Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education (SPIRE)

项目总结/摘要 SPIRE（Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education）是一个博士后研究和职业发展项目， 发展培训计划建立了一个伙伴关系之间的伙伴关系/查佩尔山和四个伙伴机构， 北卡罗来纳州，每个学校都有一个历史使命，教育来自不同背景的学生 在生物医学研究企业中代表性不足。通过这种合作关系，SPIRE计划 准备学者的研究和教学技能，以激励学生从代表性不足的群体， 追求科学事业。目前的提案保留了许多成功的组件， SPIRE的17年的历史，并增加了几个创新，使合作机构和学者的利益 为学术生涯做准备。纵观其历史，SPIRE学者接受了研究培训- 以学生为中心的科学教育方法。目前的建议扩大了这些 通过为学者提供基于课堂的本科生研究的正式培训， 经验（治愈）。此外，为了增加我们合作机构的学生人数， 谁可以受益于一对一的研究互动，并提供额外的指导经验， 学者，我们建议增加我们的合作伙伴，可以利用本科生的数量 非常有效的SPIRE夏季研究计划，在当前的赠款周期中试行。为了 扩大接触伙伴机构的研究学科，并促进潜在的合作，我们 我建议推出一个旅游研究研讨会，这将发生在我们的合作伙伴之一，每年 机构职能体系由于SPIRE计划提高了合作机构的科学教育效率， 通过上述举措，我们还将确保学者获得高质量的培训 在剑桥/查佩尔山的研究实验室里， 培训记录继续显示他们致力于指导。通过为学者提供 在研究，教学和专业发展的尖端培训，SPIRE计划致力于 继续培养获得学术地位的学者，继续推动科学发展 教育

Project Summary/Abstract SPIRE (Seeding Postdoctoral Innovators in Research and Education) is a postdoctoral research and career development training program built as a partnership between UNC/Chapel Hill and four partner institutions in North Carolina, each of which has an historical mission to educate students from backgrounds underrepresented in the biomedical research enterprise. Through this partnership, the SPIRE program prepares scholars with the research and teaching skills to inspire students from underrepresented groups to pursue science careers. The current proposal maintains many successful components introduced over SPIRE’s 17-year history and adds several innovations to benefit the partner institutions and the scholars‘ preparation for academic careers. Throughout its history, SPIRE scholars have received training in research- based, student-centered approaches in science education. The current proposal expands upon these approaches by providing scholars with formalized training in Classroom-based Undergraduate Research Experiences (CUREs). Moreover, in order to increase the number of students from our partner institutions who can benefit from one-on-one research interactions and to provide additional mentoring experience for the scholars, we propose to increase the number of undergraduates from our partners that can take advantage of the very effective SPIRE Summer Research Program, piloted during the current grant cycle. In order to broaden exposure to research disciplines at partner institutions and promote potential collaborations, we propose to launch a Traveling Research Symposium, which will take place each year at one of our partner institutions. As the SPIRE program enhances the effectiveness of science education at its partner institutions through the initiatives described above, we will also insure that the scholars obtain high quality training within research laboratories at UNC/Chapel Hill by matching scholars with productive scientists whose training records continue to reveal their commitment to mentorship. Taken together, by providing scholars with cutting-edge training in research, teaching and professional development, the SPIRE program strives to continue its record of training scholars who attain academic positions and continue to advance science education.