PHASE II EARDA, FRESP

Medgar Evers College致力于加强其研究基础设施，并为代表性不足的少数民族和女性教师和学生提供机会，以提高研究的参与度。第一阶段EARDA- FRESP提供机构PI，Karan博士，一个参加NIH为期十周的暑期培训计划的机会，以及实施她的第一阶段计划的资金。她在科学，健康和技术学院建立了健康科学研究援助中心（HSRAC），并通过HSRAC实施了她为第一阶段EARDA计划的所有活动。在这一阶段，教师参与建议书的写作得到了加强，教师和学生获得的研究奖项的数量有所增加。第二阶段EARDA-FRESP的一个主要目标是进一步帮助教师发展研究能力，并产生有竞争力的赠款提案，以获得更大的联邦资助机构的研究资金，即，NIH，NSF，NASA，DOD，et.艾尔·卡兰医生将继续担任私家侦探在第二阶段EARDA-FRESP中，并继承了一些写作技巧，即，赠款信息会议、赠款建议书编写讲习班、网页制作讲习班和在线赠款信息搜索。HSRAC将继续其试点项目奖的领域进行研讨会的电子提交赠款建议的国家科学基金会其他计划的活动包括改进HSRAC网页，重组MEC IRB，为获得研究赠款的教师和学生举办表彰活动，参加2000年秋季的地区NIH/OPRR研讨会，协助教师和学生扩大与外部机构的研究合作，并在科学，健康和技术学院建立一个卓越的教师和学生研究中心。

Medgar Evers College is committed to strengthen its research infrastructure and provide underrepresented minority and women faculty and students an opportunity to enhance participation in research. Phase I EARDA- FRESP provided the Institutional P.I., Dr. Karan, an opportunity to participate in the ten week summer training program at NIH and the funds to implement her Phase I plan. She established the Health Science Research Assistance Center (HSRAC) IN THE School of Science, Health and Technology, and through HSRAC has implemented all the activities she had planned for Phase I EARDA. During this phase, faculty participation in proposal writing has been enhanced, and the number of research awards received by faculty and student has increased. A major goal of Phase II EARDA-FRESP is to further assist faculty develop research capability and generate competitive grant proposals to obtain research funds from larger federal funding agencies, i.e., NIH, NSF, NASA, DOD, et. Al. Dr. Karan will continue as P.I. in Phase II EARDA-FRESP and carries over some writing skills, i.e., grant information sessions, grant proposal writing workshops, workshops for Web page creation and on-line grant information searches. HSRAC will continue its Pilot Project Awards in the areas of conduct workshops on electronic submission of grant proposals to NSF (FastLane) jointly with the MEC Other planned activities include improvement of the HSRAC Web page, reorganization of MEC IRB, faculty and student recognition events honoring those who received research grants, participation in a regional NIH/OPRR Seminar in fall 2000, assisting faculty and students expand research collaboration with outside institutions and establishing a Center of Excellence in Faculty and Students Research in the School of Science, Health and Technology.