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; 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.

使更多的美国人能够获得科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）的本科和研究生学位，这对于提高美国创新能力很重要。 参加研究，因为本科生的研究可以改善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的教师对这一任务至关重要，但是在许多情况下，这些教师几乎没有得到与他们所教或继续研究的学生进行研究的支持，而博士课程通常未能培训毕业生来指导教师本科研究。 为了满足这一国家需求，美国数学研究所（AIM）和计算与实验研究所数学研究所（ICERM）将在2016年，2017年，2018年和2019年的研究中，为新的研究活动提供了一系列新的参与者，将在2016、2017、2017、1019的夏季进行一系列四个年度研究经验。经验研究数学科学中的开放问题，并使他们能够与本科机构的本科生进行研究。在每个REUF研讨会上，有四位高级数学家（领导者）在与本科生进行研究经验的经验将在各个领域提出问题，然后参与者和领导者将分为小组并解决问题；研讨会将以每个项目的小组演讲结束。大多数时间都将花在研究研究中，但还将在整个小组讨论有关的主题，例如（CO） - 首席研究人员的本科研究中的最佳实践，他们也每天都会与领导人见面。有机会继续在研讨会上开始这些项目，一些参与者将参与与研讨会的其他教师的长期研究合作。 REUF的招聘工作将针对本科学院和大学的教师，这些学院和大学为大部分人数不足的少数群体，残疾人或第一代大学生以及他们自己的代表性不足或残疾而言。 REUF项目将为教师参与者的学生提供更多，更好的本科研究经验，并更多地参与教师参与者的数学研究，从而扩大和多样化数学劳动力。