RCN UBE-Incubator: Interdisciplinary Communication Laboratory for Undergraduate Biology (iCLUB)

这个本科生生物学跨学科交流实验室(ICLUB)孵化器项目建立了一个本科生生物学教师社区。这些教师认为，健康的合作对他们的研究和教学至关重要，特别是在跨学科和多学科的努力中。该网络的一个主要目标是让这个教员社区与其他学科的研究合作者一起参与由生物学专家领导的传播实验室，以及跨学科的传播和传播艺术。智力优势：通信实验室的参与者识别并解决在学科交叉点进行有效协作研究的障碍。之后，作为iCLUB在线论坛的成员，与会者继续探索解决这些挑战的办法。这种专业发展的方法尤其侧重于帮助教师将跨学科交流的新技能传授给他们的本科生，作为他们实验室和课程的一部分，从而加强在本科生生物学课堂上的学习。更广泛的影响：该孵化器项目为全面的资源协调网络奠定了基础，目标是发现、创建和调查工具，为生物学教师、本科生和研究生及其跨学科工作和教学的合作者改善沟通。ICLUB孵化器正在努力实现这一主要目标，方法是巩固基础实验室研讨会，开发初始网站，建立电子邮件列表服务，举办网络研讨会，供网络参与者交流，并评估未来课程开发的需求和优先事项。该项目由生物科学局生物基础设施司和教育与人力资源局本科教育司联合资助，作为其本科生物学教育愿景和变革努力的一部分。

This Interdisciplinary Communication Laboratory for Undergraduate Biology (iCLUB) incubator project establishes a community of undergraduate biology faculty. These faculty regard healthy collaboration as essential to their research and teaching, especially in interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary efforts. A major goal of the network is the participation of this community of faculty, along with research collaborators from other disciplines such as mathematics, in Communication Labs led by experts in biology,and in interdisciplinary communication and communication arts. Intellectual Merit: Communication Lab participants identify and address barriers to effective collaborative research at disciplinary intersections. Afterwards participants continue to explore solutions to these challenges as members of iCLUB online forums. This approach to professional development particularly focuses on helping faculty transfer new skills in interdisciplinary communication to their undergraduate students as part of their labs and courses, thus enhancing learning in undergraduate biology classrooms. Broader Impacts: This incubator project provides the foundation for a comprehensive resource coordination network with the goal of discovering, creating and investigating tools for improving communication for biology faculty, undergraduate and graduate students and their collaborators working and teaching across disciplines. The iCLUB incubator is working towards this major goal by solidifying the Foundational Laboratory Workshop, developing an initial website, establishing an email list serve, hosting webinars for communication among network participants, and assessing the needs and priorities for future curriculum development.This project is being jointly funded by the Directorate for Biological Sciences, Division of Biological Infrastructure and the Directorate for Education and Human Resources, Division of Undergraduate Education as part of their Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education efforts.