Replied: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:51:20 -0400
Replied: "Raquell M. Holmes" <rmholmes@bu.edu>
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Date: Thu, 08 Apr 1999 13:15:15 -0400
To: eotug@ncsa.uiuc.edu
From: "Raquell M. Holmes" <rmholmes@bu.edu>
Subject: Strategic Plan responses
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To Undergraduate PI's.

We still need responses to the strategic planning document sent to PI's on
March 11.

Please look at the Education-Undergraduate section of "EOT-PACI strategic
planning March 11". This was sent by Scott on March 11 and is present on the
Intranet.

I have attached an example of what would be "best case scenario" response. This
will also be placed on the intranet. I will send out the intranet location
later.

For each stated goal (there are three), please note the specific activities and
partners that you are working with or will work with to achieve these
goals. ie.
Rice University, faculty of Univ of Arkansas...workshops, web development...

We would like to be able to answer the following questions from your responses:

What has been developed?
Where information, materials are accessible?
What are your mechanisms of dissemination?
Who are the specific collaborators or participants in your project?
What are the number of faculty, students or organizations that have been
involved as audience or developers?


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To Undergraduate PI's.<br>
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We still need responses to the strategic planning document sent to PI's
on March 11.<br>
<br>
Please look at the Education-Undergraduate section of &quot;EOT-PACI
strategic planning March 11&quot;. This was sent by Scott on March 11 and
is present on the Intranet.<br>
<br>
I have attached an example of what would be &quot;best case
scenario&quot; response. This will also be placed on the intranet. I will
send out the intranet location later.<br>
<br>
For each stated goal (there are three), please note the specific
activities and partners that you are working with or <u>will</u> work
with to achieve these goals. ie. Rice University, faculty of Univ of
Arkansas...workshops, web development...<br>
<br>
We would like to be able to answer the following questions from your
responses:<br>
<br>
What has been developed?<br>
Where information, materials are accessible?<br>
What are your mechanisms of dissemination?<br>
Who are the specific collaborators or participants in your project?<br>
What are the number of faculty, students or organizations that have been
involved as audience or developers?<br>
<br>
<br>
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Education - Undergraduate

The primary audience for the Undergraduate Team is undergraduate faculty with a focus on addressing university curriculum, and undergraduate students working with PACI teams.  This should include faculty and students at community colleges and four-year institutions.  We recommend that pre-service and natural science teachers be the focus of the K-12 team and not the undergraduate team.

Create broad national impact in education, government, science, business and society through systemic, sustainable, scalable programs.

To attain the goal of broad national impact, the Undergraduate Team should identify University undergraduate programs and associations (such as computational science and engineering programs, Educause, NAFEO, and NSF funded DUE programs) with which to collaborate through the integration of PACI technologies. The team should work with the New Communities Team to reach community colleges and new faculty, especially in fields under-represented in HPC.  The team should also work with the women/minorities team to ensure participation by and outreach to under-represented people and minority serving institutions.  

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National Impact/collaboration with academic programs:
Boston University EOT is collaborating with the NSF IGERT sponsored Bioinformatics program at Boston University. The BU Bioinformatics program is the first to offer graduate degrees in Bioinformatics. This unique standing places the Bioinformatics program in the national spotlight. The EOT effort at BU is taking advantage of this spotlight to expose the academic community to PACI tools.

External Collaboration: 1 program, 1 faculty

Proposed collaborations: 
We are looking into collaborating with BioQuest Consortium. This organization has a long history of developing inquiry based curricula for undergraduate courses using modeling and simulation tools.  BioQuest also has well established mechanisms of dissemination via the Academic Press and summer workshops for faculty.

Future collaborations: 1 

Integration of technology:
A faculty member of BU Bioinformatics is making use of BiologyWorkbench developed by the Computational Biology Applications team  and has participated in a summer workshop held at NCSA and to develop Biology Workbench for an undergraduate audience. This collaborative effort is being carried out with NCSA Education Division, Eric Jakobsson of the Computational Biology AT team. This faculty member uses BiologyWorkbench in 2 bioinformatics courses one of which includes undergraduate students. The courses are accessible via http://bioinformatics.bu.edu  Additional curricula will be developed during the summer and made accessble via alliance.bu.edu

Internal collaborations: technical team-1, partners-1 
Faculty involvement:1
Courses: 2
Students=still being determined


Reach faculty in new academic communities: 
Boston University will contribute to the web presence of the undergraduate efforts in this area by pointing from our http://alliance.bu.edu web site to workshops, curricula and web-sites at EdCenter and IATH who are working with "non-traditional" users.

Objective: To support new communities/disciplines using HPC resources by disseminating via the web examples of uses.
Boston University will hire a web-site coordinator to ensure and maintain links to partner sites and curriculum.

Outreach to under-represented groups and minority serving institutions:
See Increase the participation of under-represented groups including persons with disabilities in PACI efforts and beyond.


Demonstrate the use of PACI technologies, resources and methodologies across multiple, diverse audiences by leveraging EOT and AT/ET/PACS thrust/team efforts.

The Team should create repositories of exemplars of best practices, including those that use materials from AT and ET teams, which have been tried and proven in undergraduate education.  This effort should be in conjunction with the other EOT teams that are working on repositories including K-12, women/minorities, learning technologies, etc.

The Team should host workshops on technology in undergraduate education, and include interdisciplinary efforts such as are found in AT/ET thrusts/teams.

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Create Repositories: 
Boston University through its role in EOT management will identify overlaps in repository efforts and contribute curricula, web links or other materials developed from the efforts outlined above. This is dependent upon the coordination of materials within a repository created and managed by an undergraduate partner

Workshops: 
Boston University will help to invite appropriate faculty to workshops on technology for undergraduates hosted by partners.

Boston University will host one to two Bioinformatics workshops in conjunction with the Bioinformatics Program at Boston University and the Alliance PACS. At least one seminar dedicated to the use of Biology Workbench in undergraduate education will be presented.  Curricular materials developed for workshops will be made available via http://alliance.bu.edu

Suggested Metrics for workshops-presentations using PACI technology, # of attendants, # of curricula developed, # of submissions to repository.

Possible Interteam Collaborations:
* Working with Shodor to include Biology Workbench as a component of the Shodor's SCSI workshop.-This might make use of curricula developed by BU Bioinformatics faculty or collaborative efforts with Eric Jakobsson of the Compuational Biology AT team.
* Submission of Bioinformatics modules to repository


Increase the participation of under-represented groups including persons with disabilities in PACI efforts and beyond.

Continue this past year's REU program to place students in a variety of PACI projects.  Continue to involve under-represented students in the program.  The program should couple students supported by this program as well as other funding sources to share experiences and learning opportunities through involvement in the PACI program.  Identify with the help of the graduate and women/minority teams opportunities for mentoring of the undergraduate students.

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Involve under-represented students:
Boston University partner is working to develop a relationship with the HBCU Xavier University regarding the use of Biology Workbench and teaching Bioinformatics. By involving the faculty of this university in curriculum development and as a testbed for Biology Workbench development we will increase the number of students informed about and having made use of the PACI technologies.

Objective: To facilitate the use of Biology Workbench in new sites and to support the use computational tools within biology
Methods: Xavier faculty attending workshop on Biology workbench and Bioinformatics. MSI's and HBCU faculty will be invited to workshops described above.
Suggested Metrics: Faculty in attendance, faculty trials at home institutions, ongoing use of tool in classes. Number of under-represented students in those classes


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Raquell M. Holmes, Ph.D.

Program Manager, 
Education, Outreach and Training for the
Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (EOT-PACI)

Center for Computational Science
3 Cummington Street
Boston, MA 02215
phone:617-353-6266
fax:  617-353-6062
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