UT Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Environmental Health Sciences

德克萨斯大学暑期本科生环境健康科学研究体会 项目摘要 这项研究和教育干预工作建议招募10个有才华和多样化的代表性不足的人。 来自美国各地的本科生到田纳西大学(UT)校园参加身临其境的十年- 一周暑期生物医学科学研究经验。在两个中心之间独特的伙伴关系中 环境生物技术、机械、航空航天和生物医学工程系，以及 本科生研究办公室，我们建议为代表不足的人实施研究挑战 以“健康、科学和环境”为总主题的本科生。为了这一努力，我们 已获得学术学位(11个部门的医学博士、博士和/或DVM证书)和 在文化上(非洲裔美国人、西班牙裔和拉丁裔、阿巴拉契亚农村人、女性、第一代)不同群体 20名教师模范，60%由NIH资助，提供指导和严格的动手研究 对我们的学生进行培训，集中目标是建立自我效能感和加强对他们的坚持 攻读生物医学科学的高级学位。作为他们研究责任的补充， 学生还将参加关于实验设计、伦理学、统计学的研讨会和课堂教学 分析、实验室管理、创业和科学交流，以确保强大的学术地位 和职业发展指标在科学、技术、工程、数学和 医学(STEMM)学科。学生研究将在校园范围内和公共开放中达到顶峰 将在德克萨斯大学所有内外暑期本科生之间联合举行海报会议 研究项目。我们已经制定了一项强有力的招聘计划，以吸引我们想要的学生客户 历史上的黑人、西班牙裔服务的大学和其他规模较小的非研究密集型文科大学，提供 教学很好，但很少涉及独立的实验室调查。此外，还制定了评估计划。 为调查近期和长期目标实现情况，已召集了一个咨询委员会，以 将实施独立的项目监督和咨询，并实施传播计划，以促进地方和 通过我们的本科生参与者和他们的研究奖学金在全国范围内分发我们的研究成果 在我们的暑期K-12外展中，教师导师和使用我们的本科生作为科学发言人 活动。总的来说，这一外联和干预特派团将加强留住任职人数偏低的人员。 在STEMM纪律中的少数群体，并有助于弥合种族、族裔和性别差距固有的差距 美国生物医学高等教育和劳动力领域。

UT Summer Undergraduate Research Experiences in the Environmental Health Sciences Project Summary This research and educational intervention effort proposes to recruit ten talented and diverse underrepresented undergraduate students from across the U.S. to the University of Tennessee (UT) campus for immersive ten- week summer research experiences in the biomedical sciences. In a unique partnership between the Center for Environmental Biotechnology, the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering, and the Office of Undergraduate Research, we are proposing to implement research challenges for underrepresented undergraduate students under the general theme of ‘health, science, and the environment’. For this effort, we have enlisted an academically (MD, Ph.D., and/or DVM credentials across 11 departmental affiliations) and culturally (African-American, Hispanic and Latino, rural Appalachian, female, first-generation) diverse group of 20 faculty role models, 60% with a lineage of NIH funding, to provide mentorship and rigorous hands-on research training to our students with a focused goal of building self-efficacy and strengthening persistence toward their pursuit of an advanced degree in the biomedical sciences. Complementary to their research responsibilities, students will also engage in workshops and classroom instruction on experimental design, ethics, statistical analysis, laboratory management, entrepreneurship, and science communication to ensure strong scholarship and career development metrics are upheld across the science, technology, engineering, mathematical, and medical science (STEMM) disciplines. Student research will culminate in a campus-wide and publicly open poster session that will be jointly held among all of UT’s various internal and external summer undergraduate research programs. A robust recruitment plan has been developed to capture our desired student clientele from historically black, Hispanic-serving, and other smaller non-research intensive liberal arts colleges that provide excellent instruction but little in the way of independent laboratory inquiry. As well, an evaluation plan is in place for surveying immediate and long-term goal attainments, an Advisory Committee has been convened for independent project oversight and counsel, and a dissemination plan will be implemented to promote local and national distribution of our findings through research scholarship by our undergraduate participants and their faculty mentors and use of our undergraduates as science spokespersons within our summer K-12 outreach activities. Collectively, this outreach and intervention mission will enhance the retention of underrepresented minorities in the STEMM disciplines and serve to bridge the racial, ethnic, and gender disparity gaps inherent to the U.S. biomedical higher education and workforce fields.