Discovery Corps Fellowship: Cyber-Enhancing PUI Chemistry Programs by Cambridge Structural Database System Facilitated e-Learning and Undergraduate Research

化学部支持格雷戈里M。2007-2008学年，伊利诺斯州州立大学的费伦斯担任探索军团高级研究员。 Ference将开发剑桥结构数据库（CSD）的教学子集沿着以使用剑桥结构数据库系统（CSDS）为中心的教育模块，这些模块将分发给大约20所主要的本科院校和芝加哥城市学院本科研究合作组织（URC）的10所两年制学院，该组织也得到了化学部的支持。 费伦斯将访问合作学校，为参与的教师提供关于使用CSDS及其纳入本科教学和研究的研讨会。 该项目还将广泛利用网络学习和多地点视频会议，以促进30个不同机构的教师之间的思想和最佳实践交流。 该项目将建立在费伦斯与芝加哥城市学院URC和NSF支持的STaRBURSTT（科学教学和研究通过技术带来本科生优势）网络仪器财团的参与。 参与机构将收到一个完整的，功能齐全的版本的CSDS在他们的课程和本科研究计划使用。 教师还将测试测试版的CSDS模块，以帮助开发更广泛地访问本科研究/教学社区的工具。 七十多名化学教师和一千多名学生将在这个探索军团项目的任期内受到影响。 该项目的影响将从参与教师收集的调查来衡量。探索军团奖学金计划寻求新的博士后和专业发展模式，将联合收割机的研究专长与专业服务相结合。探索团研究员通过解决国家需求领域的项目利用他们的研究专长。他们的项目提高了研究能力和基础设施，并有助于劳动力发展和创造就业机会。探索队计划支持博士后研究员和高级研究员。

The Division of Chemistry supports Gregory M. Ferrence of Illinois State University as a Discovery Corps Senior Fellow for the 2007-2008 academic year. Ferrence will develop a teaching subset of the Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) along with educational modules centered on the use of the Cambridge Structural Database System (CSDS), which will be disseminated to ~twenty primarily undergraduate institutions and to the ten two-year colleges in the Chicago City Colleges Undergraduate Research Collaborative (URC), also supported by the Chemistry Division. Ferrence will visit the partner schools to provide workshops to participating faculty on the use of the CSDS and its incorporation into undergraduate teaching and research. The project also will make extensive use of cyber-learning and multi-site video conferencing to facilitate the exchange of ideas and best practices among faculty at the thirty diverse institutions. This project will build on Ferrence's involvement with the Chicago City Colleges URC and the NSF-supported STaRBURSTT (Science Teaching and Research Bring Undergraduate Strengths Through Technology) cyber-instrumentation consortium. Participating institutions will receive a complete, fully functional version of the CSDS to use in their coursework and undergraduate research programs. Faculty also will be expected to test beta versions of the CSDS modules to help develop tools more widely accessible to the undergraduate research/teaching community. More than seventy chemistry faculty and over a thousand students will be impacted over the tenure of this Discovery Corps project. The impact of this project will be measured from surveys collected from participating faculty.The Discovery Corps Fellowship Program seeks new postdoctoral and professional development models that combine research expertise with professional service. Discovery Corps Fellows leverage their research expertise through projects that address areas of national need. Their projects enhance research capacity and infrastructure and contribute to workforce development and job creation. The Discovery Corps Program supports both Postdoctoral Fellows and Senior Fellows.