Supporting Institutional Change in Undergraduate Biology Education: American Institute of Biological Sciences? Role in the PULSE Project

美国生物科学研究所（AIBS）获得了一笔赠款，用于与本科生生命科学教育合作伙伴（PULSE）计划的合作组织合作：美国国家科学基金会（NSF）、美国国立卫生研究院（NIH）、霍华德休斯医学研究所（HHMI）和PULSE计划的合作伙伴Know Innovation (KI)，以实现协调本科生生命科学教育系统变革的目标。AIBS在与社区合作和促进高质量的同行咨询和审查服务方面的核心优势，是这个独特而令人兴奋的项目的有力补充，该项目旨在推动本科生命科学教育的变革。该奖项符合“探索性研究早期概念奖”，因为它有很大的潜力，可以制定一个实施框架，在全国范围内改造生物学系。美国的高等院校。AIBS将在项目的整个生命周期内与项目合作伙伴合作：1)努力提高社区对PULSE项目的认识并鼓励参与该项目；2)在初始阶段促进对愿景与变革研究员的选择。研究员的选择和向广泛的生物教育界推广该项目是PULSE项目成功的组成部分。AIBS完全有资格开展这两项活动。该研究所拥有多年为私人基金会、政府机构和其他客户成功开展高质量同行评审的经验。亚洲新闻协会通过其公共政策和媒体关系工作，在接触目标受众方面非常成功。拟定的战略是根据多年来获得的专门知识和对有效接触目标受众所需的集中努力的了解，制定和促进关于申请和选择研究员的新闻稿。其他科学学科将了解PULSE项目的成果，因为AIBS积极参与科学、技术、工程和数学学科的合作和联盟。AIBS的结果如何？他的工作将确保这个国家的顶尖人才准备好与生命科学研究和教育领域的领导者、美国国家科学基金会、美国国立卫生研究院和HHMI合作，推动机构改革努力向前发展。所提议的活动预计将对本科生物教育界对变革的制度障碍和克服这些障碍的策略的理解的前所未有的转变作出重大贡献。

The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is awarded a grant to work with the collaborating organizations in the Partners in Undergraduate Life Science Education (PULSE) initiative: National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health-NIGMS (NIH), and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and the PULSE working partner, Know Innovation (KI), to achieve the goal of coordinating systemic change in undergraduate life science education. AIBS core strengths in working with the community and facilitating high quality peer advisory and review services are a strong addition to this unique and exciting program designed to mobilize change in undergraduate life sciences education. The award fits the EArly-concept Grants for Exploratory Research because of its high potential for producing an implementation framework for transforming biology departments within the nation?s colleges and universities.AIBS will work with the program partners throughout its lifespan by 1) working to raise awareness of the PULSE project among the community and encouraging participation in the project and 2) facilitating the selection of the Vision and Change Fellows in the initial phase. Both the selection of Fellows and promotion of the project to the broad biology education community are integral to the success of the PULSE project. AIBS is extremely well qualified to carry out both of these activities. The Institute has years of experience successfully conducting high quality peer-review for private foundations, government agencies, and other clients. AIBS has been very successful in reaching intended audiences through its public policy and media relations work. The proposed strategy for developing and promoting a press release about the Request for Applications and Selection of Fellows is based upon expertise gained over the years and knowledge about the focused effort required to effectively reach an intended audience. Other scientific disciplines will learn about the outcomes of the PULSE project because AIBS is actively involved in collaborations and coalitions across the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics disciplines. The results of AIBS?s work will ensure that the top individuals in the country are poised to work with the leaders in life science research and education, NSF, NIH, and HHMI, to move institutional reform efforts forward. The proposed activities are expected to make a significant contribution to an unprecedented transformation of the undergraduate biology education community's understanding of institutional barriers to change and of strategies for overcoming them.