Collaborative proposal: Faculty and Undergraduate Research Student Teams (FURST)

合作提案：教师和本科生研究生团队（FURST）

• 批准号: 1620196
• 负责人: Erwin Suazo
• 金额: $ 2.2万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620196&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; proposal; Faculty; Undergraduate; Research

The Faculty and Undergraduate Research Student Teams (FURST) program brings together small research groups comprised of undergraduate students and faculty from primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI) in order to provide them with a year-long research experience. The program also provides a one month long intensive summer immersion for its participants at an established summer REU site at Fresno State. FURST students get an opportunity to participate in professional workshops, presentations and academic discussions along with the REU students, whereas FURST faculty can take advantage of an on-site, in-person research collaboration with their peers within the FURST program. The program's main goal is to foster both student and faculty research at PUIs, with the specific goal of producing student and faculty authored publications, as well as presentations. The program is designed to be inclusive and accessible to teams from institutions with varying research focus and support, in order to mitigate cultural changes at institutions which may not consider research a quintessential component of higher education.FURST students will be working on open problems in mathematics under the guidance of their faculty mentors. Research topics include community detection problems in networks, expanding the framework and analysis of the cop and robber game, the use of coarse Ricci curvature in data analysis and interpolation problems, the study and solution of the non-linear Riccati-Ermakov equation, as well as other non-linear dispersive partial differential equations. Strengthening their background in the selected research topic through readings and lecture at their home institutions will prepare FURST students to engage in research at the same speed as the REU students during the immersion phase. Students will be expected to submit the end product of their research for publication in a peer reviewed journal. FURST faculty will engage in solving open problems in their area of research while building collaborations with faculty at other institutions. Faculty are also expected to produce publishable work as a result of participating in the program. In accordance with the stated goals, the program will improve access to research for students at PUIs, where such opportunities are typically limited. It will also (re)-energize faculty at PUIs so that they remain active in research. By doing so, FURST will help transform the research culture at the participating institutions, especially since the bulk of the research activities will take place at FURST teams' home institutions. While FURST student participants will learn skills through the program that are invaluable in graduate school and in the scientific workplace, the program will broadly impact the students at the involved PUIs by demonstrating to them (through student talks and presentations) that research can be part of the undergraduate educational experience. Finally, through the immersion in an active REU site, FURST students will gain exposure to the workings of an REU program, and will be able to make better informed choices about applying to REU as a potential next step in their academic development.

教师和本科生研究学生团队（FURST）计划汇集了由本科生和主要是本科机构（PUI）的教师组成的小型研究小组，以便为​​他们提供长达一年的研究经验。该计划还为弗雷斯诺州立一个既定的夏季REU站点的参与者提供了一个月的夏季沉浸。 FURST学生有机会与REU学生一起参加专业的研讨会，演讲和学术讨论，而FURST教师可以利用与Furst计划中的同龄人进行现场，亲自研究的合作。该计划的主要目标是培养PUI的学生和教师研究，其特定目标是制作学生和教职员工撰写出版物以及演讲。该计划的目的是包容性并且可以访问来自不同研究重点和支持的机构的团队，以减轻机构的文化变化，这些变化可能不认为研究是高等教育的典型组成部分。Furst学生将在其教师导师的指导下解决数学问题的开放问题。研究主题包括网络中的社区探测问题，扩展对COP和强盗游戏的框架和分析，在数据分析和插值问题中使用粗糙的RICCI曲率，非线性Riccati-Mermakov方程的研究和解决方案以及其他非线性分配分配偏微分方程。通过在他们的家庭机构的阅读和演讲中加强他们在所选研究主题中的背景，这将使Furst学生在沉浸阶段与REU学生相同的速度进行研究。希望学生在同行评审期刊中提交研究的最终产品进行出版。弗斯特教师将在与其他机构的教职员工建立合作的同时，在其研究领域中解决开放问题。还希望教师因参加该计划而产生可发布的工作。根据既定的目标，该计划将改善PUI的学生的研究访问，而PUI通常受到限制。它也将（重新）在PUI的教职员工中增强，以便他们继续研究。通过这样做，Furst将有助于改变参与机构的研究文化，尤其是因为大部分研究活动将在Furst Teams的家庭机构进行。尽管FURST学生参与者将通过该计划学习技能，这些计划在研究生院和科学工作场所中都是无价的，但该计划将通过向涉及的PUI的学生（通过学生的谈话和演讲）展示研究可能是本科教育经验的一部分，从而广泛地影响了PUIS的学生。最后，通过沉浸在活跃的REU网站中，FURST学生将获得REU计划的运作方式，并能够做出有关将REU申请的更好选择的选择，以此作为其学术发展的潜在下一步。