Collaborative: AIM & ICERM Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty Workshops

合作：AIM

• 批准号: 1620080
• 负责人: Ulrica Wilson
• 金额: $ 11.97万
• 依托单位: Brown University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2021-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620080&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; AIM; & ICERM; Research

Enabling more Americans to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is important to improving American innovation capabilities. Participating in research as undergraduates improves retention in STEM majors and encourages students to pursue graduate degrees. Faculty at colleges and universities that focus on undergraduate education are critical to this mission, yet in many cases such faculty receive little support to do research with the students they teach or continue their own research, and doctoral programs often fail to train their graduates to mentor undergraduate research. To address this national need, the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) will conduct a series of four annual Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF) workshops during the summers of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Each REUF workshop and ongoing activities will provide a new group of faculty participants at undergraduate institutions that have limited research support with a research experience investigating open questions in the mathematical sciences and equip them to engage in research with undergraduate students at their home institutions. At each REUF workshop four senior mathematicians (leaders) who have experience doing research with undergraduate students will present problems in a variety of areas, after which the participants and leaders will divide into groups and work on the problems; the workshop will conclude with group presentations of each project. Most of the time will be spent doing research, but there will also be whole group discussions about topics such as best practices in undergraduate research led by the (co)-principal investigators, who also meet daily with the leaders. There are opportunities to continue work on the projects started in the workshop, and some participants will become involved in long-term research collaborations with other faculty at the workshop. The recruitment efforts for REUF will target faculty at undergraduate colleges and universities that serve a large proportion of students who are underrepresented minorities, person with disabilities, or first generation college students, as well as faculty who are themselves underrepresented or have disabilities. The REUF project will lead to more and better undergraduate research experiences for the students of the faculty participants, and greater engagement in mathematical research by the faculty participants, thus expanding and diversifying the mathematical workforce.

让更多美国人获得科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的本科和研究生学位对于提高美国的创新能力非常重要。 本科生参与研究可以提高 STEM 专业的保留率，并鼓励学生攻读研究生学位。 专注于本科教育的学院和大学的教师对于这一使命至关重要，但在许多情况下，这些教师很少得到支持，无法与他们所教的学生一起进行研究或继续自己的研究，而且博士课程往往无法培训毕业生进行指导本科生研究。 为了满足这一国家需求，美国数学研究所 (AIM) 和数学计算与实验研究所 (ICERM) 将在 2016 年和 2017 年夏季举办一系列四期本科生研究经验 (REUF) 研讨会、2018 年和 2019 年。每个 REUF 研讨会和正在进行的活动将为本科院校的一组新的教职人员提供有限的研究支持，并调查研究经验提出数学科学方面的问题，并使他们能够与本国院校的本科生一起进行研究。在每次 REUF 研讨会上，四位具有与本科生一起研究经验的高级数学家（领导者）将提出各个领域的问题，之后参与者和领导者将分组并研究这些问题；讲习班将以每个项目的小组介绍结束。大部分时间将花在研究上，但也会有整个小组讨论主题，例如由（联合）首席研究员领导的本科生研究的最佳实践，他们也每天与领导者会面。有机会继续开展研讨会上启动的项目，一些参与者将参与与研讨会上其他教师的长期研究合作。 REUF 的招聘工作将针对本科院校的教职人员，这些学院和大学的教职人员中大部分是少数族裔、残疾人或第一代大学生，以及本身代表性不足或患有残疾的教员。 REUF项目将为教职人员的学生带来更多更好的本科生研究经验，并让教职人员更多地参与数学研究，从而扩大数学队伍并使其多样化。