RCN: Communications Media for Mineralized Tissue Research

此拨款将提供资源以建立三种传播媒体，以促进骨研究的进展。三个沟通/互动媒体结构提出(a)每月研讨会系列在帝国大厦对面,很近的主要交通枢纽在纽约市,(b)一年一度的研讨会主题mechanosensory系统相关骨和(c)的开发一个网站,支持和赞助商一个公告牌,网络空间骨杂志俱乐部,网络空间骨研讨会系列和其他类型的网络通信。拟议的每月研讨会系列和网站的影响将非常广泛，从本科生到高级研究教授。另一方面，年度研讨会更关注活跃的研究人员，但活跃的研究人员的学生将像过去一样在这些研讨会上做报告。因此，这三种媒体结构在专业化水平上分层，与专业培训水平相对应。此外，在不同的人群中，期望的影响是不同的。我们希望对年轻的参与者产生的影响是培养他们对这一主题的终身兴趣，尽管他们可能不会以研究这一领域为生计。对已经投入研究的研究者（无论是国内的还是国际的）期望的影响是让这些媒体成为他/她日常研究生活的一部分，就像听天气预报一样。本次交流活动的主要目的是在所有参与者中，特别是参与的研究生和本科生之间，建立兴趣，社区意识，并加强对骨骼研究的理解。这将通过吸收信息并使这些信息对参与者、更远的研究人员和广大公众可访问和有用来实现。对于做研究的人来说，目标不是指示研究方向，而是通过提出框架良好的研究问题来激发研究思维。因此，每年将由核心参与者制定某些研究问题，这些研究问题将在传播媒介上仔细发展。核心参与者是Adele Boskey（特殊外科医院矿化组织科主任，康奈尔大学威尔医学院生物化学教授），Timothy Bromage（纽约市大亨特学院硬组织研究部门主任，人类学教授），Stephen C. Cowin (PI，纽约生物医学工程中心（NYCBE）主任、纽约城市大学（CUNY）城市学院机械工程教授、Susannah P. friton（纽约生物医学工程中心组织力学实验室主任、纽约城市大学机械工程助理教授）、X. Edward Guo（骨骼生物工程实验室主任、哥伦比亚大学生物工程助理教授）、Clinton T. Rubin（肌肉骨骼研究实验室主任，纽约州立大学石溪分校骨科和机械工程系教授）和Mitchell B. Schaffler（西奈山医学院骨科研究主任，骨科、细胞生物学和解剖学教授）。这些人中的每一个都代表了一个由资深骨骼研究人员、研究生以及大多数情况下的本科生组成的社区。

This grant will provide the resources to establish three communications media to foster the progress of bone research. The three communication/interaction media structures proposed are (a) a monthly Seminar Series at a site across the street from the Empire State Building, very near the major transportation hubs in New York City, (b) an Annual Workshop on a topic related to the mechanosensory system in bone and (c) the development of a Website that supports and sponsors a Bulletin Board, Cyberspace Bone Journal Club, Cyberspace Bone Seminar Series and other types of networking communications. The impact of the proposed monthly Seminar Series and the Website will be very broad in the spectrum of people they reach, from undergraduate to senior research professor. The Annual Workshop, on the other hand, is more focused on the active researcher, but students who are active researchers will make presentations as they have done in the past in these workshops. Thus, these three media structures are layered in levels of specialization corresponding to level of professional training. Moreover, the impact desired is different at the different ends of this people spectrum. The impact desired with the younger of our participants is to develop in them a lifelong interest in the subject, although they may not make research in this area a livelihood. The impact desired with the already committed researcher (both national and international) is to have these media become a part of his/her daily research life, like listening to the weather report. The primary objective of this proposed communication activity is to create interest, a sense of community, and enhanced understanding in bone research amongst all the participants, especially the involved graduate and undergraduate students. This will be achieved by assimilating information and making this information accessible and useful to participants, researchers farther afield, and the public at large. With respect to the people doing research, the objective is not to dictate research directions, but to stimulate research thinking by posing well-framed research questions. Thus, each year certain research questions will be formulated by the core participants and these research questions will be carefully developed in the communications media. The core participants are Adele Boskey (Head of the Mineralized Tissue Section at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Professor of Biochemistry at the Weill Medical College of Cornell University), Timothy Bromage (Director of the Hard Tissue Research Unit and Professor of Anthropology at Hunter College of CUNY), Stephen C. Cowin (PI, Director of the New York Center for Biomedical Engineering (NYCBE) and Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of the City University of New York (CUNY)), Susannah P. Fritton (Director of the Tissue Mechanics Laboratory, New York Center for Biomedical Engineering and Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the City College of CUNY), X. Edward Guo (Director of the Bone Bioengineering Laboratory and Assistant Professor of Bioengineering at Columbia University), Clinton T. Rubin (Director of the Musculo-Skeletal Research Laboratory and Professor in the Departments of Orthopedics and Mechanical Engineering at SUNY Stony Brook) and Mitchell B. Schaffler (Director of Orthopaedic Research and Professor of Orthopedics, Cell Biology and Anatomy at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine). Each of these people represents a community consisting of senior bone research people, graduate students and, in most cases, undergraduate students.