Biomedical Learning and Student Training (BLaST) Program

拟议的BUILD资助的生物医学学习和学生培训（BLast）计划将提高 本科生生物医学研究培训和功效的能力，都从事学生从 多样化的背景和准备学生的生物医学研究事业。通过不同的和 创新的方法，我们寻求通过充分整合研究和教学来改变高等教育。 向综合研究和教学文化的转变将通过学生，教师和 解决影响参与的机构、社会和个人因素的机构发展， 新兴科学家的坚持。BLaST将让学生参与主动学习，早期研究 经验和学习社区，使人们对知识和研究人员的地位产生信心， 并激励坚持不懈。UAF致力于本科研究培训和基础设施建设 美国国立卫生研究院的赠款大大提高了我们的生物医学研究能力。下一步是 整合这些要素，提高本科生生物医学研究培训的能力。我们专注于 招募农村学生，并将通过与llisagvik合作，在阿拉斯加9个农村校区实施BLaST 部落学院，阿拉斯加东南大学和农村校园。阿拉斯加作为美国最具乡村特色的州， 极端的教育和经济差距，是变革性方法的理想测试案例， 鼓励和支持农村学生。追求三个具体目标将有助于实现目标： 具体目标1：在整个本科课程中强调主动和体验式学习， 培养学生参与的能力，而不是仅仅为学生服务的能力。 具体目标2：在高等教育企业中充分整合教学和研究， 学生在整个本科学习期间从事生物医学研究。 具体目标3：将学生嵌入生物医学学习社区，采取全面的方法来培养学生 通过强调文化包容性和全面的咨询以及 批判性思维和解决问题的能力，这是科学训练的标志 相关性（参见说明）： 通过整合研究和教学在费尔班克斯校园和农村机构的整合 和他们的学生进入生物医学研究企业在阿拉斯加，拟议的BLastprogram将 为所有对生物医学感兴趣的学生提供更好的主动和体验式学习机会和成果 研究职业，包括那些代表性不足的群体。

The proposed BUILD-funded Biomedical Learning and Student Training (BLaST) program will enhance capacity for undergraduate biomedical research training and efficacy for both engaging students from diverse backgrounds and preparing students for biomedical research careers. Through distinct and innovative approaches we seek to transform higher education by fully integrating research and teaching. Transformation to a culture of integrated research and teaching will occur through student, faculty, and institutional development that address institutional, social, and individual factors influencing engagement and persistence of emerging scientists. BLaST will engage students in active learning, early research experiences, and learning communities that engender confidence in knowledge and status as researchers, and motivate persistence. UAF is committed to undergraduate research training and infrastructure-building grants from the NIH have dramatically increased our biomedical research capacity. The next step is to integrate these elements and enhance capacity for undergraduate biomedical research training. We focus on recruiting rural students and will implement BLaST at 9 rural Alaskan campuses by partnering with llisagvik Tribal College, University of Alaska Southeast, and rural campuses. Alaska, as the most rural state and one with extreme educational and economic disparities, is the ideal test case for transformative approaches to engage and support rural students. Pursuit of 3 specific aims will enable achievement of goals: Specific Aim 1: Emphasize active and experiential learning throughout undergraduate curricula, thereby building capacity to engage students, rather than capacity simply to serve students. Specific Aim 2: Fully integrate teaching and research in the higher education enterprise, thereby immersing students in biomedical research throughout their undergraduate study. Specific Aim 3: Embed students in a biomedical learning community that takes a holistic approach to student development by emphasizing cultural inclusiveness and comprehensive advising as well as training in critical-thinking and problem-solving skills, which are hallmarks of scientific training RELEVANCE (See instructions): Through integration of research and teaching at the Fairbanks campus and integration of rural institutions and their students into the biomedical research enterprise in Alaska, the proposed BLaST program will improve active and experiential learning opportunities and outcomes for all students interested in biomedical research careers, including those from underrepresented groups.