Targeted Infusion Project: Educational Partnership in Climate Change and Sustainability (EPiCCS)

汉普顿大学的有针对性的输液项目题为-气候变化和可持续发展的教育伙伴关系（EPiCCS）-旨在加强海洋环境科学系之间的持续伙伴关系&在汉普顿大学，生物系在伊丽莎白城州立大学，和海洋科学的弗吉尼亚研究所，这是威廉玛丽学院的一部分&，通过支持以可持续性和全球气候变化影响为中心的综合跨机构研究和教育经验。这三个机构有着悠久的成功协同合作历史，培训了代表性不足的本科生，并为地球科学研究生培训提供了渠道和轨迹。EPiCCS建议支持两所历史上黑人大学和学院（HBCU）的人才招聘，发展和保留，以参加跨学科的培训和教育可持续性和全球气候变化;改善两个HBCU的技术和网络基础设施，以丰富体验式探究式学习，支持新课程的开发，并使现有课程现代化;强调融合实际应用和探究式研究经验的课程培训，为实践学习提供新的机会;促进协作式跨校园网络和同行学习;在下一代地球科学家中建立口头和书面科学交流的基本能力;并通过同行和教师指导学生攻读研究生STEM学位。EPiCCS网络将形成一个可持续发展的模式，以后可能会扩展到其他HBCU和研究合作伙伴。

Hampton University's Targeted Infusion Project entitled - Educational Partnership in Climate Change and Sustainability (EPiCCS) - seeks to enhance the continuing partnership among the Marine & Environmental Science Department at Hampton University, the Biology Department at Elizabeth City State University, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, which is part of the College of William & Mary, by supporting integrated cross-institutional research and educational experiences centered on sustainability and the effects of global climate change. These three institutions have had a long history of successful synergistic collaborations that train underrepresented undergraduate students and provide conduits and trajectories to graduate training in the geosciences.EPiCCS proposes to support the recruitment, development, and retention of talented students at two Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) to participate in interdisciplinary training and education on sustainability and global climate change; to improve technology and cyber infrastructure at the two HBCUs to enrich experiential inquiry-based learning, support the development of new course offerings, and modernize current offerings; to emphasize curricular training that fuses practical applications and inquiry-based research experiences to provide new opportunities for hands-on learning; to promote collaborative cross-campus cyber and peer-learning; to build essential competencies in oral and written scientific communication in the next generation of geoscientists; and to guide students toward post-graduate STEM degrees via peer and faculty mentorship.The EPiCCS network will form a model of sustainability that may later be extended to other HBCUs and research partners.