MCB’s Role in Broadening Participation

BIO Advisory Committee

November 18, 2004

Broadening Participation

Must be Integral to everything we do.

Recruiting rotators Recruiting panelists Selecting reviewers Mentoring Outreach

Broadening Participation through Research Grants

Emphasis on Criterion 2 for all proposals

CAREER Awards for Integration of Research and Education

Supplements to research grants: REU, ROA, RET, for adding graduate students and post-docs from underrepresented groups.

Examples of Broadening Participation through CAREER Awards

Margaret Werner-Washburne, Presidential Young Investigator, Univ. of New Mexico

Marilyn Gunner-Presidential Faculty Fellow, City College of CUNY

Jill Bargonetti-Hunter College of CUNY, PECASE Awardee

Squire Booker-Penn State, PECASE Awardee

Derek Brazill-City College of CUNY

Examples of Broadening Participation through CAREER Awards

Kurt Lamour, University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture, CAREER: A Reverse Genetic Tool for Functional Genomics

  Research Objective: To develop a reverse genetic, functional genomics tool for

Phytophthora to isolate gene-specific mutants.

Education-Outreach Goals: Develop an educational program based on the Phytophthora sojae reverse genetics tool.

Activities include: A summer workshop hosted jointly by the University of Tennessee and Knoxville College serving undergraduates, graduate students and faculty from HBCUs.

 

Examples of Broadening Participation through CAREER Awards

Gina McDonald, James Madison University, CAREER: A Difference Infrared Spectroscopic Study of a Nucleotide Binding Protein.

Became a PECASE Award in 1999

Research Objective: Structure-function studies of RecA, a protein from E.coli involved in DNA repair and recombination, using biochemical and biophysical techniques including Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy.

Education-Outreach Goals: Establish a new biochemical laboratory and involve undergraduates and current and future high school teachers in

Integrated Research and Education activities expanded to include deaf or hard-of hearing teachers, undergraduates and high school students.