IRACDA Postdoctoral Program: Collaborative Opportunities for Research Educators

描述（由申请人提供）：我们提出了一个有远见的博士后研究和学术生涯指导计划，该计划将新博士后研究员的热情，我们既定教师的奉献精神和顶级学术环境结合起来，以创建一个综合的变革性培训和领导计划。该计划“研究教育工作者的合作机会”（CORE）将建立在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校化学和生物化学系的新兴研究优势和UT-奥斯汀的学术卓越以及两个少数民族服务本科合作机构，包括圣爱德华大学和西南大学。我们的计划将培养下一代未来的科学领导者追求生物医学科学的学术生涯，并通过在本科阶段实施以研究为中心的学习新范式来促进科学教育的变革。教育部分是仿照在UT-奥斯汀建立的一个创新计划，称为新生研究计划，夫妇密集的培训和研究为重点的指导新生与综合过渡到专题研究流。我们项目的四大基石包括：i）博士后参与德州大学奥斯汀分校NIH支持的研究项目，ii）开发德州大学奥斯汀分校与当地两所本科院校之间的合作研究机会，iii）培训博士后研究员作为研究教育工作者，以及iv）将新生级别的研究型培训转化为合作本科院校。我们计划的持久影响是博士后和本科研究的动态融合，假设在本科阶段培养研究密集型教育将提高科学领域代表性不足的学生的招聘和保留。第一年将招募三名博士后研究员，第二年和第三年各招募四名博士后研究员，每个博士后任期三年（由研究导师支持可选四年）。我们的核心计划将提供其他专业发展活动，包括核心靴子营，学术研讨会之旅，grananecraft研讨会，在负责任的研究行为，实验室特定的安全实践的发展，春季研讨会，以促进网络机会，为博士后研究员获得支持自己的本科研究项目，讲座录像会议，以及实验室管理系列。一个50%的少数民族参与的目标，以及50%的女性参与，已经建立了拟议的核心方案和合格的申请人是那些谁已经完成了化学，生物化学，分子生物学博士学位，或密切相关的领域，并表示在学术生涯的浓厚兴趣。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We propose a visionary post-doctoral program in research and academic career mentoring that unites the enthusiasm of new post-doctoral fellows, the dedication of our established faculty, and a top academic environment to create an integrated transformative traineeship and leadership program. This program "Collaborative Opportunities for Research Educators" (CORE) will build on emerging research strengths of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of Texas at Austin and academic excellence at UT-Austin and two minority-serving undergraduate partner institutions, including St Edward's University and Southwestern University. Our program will train the next generation of future scientific leaders to pursue academic careers in biomedical science and also foster changes in science education by implementing a new paradigm for research-centric learning at the undergraduate level. The educational component is modeled on an innovative program established at UT-Austin termed the Freshman Research Initiative that couples intensive training and research-focused mentoring of freshmen with integrated transition into thematic research streams. The four major cornerstones of our program include: i) post-doctoral participation in NIH-supported research projects at UT-Austin, ii) development of collaborative research opportunities between UT-Austin and two local undergraduate institutions, iii) training of the post-doctoral fellows as research-educators, and iv) translation of research-oriented training at the freshmen level to the partner undergraduate institutions. A lasting impact of our program is the dynamic merging of post-doctoral and undergraduate research with the hypothesis that cultivating research-intensive education at the undergraduate level will enhance recruitment and retention of under-represented students in science. Three postdoctoral fellows will be recruited the first year and four more in each of the second and third years, with each postdoctoral term spanning three years (and an optional four year supported by the research mentor). Our CORE program will provide other professional development activities that include a CORE boot camp, a Journey to Academia workshop, a grantsmanship workshop, training in the responsible conduct of research, development of lab-specific safety practices, a spring symposium to facilitate networking opportunities, an internal grant competition for the postdoctoral fellows to gain support for their own undergraduate research projects, a lecture videotaping session, and a series on lab management. A target of 50% minority participation, as well as 50% female participation, has been established for the proposed CORE program and qualified applicants are those who have completed a doctorate in chemistry, biochemistry, molecular biology, or a closely related field and express a strong interest in academic careers.