑期研究项目，以及面向研究生的工业研究培训项目。该州改善基础设施的战略目标是建立专门的研究中心，与其他机构或私营部门合作，在全国范围内竞争，争取个人研究者的建议、计划项目、共享仪器、研究培训奖励和中心拨款。该州的目标与美国国家科学基金会EPSCoR计划的目标一致，即提高EPSCoR州研究人员的国家竞争力。

This project will enhance the research infrastructure in the state of South Carolina's three major academic research institutions. The three universities will focus on faculty development activities through the recruitment of thirteen tenure-track positions. The University of South Carolina will diversify their core of nanoscience faculty in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry with six of seven new hires to be made outside the department in the areas of nanobiology and nanoscale photonics, electronics, and chemical engineering. The Medical University of South Carolina plans to transition their Signal Transduction program into new related areas by making four new hires in the area of molecular and cellular basis of neuroplasticity. Clemson University will initiate a materials based biotechnology program by integrating the materials science and engineering strengths within their College of Engineering and Science and the biotechnology strengths within their College of Agriculture, Forestry and Life Sciences through the addition of two new faculty in cell biology and tissue engineering. In addition, the project will support initiatives involving collaborative research with minority institutions, summer research programs for undergraduates, teachers and high school students, and industrial research traineeships for graduate students.The state's strategy to effect infrastructure improvements has as its goal the establishment of specialized centers of research, poised to compete nationally, in partnership with other institutions or the private sector, for individual investigator proposals, program projects, shared instrumentation, research training awards, and center grants. The state's goal is consistent with the NSF EPSCoR program goal to increase the national competitiveness of the researchers in the EPSCoR states.