NRT-IGE: Nanomedicine Academy of Minority Serving Institutions

NRT-IGE：少数民族服务机构纳米医学研究院纳米医学是一种新兴的范式，旨在开发经过工程处理的纳米尺寸粒子来解决现代医学中的关键问题，如疾病的早期诊断和治疗药物的靶向输送。这一领域对学生来说是令人兴奋的，世界各地都有在这一领域进行培训的需求。在东北大学的研究生教育创新(IGE)轨道上，这项国家科学基金会研究培训(NRT)奖将把纳米医学研究的前沿进展转化为教育模式，以试点和测试一个可扩展的互动网络，使低资源机构能够建设纳米医学培训能力，并在这一新兴领域发展学位课程。该项目将在五个机构的大量国家学生之间建立一种互惠的知识共享关系。这种新的高等教育模式的成功实施预计将扩大少数族裔在纳米医疗劳动力中的参与，从而减少卫生劳动力中的差距，建立新的学位课程，并为在其他学科创建类似的教育课程提供蓝图。该项目的目标是创建一个可扩展的知识传授和科学协作网络，旨在使学生能够从专家讲师以及不受地理位置限制的同行那里学习。合作伙伴包括五所研究型大学，它们有向代表性不足的社区提供高等教育的传统？东北大学、波多黎各大学、塔斯基吉大学、摩根州立大学和佛罗里达国际大学。该项目将通过基于网络的实时视频会议协议提供同步内容，允许学生与其他大学的教师和同行实时互动。将创建一个并行的企业级在线学习环境，以便进行以团队为基础的讨论和任务。将提供的课程包括纳米医学导论、纳米医学研究技术、纳米/生物医学商业化和纳米医学研讨会系列。每个机构的教师辅导员将协调物理和在线课堂环境，为跨机构作业做出贡献，并提供补充指导。学生将通过在每个合作机构建立等同的课程，在其本国机构获得学位学分。这些学习工具的实施，以及对学生学习、学生人口统计和职业发展的评估，预计将产生足够的新知识，使这一新的和独特的高等教育模式能够扩展到全国计划。NSF研究培训(NRT)计划旨在鼓励STEM研究生教育培训的大胆、新的、潜在的变革和可扩展的模式的开发和实施。研究生教育创新跟踪专门致力于对研究生教育的新的、创新的和潜在的变革性方法进行试验、测试和评估。这项工作部分得到了EHR核心研究(ECR)计划的支持。ECR计划强调基础STEM教育研究，以产生该领域的基础知识。在基本、广泛和持久的关键领域进行投资：STEM学习和STEM学习环境，扩大STEM的参与，以及STEM劳动力发展。

NRT-IGE: Nanomedicine Academy of Minority Serving InstitutionsNanomedicine is an emerging paradigm that seeks to develop engineered nanometer size particles to solve key problems in modern medicine, such as early diagnosis of disease and targeted delivery of therapeutics. This field is exciting to students and there is worldwide demand for training in this area. This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award in the Innovations in Graduate Education (IGE) track to Northeastern University will translate cutting-edge advances in nanomedicine research into an education model to pilot and test a scalable, interactive network that empowers low-resource institutions to build capacity in nanomedicine training and develop degree programs in this emerging field. This project will create a reciprocal knowledge-sharing relationship among a large national pool of students across five institutions. The successful implementation of this new model of higher education is expected to broaden the participation of minorities in the nanomedicine workforce thus reducing disparities in the health workforce, establish new degree programs, and serve as a blueprint for the creation of similar education programs in other disciplines. The goal of the project is to create a scalable network for knowledge delivery and scientific collaboration that is designed to enable student learning from expert instructors as well as from peers unrestricted by geographical location. The partners include five research universities with a tradition of providing higher education to underrepresented communities ? Northeastern University, University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez, Tuskegee University, Morgan State University, and Florida International University. The project will offer synchronous content through live, web-based videoconferencing protocols, allowing students to interact with instructors and peers at other universities in real-time. A parallel enterprise-level online learning environment will be created to enable team-based discussions and assignments. Courses to be offered include Introduction to Nanomedicine, Nanomedicine Research Techniques, Nano/Biomedical Commercialization, and a Nanomedicine Seminar Series. Faculty facilitators at each institution will coordinate the physical and online classroom environments, contribute to cross-institutional assignments, and provide supplementary instruction. Students will receive degree credit at their home institution through the establishment of course-equivalency at each partner institution. The implementation of these learning tools, together with the assessment of student learning, student demographics, and career development, is expected to generate sufficient new knowledge to enable expansion of this new and unique higher education model to a nationwide program.The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new, potentially transformative, and scalable models for STEM graduate education training. The Innovations in Graduate Education Track is dedicated solely to piloting, testing, and evaluating novel, innovative, and potentially transformative approaches to graduate education.This work is supported, in part, by the EHR Core Research (ECR) program. The ECR program emphasizes fundamental STEM education research that generates foundational knowledge in the field. Investments are made in critical areas that are essential, broad and enduring: STEM learning and STEM learning environments, broadening participation in STEM, and STEM workforce development.