TRIAD: Reforming Graduate Education by Integrating Teaching, Research, and Industry Applications to Deepen Scientific Understanding

项目名称：TRIAD：整合教学、科研和产业应用，深化科学理解，改革研究生教育田纳西州立大学（TSU）合作负责人：Anthony Farone博士，Mary Farone博士，E. Lewis Myles博士，Kim Sadler, Ed.D.。TRIAD项目将在田纳西州中部的研究生（GF）、合作教师（PT）及其高中生物学生，以及生物技术/生物医学产业合作伙伴（IP）之间建立三重联系。主题是？细胞与分子生物学研究的应用TRIAD将允许GFs(1)通过教学和演示提高沟通技巧，同时与pt、学生、其他GFs和ip分享他们的研究；(2)通过课堂生物单元将他们的研究与应用技术/产品联系起来；(3)与行业科学家互动。每年夏天，GF- pt对将在GF的研究实验室和IP？年代设施。根据这一经验，GF-PT合作伙伴将在GF-IP感兴趣的研究领域开发一个教学单元。GFs还将指导高中生物学生的研究项目。研究员将帮助学生提出假设，进行实验，分析数据，得出结论，并向田纳西州初级科学院提交报告。TRIAD的智力价值包括研究，以确定行业互动和研究指导经验是否能培养更好的研究生科学家，以及让PTs及其学生参与基于探究的研究是否会提高生物学的标准化考试成绩和/或鼓励更多学生从事STEM职业。TRIAD项目的三重互动将通过行业联系和K-12与STEM研究生教育的经验产生广泛的影响；吸引高中生物学生参与探究性研究；与行业合作伙伴扩大长期、可持续的项目，影响科学教育的连续性（K-20+）。

Title of Project: TRIAD: Reforming Graduate Education by Integrating Teaching, Research, and Industry Applications to Deepen Scientific Understanding Institutions: Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU); Tennessee State University (TSU)Co-PIs: Anthony Farone, Ph.D., Mary Farone, Ph.D., E. Lewis Myles, Ph.D., Kim Sadler, Ed.D. The TRIAD program will make a three-fold connection between graduate fellows (GF), partner teachers (PT) and their high school biology students, and biotechnology/biomedical industry partners (IP) in middle Tennessee. The theme is ?Applications of Cellular and Molecular Biology Research.? TRIAD will allow GFs to (1) improve communication skills through teaching and presentations while sharing their research with PTs, students, other GFs, and IPs; (2) connect their research to applied technologies/products through a classroom biology unit; and (3) interact with industry scientists. Each summer, GF-PT pairs will spend time in the research laboratory of the GF and in the IP?s facility. Following this experience, the GF-PT pair will develop a teaching unit on a research area of interest to the GF-IP. GFs will also mentor high school biology students in research projects. Fellows will help students develop hypotheses, conduct experiments, analyze data, draw conclusions, and submit a presentation to the Tennessee Junior Academy of Science. Intellectual merit of TRIAD includes research to determine if industry interactions and research mentoring experiences create better prepared graduate student scientists, and if engaging PTs and their students in inquiry-based research with GFs will increase standardized test scores in biology and/or encourage more students to pursue STEM careers.The TRIAD program three-fold interactions will have broad impacts through industry connections and a K-12 experience with STEM graduate education; engaging high school biology students from high-need schools in inquiry-based research; and with industry partnerships extending long-term, sustainable programs impacting the science education continuum (K-20+).