IRACDA Postdoctoral Program: Collaborative Opportunities for Research Educators

描述(由申请人提供)：我们提出了一个富有远见的博士后研究和学术生涯指导计划，将新博士后研究员的热情、我们现有教师的奉献精神和顶级学术环境结合在一起，创建一个整合的变革性实习生和领导力计划。这项名为“研究型教育工作者的合作机会”(CORE)的计划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、得克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校和包括圣爱德华大学和西南大学在内的两所为少数群体服务的本科生合作机构的学术卓越的基础上。我们的计划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，并通过在本科生水平上实施以研究为中心的学习的新范式，促进科学教育的变革。教育部分是以德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校建立的一个名为新生研究倡议的创新项目为蓝本的，该项目将强化培训和以研究为重点的新生辅导结合起来，将过渡纳入主题研究流。我们计划的四个主要基石包括：i)参与德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校由NIH支持的研究项目；ii)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；iii)将博士后研究员培训为研究教育者；以及iv)将新生水平的研究型培训转化为合作的本科院校。我们项目的一个持久影响是，博士后和本科生研究的动态融合，假设在本科生水平上培养研究密集型教育将增加招收和留住理科代表不足的学生。第一年将招聘三名博士后研究员，第二年和第三年每年再招聘四名博士后研究员，每个博士后任期为三年(以及由研究导师支持的可选的四年)。我们的核心计划将提供其他专业发展活动，包括核心新兵训练营、学术之旅研讨会、大师级研讨会、负责任的研究行为培训、实验室特定安全实践的开发、促进网络机会的春季研讨会、博士后为自己的本科生研究项目获得支持的内部助学金竞赛、讲座录像会议以及一系列实验室管理。拟议的核心项目设定了50%的少数族裔参与和50%女性参与的目标，合格的申请者是那些完成了化学、生物化学、分子生物学或密切相关领域的博士学位，并对学术职业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.