EAGER GERMINATION Renewal: Extending a platform to germinate transformative science through diverse collaboration

伊利诺伊大学厄巴纳-香槟分校的这一奖项建立在以前的EAGER奖项中吸取的经验教训的基础上，以扩展和进一步评估创意生成平台，利用不同声音和观点的富有成效的互动。该平台旨在提高萌发解决重要社会挑战的变革性研究想法的可能性。目标参与者是后期研究生，早期教师和博士后学者，他们表现出从事跨机构跨学科研究的潜力，将美国印第安部落学院，历史上的黑人学院和大学，西班牙裔服务学院和大学以及赠地大学的学者联系起来。预计将产生两个重要的社会影响。首先，提高研究人员应对国家/全球重大挑战的能力，预计将带来社会和经济效益。第二，与少数群体服务机构的合作应增加历史上得不到充分服务的人口的参与、培训和专业进步，拟议的平台利用现有的学习和思维知识，目标是培养创造力和跨学科方法。具体而言，孵化变革性研究想法的有利条件包括：多个完全不同的观点的互动;参与结构化的协作过程;以及通过构思，酝酿和结晶的多个周期进行工作。EAGER最初授予这一群体的奖项证明了这一方法的原则性，重点是对全球气候变化的适应能力。在更新奖的支持下，将集中关注不同的社会挑战（粮食和水安全;能源可持续性），以完善和扩展这一框架，从而测试方法的普遍性。该研究小组将由来自美国印第安高等教育理事会（AIHEC），西班牙裔学院和大学协会（HACU），全国高等教育平等机会协会（NAFEO）和国家超级计算应用中心（NCSA）的人员组成。重复测量设计将能够收集多个行为指标。跨群体动态的定量和定性分析将探索该框架识别，编纂和执行创造性想法的能力。预计项目成果如下：（1）创造性想法的产生;（2）可持续的跨机构和跨学科网络，以促进未来的研究，解决科学的重大挑战;（3）一个完善的程序，以促进前两个成果;（4）有效性和可扩展性的证据。将为少数群体服务的机构纳入其中，使它们能够真正发出声音，这在这一调查领域开辟了新的天地。将来自不同社会文化背景的多个群体的学者聚集在一起，可以评估相对于社会同质团队的转型思维的假设效益。

This award to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign builds on lessons learned in a previous EAGER award to extend and further assess a platform for idea generation, leveraging the productive interaction of diverse voices and perspectives. The platform is intended to increase the probability of germinating transformative research ideas that address important societal challenges. Targeted participants are late stage graduate students, early stage faculty, and postdoctoral scholars who show potential for engaging in cross-institutional interdisciplinary research linking scholars from American Indian Tribal Colleges, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Colleges and Universities, and Land Grant Universities. Two important societal impacts are anticipated. Firstly, enhancing the ability of researchers to address key national/global challenges is expected to confer both social and economic benefit. Secondly, collaboration with minority-serving institutions should increase the participation, training and professional advancement of historically underserved populations.The proposed platform uses existing knowledge on learning and ideation with the goal of fostering creativity and interdisciplinary approaches. Specifically, favorable conditions for hatching transformative research ideas include: interaction of multiple, radically different perspectives; engaging in a structured collaboration process; and working through multiple cycles of ideation, gestation and crystallization. The initial EAGER award to this group demonstrated proof-of-principle for this approach through focusing on resilience to global climate change. Under the aegis of the renewal award, two additional cohorts will be assembled focusing on distinct societal challenges (Food and Water Security; Energy Sustainability) to refine and extend this framework, and thereby test the generalizability of the approach. The research team will be composed of personnel from the American Indian Higher Education Council (AIHEC), the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU), the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO), and from the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA). A repeated measures design will enable collection of multiple behavioral metrics. Quantitative and qualitative analyses of dynamics across groups will explore the framework's capacity to identify, codify, and execute creative ideas. Anticipated project outcomes are: (1) creative idea generation; (2) sustainable cross-institutional and interdisciplinary networks to promote future research addressing scientific grand challenges; (3) a refined procedure for facilitating the first two outcomes; and (4) evidence of efficacy and scalability. The inclusion of minority-serving institutions in a way that gives them true voice breaks new ground in this area of inquiry. Bringing together scholars from multiple groups with substantively different sociocultural backgrounds will allow evaluation of the hypothesized benefit for transformational thinking relative to socially homogenous teams.