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项目，在研究和学术生涯指导方面，将新博士后研究员的热情，我们现有教职员工的奉献精神和顶级学术环境结合起来，创造一个综合的变革培训和领导力项目。这个名为“研究教育工作者的合作机会”（CORE）的项目将建立在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校化学与生物化学系的新兴研究优势和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的学术卓越，以及两所少数民族本科合作机构，包括圣爱德华大学和西南大学。我们的项目将培养下一代未来的科学领袖，以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，促进科学教育的变革。教育部分以德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校建立的一项名为“新生研究计划”的创新项目为蓝本，该项目将对新生进行强化培训和以研究为重点的指导，并将其整合到主题研究流中。我们项目的四个主要基石包括：1)博士后参与美国国立卫生研究院支持的德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的研究项目；2)发展德克萨斯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；3)培养博士后作为研究教育者；4)将大一新生的研究导向培训转化为合作本科院校。我们项目的一个持久影响是博士后和本科研究的动态合并，其假设是在本科阶段培养研究密集型教育将加强对科学领域代表性不足的学生的招聘和保留。第一年招收3名博士后，第二年和第三年各招收4名博士后，每个博士后任期为3年（可选的4年由研究导师支持）。我们的核心项目将提供其他专业发展活动，包括核心训练营，学术之旅研讨会，资助研讨会，负责任的研究行为培训，实验室特定安全实践的发展，促进交流机会的春季研讨会，博士后内部资助竞赛，以获得他们自己的本科研究项目的支持，讲座录像会议，以及一系列实验室管理。为拟议的CORE项目设定了50%的少数民族参与目标，以及50%的女性参与目标，合格的申请人是那些完成了化学、生物化学、分子生物学或密切相关领域的博士学位，并对学术生涯表现出强烈兴趣的人。

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.