Miami-Dade College - University of Miami Bridge Program

描述（由申请人提供）：在这份申请中，我们要求继续支持迈阿密大学（UM）和迈阿密戴德学院（MDC）之间富有成效的合作伙伴关系。我们的课程侧重于学生发展、教师发展和课程发展。我们将保留在前三次桥式拨款基础上改进的项目要素。我们将继续：积极招募迈阿密-戴德县的高中生；开设专题课程和工作坊，提高桥生的学术竞争力；为MDC学生提供时薪，让他们在澳大实验室与导师一起做研究；派学生参加全国性的科学会议；通过特别课程/研讨会为学生的研究做准备；让父母对科学研究表示感谢；并通过支持研究和创新教学（奖学金，小额赠款和旅行基金）来振兴MDC教师。我们提出了一些新的活动，以解决我们吸引学生攻读博士学位和从事研究工作的总体目标。其中最具创新性的是一个新的以探究为基础，为期一年的生物学入门实验室，让学生在大学生涯的早期就接触到研究。在澳大教授、研究生和本科生同行领导的指导下，学生团队将在一年中提出假设并进行实验，以调查四(4)个一般主题。我们将帮助过渡到UM的Bridge学生找到校外暑期研究经验，我们将为他们提供GRE准备课程（由我们的一个补充项目资助）。教师研究导师将提供一个新的指导研讨会，我们将开发一个导师手册。MDC教师将参与生物学入门实验室，生物信息学研讨会，以及跨学科的开发，定量模块的入门课程。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): In this application we request continuing support for a productive partnership between the University of Miami (UM) and Miami-Dade College (MDC). Our program focuses on student development, faculty development, and curriculum development. We will retain program elements that we have refined over our prior three Bridge grants. We will continue to: actively recruit high school students in Miami-Dade County; offer special courses and workshops to increase the academic competitiveness of bridge students; provide hourly wages for MDC students doing research with faculty mentors in labs at UM; send students to national scientific meetings; prepare students for research through special courses/seminars; give parents an appreciation for scientific research; and rejuvenate MDC faculty by support for research and innovative teaching (fellowships, mini-grants, and travel funds). We propose several new activities to address our overarching goal of attracting students to Ph.D. programs and research careers. The most innovative of these is a new inquiry-based, one-year Introductory Biology laboratory to expose students to research early in their college careers. Student teams, guided by a UM professor, graduate student, and undergraduate peer leader will generate hypotheses and conduct experiments to investigate four (4) general themes over the year. We will assist Bridge students who have transitioned to UM to find placements in extramural summer research experiences, and we will provide them with a GRE preparation course (funded by one of our complementary programs). Faculty research mentors will be provided a new mentoring workshop, and we will develop a mentor's handbook. MDC faculty will participate in the Introductory Biology laboratory, in bioinformatics workshops, and in the development of interdisciplinary, quantitative modules for introductory courses.