Research Enhancement at Dine' College

描述（由申请人提供）：Dine' College的RISE项目将增强该部落学院校园的研究环境，该学院为纳瓦霍民族服务。这些活动将包括教师，学生，家庭，社区和纳瓦霍专业人员，全面努力实现学院的学术和研究职能的更好整合，以及在更广泛的纳瓦霍和美洲原住民社区内更有效地应用这些职能。该学院的Dine'（纳瓦霍）教育理念将形成一个全面的过程的基础，在这个过程中，纳瓦霍学生概念化，计划，实施和验证他们在实现学业和职业目标方面的进展。学生将通过学术技能研讨会、教师、同侪导师改进的指导/建议、关键课程的补充教学促进以及作为实验室助理主动学习的机会来丰富学术知识。学生将通过访问他们的大学和实验室与纳瓦霍和其他生物医学科学家接触，并让他们作为演讲者访问我们的校园。将在生物化学、环境科学和公共卫生/流行病学领域进一步发展和在两个校区提供学生研究培训活动。这些活动将以学生为中心，重点关注当地感兴趣的话题。将为在校和校外的学生提供研究实习机会，包括为公共卫生/流行病学学生提供的四学分研究方法课程。教师将通过研讨会，会议，课程或研究经验酌情提高。将制定、实施和传播一个供教师与部落学院学生一起使用的指导增强模式。实验室研究领域将通过化学教学实验区的翻新创建。教师将与传统纳瓦霍医学从业人员合作，为纳瓦霍民族开发更好的健康研究方法和更好的社区参与模式。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The RISE project for Dine' College will enhance the research environment at this tribal college's campuses, which serve the Navajo Nation. The activities will encompass faculty, students, families, communities and Navajo professionals in a comprehensive effort to achieve a better integration of the academic and research functions of the college, and a more effective application of those functions within the wider Navajo and Native American community. The Dine' (Navajo) Educational Philosophy of the college will form the basis for a comprehensive process in which Navajo students conceptualize, plan, implement and validate their progress in achieving their academic and career goals. Students will be academically enriched through academic skills workshops, improved mentoring/advising by faculty, peer mentors, supplemental instruction facilitation in key courses, and opportunities for active learning as lab assistants. Students will be engaged with Navajo and other biomedical scientists through visits to their universities and labs, and having them visit our campus as speakers. Research training activities for students will be further developed and available on two campuses in areas of biochemistry, environmental science and public health/epidemiology. These activities will be student-centered and focus on topics of local interest. Research placements/ internships for students at on and off campus locations will be provided, including a four-credit research methods course for public health/epidemiology students. Faculty will be enhanced through workshops, conferences, courses, or research experiences as appropriate. A mentoring enhancement model for faculty to use with Tribal College students will be developed, implemented and disseminated. Laboratory research areas will be created through the renovation of a chemistry instructional laboratory area. Faculty will work with practitioners of traditional Navajo medicine to develop better approached to health research and better models of community participation for the Navajo Nation.