Faculty Research and Education Development Program II

在过去的40年里，我们通过科学的视角扩大了对世界的了解；然而，人们认识到，我们没有充分利用我们的科学人才库。学院研究和教育发展计划(FRED)寻求通过博士后学者和初级教员的导师关系扩大参与，他们中的许多人来自历史上的群体，目前在科学界的代表性不足。此外，考虑到少数族裔服务机构(MSI)对扩大科学参与度的影响，弗雷德计划还鼓励MSI的教职员工参与。FRED是由少数族裔事务委员会(MAC)开发的，该委员会是美国细胞生物学学会(ASCB)的一个常设委员会，负责解决历史上代表性不足的细胞生物学家的问题。具体来说，FRED计划将初级科学家与在研究密集型机构表现出资金成功的资深导师进行匹配，建立长期的指导关系，重点是准备研究或教育拨款并将其提交给外部资助机构。在过去的7年里，46名历史上代表性不足的少数族裔服务机构(MSI)的学者或初级教员参加了弗雷德计划，资助成功率为62%，其中27%获得了不止一个奖项。FRED项目的组织者包括参加职业发展研讨会的参与者，参与指导关系以准备提案，以及ASCB年度会议上的模拟审查小组，以审查提案并提供学员意见，然后提交给资助机构。FRED-II计划将继续执行改善初级教员的赠款资助成功和职业发展的使命，并将为首次提交提案未成功并将寻求重新提交其提案的FRED学员实施改进的支持途径。它将继续成功地举办夏季讲习班，主要在MSI附近或在MSI举办。此外，为了配合国家在增加教师多样性方面的要求，该计划将创建一个FRED前研讨会，旨在吸引潜在的FRED学员为未来的FRED研讨会开发申请者池。FRED-II计划将继续支持和培养下一代研究科学家和领导者，并扩大他们对科学的参与。FRED-II计划将通过与资深教员的结构化指导关系来支持初级教员和博士后学者。这项为期一年的计划将包括为所有弗雷德学员举办的夏季职业发展研讨会，每月举行的导师-学员会议，以及对导师-学员校园的面对面访问。弗雷德学员将在他们选择的导师的支持下制定一份提案，并参加在ASCB年度会议上主办的冬季模拟审查小组。会议和互访将继续进行，直到将提案提交给联邦机构。FRED-II还将包括继续参与，并为FRED学员提供额外的支持，这些学员在第一次尝试时未能获得资金。FRED-II计划还将包括评估工作，以告知领导层该计划的有效性和需要改进的领域。总体而言，FRED-II计划通过导师和资助的成功，促进研究机构和MSI中未被充分代表的初级教师和博士后学者的职业生涯。这一奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Over the past 40 years, there has been an expansion in our understanding of the world through a scientific lens; however, there is a recognition that we are not fully engaging our scientific talent pool. The Faculty Research and Educational Development (FRED) Program seeks to broaden participation through mentored relationships for postdoctoral scholars and junior faculty members, many of whom are from groups historically and currently underrepresented in the sciences. In addition, given the impact that minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have on broadening participation in the sciences, the FRED program also encourages the participation of faculty members at MSIs. FRED was developed by the Minorities Affairs Committee (MAC), a standing committee of the American Society for Cell Biology (ASCB) tasked with addressing issues of historically underrepresented cell biologists. Specifically, the FRED program matches junior scientists with senior mentors who have demonstrated funding success at research-intensive institutions for a long-term mentoring relationship focused on the preparation and submission of a research or educational grant to an external funding agency. Over the past 7 years, 46 historically underrepresented scholars or junior faculty at minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have participated in the FRED Program with a funding success rate of 62% and 27% of them receiving more than one award. The FRED program is organized with participants attending a Career Development Workshop, participating in a mentored relationship to prepare a proposal, and a Mock Review Panel at the annual ASCB conference to review the proposal and provide the mentee comments before submission to a funding agency. The FRED-II program will continue with the mission of improving grant funding success and career development for junior faculty and will implement improved support pathways for FRED mentees who are not successful in their first proposal submission and will look to resubmit their proposal. It will continue with the successful implementation of a summer workshop to be held primarily near or at MSIs. In addition, in alignment with national imperatives in increasing diversity among faculty, the program will create a pre-FRED workshop designed to engage potential FRED mentees to develop an applicant pool for future FRED workshops. The FRED-II program will continue to support and develop the next generation of research scientists and leaders and broaden their participation in science.The FRED-II program will support junior faculty and postdoctoral scholars through a structured mentored relationship with a senior faculty member. The year-long program will include a summer career development workshop for all FRED mentees, monthly mentor-mentee meetings with in-person reciprocal visits to mentor-mentees campuses. FRED mentees will develop a proposal with support from their selected mentor and participate in a winter mock review panel hosted at the annual ASCB meeting. Meetings and reciprocal visits will continue until a proposal is submitted to a federal agency. FRED-II will also include continued participation and additional support for FRED mentees who are unsuccessful in securing funding on their first attempt. The FRED-II program will also include evaluative efforts to inform the leadership of the effectiveness of the program and areas where improvements are needed. Overall, the FRED-II program promotes the careers of underrepresented junior faculty and postdoctoral scholars at research institutions and MSIs through mentorship and grant success.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.