Targeted Infusion Proposal: Course-embedded Model Utilizing Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to Integrate Research based Projects into the Science Curriculum

历史上的黑人学院和大学本科生计划（HBCU-UP）通过有针对性的输液项目支持开发，实施和基于证据的创新模式和方法的研究，以提高HBCU本科生的准备和成功，使他们可以追求STEM研究生课程和/或职业。奥尔巴尼州立大学将实施一个名为“利用纳米科学和纳米技术将研究项目纳入科学课程的课程嵌入式模型”的项目。该项目将通过在实验室中注入基于纳米技术的研究来改变该机构的本科科学课程。 项目目标包括注入化学、生物和物理课程的研究经验;增强学生在纳米科学和技术领域的内容知识;以及，增强学生的研究和批判性思维能力。该项目的更广泛的影响是在跨学科研究的本科生的培训，以及推广计划，以K-12学生和专业发展研讨会的高中教师开发或适应纳米技术的活动，以实施到K-12课程。研究到课程的整合是通过集中在纳米技术研究的三个轨道完成。这些轨道是：碳纳米材料的生物医学应用，其中石墨烯和铁氧体纳米颗粒的合成，功能化，表征，波-纳米颗粒相互作用和递送应用进行了研究;纳米颗粒对生物体的研究，重点是纳米颗粒对人类细胞，植物，微生物和生物大分子的影响;以及纳米技术的介绍，学生在不同的条件下制备金纳米粒子，并表征和研究其催化性能。该项目将化学、生物学和物理学学科联系起来，将纳米技术作为将研究纳入课程的中心主题。

The Historically Black Colleges and Universities Undergraduate Program (HBCU-UP) through Targeted Infusion Projects supports the development, implementation, and study of evidence-based innovative models and approaches for improving the preparation and success of HBCU undergraduate students so that they may pursue STEM graduate programs and/or careers. Albany State University will implement a project entitled: Course-embedded Model Utilizing Nanoscience and Nanotechnology to Integrate Research based Projects into the Science Curriculum. The project will transform the undergraduate science curriculum at the institution by infusing nanotechnology based research in the laboratory. Project objectives include the infusion of research experiences in chemistry, biology and physics courses; enhancement of students' content knowledge of the field of nanoscience and technology; and, enhancement of students' research and critical thinking skills. The broader impacts of the project are in the training of undergraduate students for interdisciplinary research, as well as outreach programs to K-12 students and professional development workshops for high school teachers to develop or adapt activities in nanotechnology for implementation into the K-12 curriculum.The integratation of research into the curriculum is accomplished by concentrating on three tracks of research in nanotechnology. The tracks are: the biomedical application of carbon nanomaterials, where synthesis, functionalization, characterization, wave-nanoparticle interactions and delivery applications of graphene and ferrite nanoparticles are investigated; the study of nanoparticles on living organisms where the focus is on the effect of nanoparticles on human cells, plants, and microorganisms and biological macromolecules; and an introduction of nanotechnology where students prepare gold nanoparticles under varying conditions and characterize and study their catalytic properties. This project connects the disciplines of chemistry, biology and physics using nanotechnology as the central theme for the integration of the research into the curriculum.