Technical Assistance Workshops to Broaden Participation in the National Science Foundation's Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program

少数民族素质教育（QEM）网络得到了美国国家科学基金会（NSF）的支持，为来自少数民族服务机构（msi）的50名科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）教师提供了一个提案开发研讨会，这些教师打算向NSF的主要研究仪器（MRI）计划提交提案。该项目的总体目标是增加msi获得MRI奖励的数量。智力优势：实现该项目的总体目标将为msi的STEM教师提供最先进的仪器，用于开展将导致新知识和应用的研究。因此，这群受资助者可以提高他们的学术生产力；将他们的研究成果整合到他们所教授的课程中；并为学生提供使用获得的或开发的仪器的实践经验。更广泛的影响：增加msi在MRI项目中的参与将丰富教育项目和研究机会，这些机构在培养少数族裔STEM学士学位获得者和不成比例地培养少数族裔STEM博士学位的毕业生方面发挥重要作用。在这些机构中，核磁共振支持的仪器将改善学生获得由积极从事研究的教师提供的高质量STEM教育的机会，并将更好地为他们成功地攻读STEM研究生学位或加入国家的STEM劳动力做好准备。通过MRI奖励获得的仪器将通过扩大本科生和研究生的研究机会和提高教师的学术生产力，显著加强这些机构的STEM教育。

The Quality Education for Minorities (QEM) Network has received support from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to offer a proposal development workshop for 50 Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) faculty from Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) who intend to submit proposals to the NSF's Major Research Instrumentation (MRI) Program. The project's overall goal is to increase the number of MRI awards to MSIs. Intellectual Merit: Achieving the project's overall goal will provide STEM faculty at MSIs with state-of-the art instrumentation with which to conduct research that will lead to new knowledge and applications. As a result, this group of grantees can increase their scholarly productivity; integrate their research findings into the courses they teach; and provide their students with hands-on experiences using the acquired or developed instrumentation. Broader Impacts: Increasing the participation of MSIs in the MRI Program will enrich the education program and research opportunities at institutions that play a major role in the production of minority STEM baccalaureate degree recipients and that disproportionately produce minority graduates who earn STEM doctoral degrees. MRI-supported instrumentation at these institutions will improve students' access to a high quality STEM education provided by faculty actively engaged in research and will better prepare them to successfully pursue STEM graduate degrees or join the Nation's STEM workforce. Instrumentation, obtained through MRI awards, will significantly enhance STEM education at these institutions through expanded undergraduate and graduate research opportunities and increased faculty scholarly productivity.