RCN-UBE: Advancing Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs (AIM-UP!)

瞄准！（推进博物馆融入本科课程）是一个研究协调网络，产生了将自然历史博物馆的广泛档案和网络基础设施纳入本科教育的五个主要主题的新方法。这些主题探讨了跨空间和时间的复杂生物关联，地理变异，基因组的进化动力学，生物对气候变化的反应，以及病原体和宿主的共同进化社区与新兴疾病有关。瞄准！正在完善现有的努力，并开发新的综合方法，以收集为基础的大规模问题的培训，利用教育工作者，策展人，收藏管理员，数据库管理员和科学家的综合和基础广泛的专业知识，他们的教学和调查跨越各个学科，涉及到涵盖广泛的时间和空间的主题。该网络是1）开发教学和分析工具，在气候变化，进化基因组学和分子生态学的新兴领域培训学生; 2）为博物馆数据库开发教学工具，如ARCTOS，通过AIM-UP免费提供给公众，教师和科学家！网址; 3）发展一个综合的教育工作者网络，致力于解决基于知识的问题; 4）包括不同的合作者，包括少数民族和女性科学家，联邦机构生物学家，学者，国际参与者和博物馆与广大公众观众; 5）培训本科生在博物馆为基础的实地和实验室研究;以及6）特别针对代表性不足的学生开展外展工作，重点是与其社区有关的问题。网络参与者通过以下方式进行交流：1）每年在实地台站和参与机构举行为期三天的全体工作会议; 2）科学会议上的讲习班; 3）通过互动式互联网服务（例如，视频会议Wiggio瞄准blog，ARCTOS blog）; 4）博物馆教育工作者的短期交流，以加强内容开发; 5）在一个主办机构为本科生举办短期课程（两周），以测试新方法; 6）在新墨西哥州大学举办秋季学期研讨会课程（通过网络广播向所有网络参与者提供）。瞄准！作为阿拉斯加大学、哈佛大学、加州大学伯克利分校和新墨西哥州大学之间的合作，作为整合这些机构的专业知识和经验的一种方式，目前正在扩大到其他教育机构、联邦机构、还有一个大型博物馆该项目由生物科学理事会和本科教育部联合支持。

AIM-UP! (Advancing the Integration of Museums into Undergraduate Programs) is aresearch coordination network that produces new ways of incorporating the extensive archives and cyberinfrastructure of natural history museums into undergraduate education under five primary themes. These themes explore complex biotic associations across space and time, geographic variation, evolutionary dynamics of genomes, biotic response to climate change, and coevolving communities of pathogens and hosts as related to emerging diseases. AIM-UP! is refining existing efforts and developing new integrated approaches to collections-based training in large-scale questions using the combined and broadly-based expertise of educators, curators, collection managers, database managers, and scientists whose teaching and investigations span across various disciplines and relate to topics covering a wide spectrum of time and space. The network is 1) developing teaching and analytic tools in training students in the emerging fields of climate change, evolutionary genomics and molecular ecology; 2) developing of instructional tools for museum databases, such as ARCTOS, that are freely available to the public, teachers, and scientists via the AIM-UP! website; 3) developing an integrated network of educators working on specimen-based questions; 4) including diverse collaborators, including minority and female scientists, federal agency biologists, academics, international participants, and museums with large public audiences; 5) training undergraduate students in museum-based field and laboratory research; and 6) conducting outreach efforts targeted especially to underrepresented students with an emphasis on issues relevant to their communities. Network participants communicate through 1) an annual three-day all-hands working meeting at field stations and participating institutions; 2) workshops at scientific meetings; 3) frequent interaction via interactive internet services (e.g., video conferencing, Wiggio, AIM-UP! blog, ARCTOS blog); 4) short-term exchanges of museum educators for intensive content development; 5) a short course (two weeks) for undergraduate students at 1 host institution to beta-test new approaches, and 6) a fall semester seminar course at the University of New Mexico (available via webcasting to all network participants). While AIM-UP! began as a collaboration between the University of Alaska, Harvard University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the University of New Mexico as a way to integrate expertise and experiences across these institutions, it is currently being expanded to other educational institutions, federal agencies, and a large museum-based genetic consortium in Canada.This project is supported jointly by the Biological Sciences Directorate and the Division of Undergraduate Education.