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HSTA TEAMS for Community Health: Teaching Educators and Adolescents Mentoring and Science (TEAMS) to Improve Community Health

Award Number: R25GM146285
ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES
OPDIV: NIH
AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY
AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2023
PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2028

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HSTA TEAMS for Community Health: Teaching Educators and Adolescents Mentoring and Science (TEAMS) to Improve Community Health - For 28 years the Health Sciences and Technology Academy (HSTA) of the West Virginia University (WVU) Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center with the help of the National Institute of Health (NIH) Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA), has implemented a one-of-a-kind mentoring program designed to assist WV high-school students to enter and succeed in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics and Medicine (STEM+M) based undergraduate and graduate degree programs. HSTA submits this proposal with the novel approach of using a team-based mentoring structure to facilitate the development and execution of Community Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and Citizen Science (CI) projects, to be carried out by HSTA students. HSTA marshals and links the efforts of an impressive network of mentors across educational levels to support 160 junior students annually (800 over a five-year period) through HSTA TEAMS. The innovation of HSTA TEAMS is in the combined use of the flexible structure of HSTA and the long arc of mentorship linkages, connecting college to community through high school, and now middle school students, in over half of WV counties across the state. It is the flexible structure of HSTA that allows the HSTA BioMed Summer Institute and HSTA community-based after-school club curriculum to respond to what is happening on the ground for HSTA families and communities, as well as with what the research community is observing and investigating. The Biomedical Summer Institute at WVU for teachers, mentors, and students directed by HSTA leadership and staff in collaboration with university faculty sets the foundation for the HSTA academic year community-based after school clubs during which specially trained HSTA teachers mentor students into research. Through the after-school club curriculum HSTA students will use validated resources, supported by HSTA TEAMS of mentors, to design STEM+M educational interventions or experiments with middle school students. The results of the STEM+M community-based research projects will be disseminated through regional and state HSTA research symposia, as well as through national conferences and publications.


Issue Date FY	Funding FY	Legal Entity Name	Legal Entity Address	Legal Entity City	Legal Entity State	Legal Entity Zip Code	Legal Entity COUNTY	Legal Entity COUNTRY	Assistance Listing	Award Code	Budget Year	Action Date	Action Type	Action Amount

Issue Date FY: 2025 ( Subtotal = $260,691 )
2025	2025	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	886 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD	MORGANTOWN	WV	26505	MONONGALIA	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	3	8/28/2025	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$260,691
														Subtotal = $260,691

Issue Date FY: 2024 ( Subtotal = $265,414 )
2024	2024	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	886 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD	MORGANTOWN	WV	26505	MONONGALIA	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	2	8/1/2024	NON-COMPETING CONTINUATION	$265,414
														Subtotal = $265,414

Issue Date FY: 2023 ( Subtotal = $270,000 )
2023	2023	WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY RESEARCH CORPORATION	886 CHESTNUT RIDGE ROAD	MORGANTOWN	WV	26505	MONONGALIA	USA	Biomedical Research and Research Training	000	1	8/24/2023	NEW	$270,000
														Subtotal = $270,000

Grand Total All Awards = $796,105

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HSTA TEAMS for Community Health: Teaching Educators and Adolescents Mentoring and Science (TEAMS) to Improve Community Health

Award Number: R25GM146285

ORGANIZATION: NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES

OPDIV: NIH

AWARD CLASS: DISCRETIONARY

AWARD ACTIVITY TYPE: SCIENTIFIC/HEALTH RESEARCH (INCLUDES SURVEYS)

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE START DATE: 09/01/2023

PERIOD OF PERFORMANCE END DATE: 07/31/2028

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