MCB

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• MCBs Role in Broadening Participation
• BIO Advisory Committee
• November 18, 2004

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Broadening Participation

• Must be Integral to everything we do.
• Recruiting rotators
• Recruiting panelists
• Selecting reviewers
• Mentoring
• Outreach

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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.

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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

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Examples of Broadening Participation through
CAREER Awards

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