University of Pennsylvania Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching

描述（由申请人提供）：我们要求继续支持宾夕法尼亚大学的博士后研究和教学机会（PENN-PORT）计划，该计划提供了一个在宾夕法尼亚大学的极好的博士后研究经验，以及我们在医学院、兽医医学院和牙科医学院的一位杰出的研究者。艺术与科学学院或费城儿童医院，并为博士后提供发展教学技能的机会。教学指导包括宾夕法尼亚大学教育研究生院一学期的正式教学方法课程，以及在少数民族服务合作机构的指导教学经验，该合作机构在以下其中一所进行：林肯大学，美国最古老的历史悠久的黑人大学，位于卡姆登的罗格斯大学校园和特拉华县社区学院。参与院校的课堂教学由最有经验的教师监督。该计划的一个主要目标是鼓励本科生，特别是那些来自代表性不足群体的本科生，在合作机构攻读科学专业，生物医学科学研究生教育，并从事生物医学科学事业。PENN-PORT项目的另一个目标是增加有充分准备的生物医学课堂教育工作者，他们也是非常合格的研究科学家。在前一个（也是第一个）资助期间，该项目一半以上的被任命者都是代表性不足的少数民族。因此，我们也在解决增加少数民族进入学术生涯的人数的问题。我们的第三个目标是加强合作院校的研究型教学，促进宾大教师与合作少数民族院校教师之间的研究和教学合作。在这一资助期内，我们通过提供夏季工资来提高三名少数族裔教师的研究能力，让他们在宾夕法尼亚大学的一个实验室度过夏季。该项目已由集成学习创新公司进行了外部评估，该公司确定了我们将在下一个资助期解决的挑战。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We are requesting continued support for the University of Pennsylvania's Postdoctoral Opportunities in Research and Teaching (PENN-PORT) Program, which provides a combination of a superb mentored postdoctoral research experience at the University of Pennsylvania with one of our distinguished investigators in the Schools of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine and Dental Medicine, the College of Arts and Science or the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and an opportunity for postdoctoral appointees to develop teaching skills. Instruction in teaching consists of a formal semester long course in pedagogical methods from the Graduate School of Education at PENN as well as a mentored teaching experience at a minority serving partner institution, which takes place at one of the following: Lincoln University, the nation's oldest historically Black university, the Rutger University campus at Camden, and Delaware County Community College. The classroom teaching at the participating institutions is supervised by their most experienced teaching faculty. A major objective of the program is to encourage undergraduate students, particularly those from under-represented groups, at partner institutions to pursue a major in the sciences, graduate education in the biomedical sciences, and a biomedical scientific career. A further objective of the PENN-PORT Program is to increase the pool of well-prepared biomedical classroom educators who are also extremely well qualified research scientists. During the previous (and first) funding period more than half of the appointees to this program have been under-represented minorities. Thus we are also addressing the need to increase the number of minorities entering academic careers. Our third objective is to enhance research-oriented teaching at partner institutions and foster collaboration in research and teaching between the faculty at PENN and that of partner minority- serving institutions. In this funding period we have enhanced the research capacity of three minority faculty by providing a summer salary to spend the summer in a laboratory at PENN. The program has been externally evaluated by Integrated Learning Innovations Inc., who has identified challenges that we will address in the next funding period.