A National Introductory Colloquium and Undergraduate Research Experience in Mathematical Biology

全国数学生物学入门研讨会和本科生研究经验

• 批准号: 1914741
• 负责人: Janet Best
• 金额: $ 7.46万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1914741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Introductory; Colloquium; Undergraduate; Research

This program will provide virtual colloquia for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that include robust scientific discussions and interactions between the speaker and the students and between the students at the different HBCUs. Additionally, this proposal aims to impact both the students and the faculty members at HBCUs. By engaging the HBCU faculty members as partners in the project, the goal is to create pipelines for the HBCU students to graduate schools and to establish and enhance working relationships and networking between HBCU faculty members and faculty members at large research institutions. If these two innovative ideas are successful, they will have a broad impact. This research project emphasizes mathematical biology, but the same ideas should work in other branches of pure and applied mathematics, and in other scientific disciplines as well. In making the virtual colloquia as interactive as a classroom, the project will have created a template for faculty at other research universities to participate in and enhance the training of undergraduates at HBCUs, and that, in and of itself, will create pipelines from the HBCUs to the research institutions, both for students and for faculty. The methods and the template could then be used by other groups of mathematicians or scientists to enhance the training of students at the other HBCUs at low cost.The project has three goals: to encourage undergraduate students at the HBCUs to go to graduate school in the STEM disciplines; to connect faculty in analysis and mathematical biology at the HBCUs to faculty and research programs at The Ohio State University (OSU) and other large research institutions; to experiment with virtual colloquia and virtual teaching techniques in mathematics. Faculty members at six HBCUs will each recruit 2-3 students to participate in the year-long program that includes a meet-and-greet workshop at Howard University, where they will meet the PIs and some of the speakers and hear mathematical biology lectures. Through the academic year, the students receive 7 introductory colloquia in which the speakers sit in their home office and the broadband facilities of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) are used to broadcast the colloquium simultaneously to the six HBCUs. The MBI facilities permit questions and answers and discussions in real time during the talk. Materials prepared by the speakers provide follow-up activities that will be mentored by the local faculty members. The year concludes with a 10-day workshop at OSU that will be both a research experience for the students and collaboration events for the faculty. For the students, there will be panel discussions on academic and non-academic jobs and graduate school. For faculty research engagement, ten mathematical biology faculty members at OSU, in addition to some speakers, have agreed to include an HBCU faculty member in their current research program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该计划将为历史悠久的黑人学院（HBCU）的学生提供虚拟的座谈会，其中包括演讲者与学生之间以及不同HBCUS学生之间的强大科学讨论以及之间的互动。此外，该建议旨在影响HBCUS的学生和教职员工。通过将HBCU教职员工作为该项目的合作伙伴，其目标是为HBCU学生创建管道，以便研究生院，并在大型研究机构建立和增强HBCU教职员工与教职员工之间的工作关系和网络。如果这两个创新的想法成功，它们将产生广泛的影响。该研究项目强调了数学生物学，但是相同的想法应该在纯数学和应用数学的其他分支以及其他科学学科中起作用。在使虚拟的座谈会像课堂一样互动时，该项目将为其他研究大学的教师创建一个模板，以参与HBCUS的本科生的培训，并在本身中创建从HBCUS到学生和教师的研究机构。然后，其他数学家或科学家群体可以使用该方法和模板以低成本来增强其他HBCU的学生的培训。该项目有三个目标：鼓励HBCUS的本科生在STEM学科的研究生院上学；将HBCU的分析和数学生物学教师与俄亥俄州立大学（OSU）和其他大型研究机构的教师和研究计划联系起来；试验数学中的虚拟座谈会和虚拟教学技术。六个HBCUS的教职员工将招募2-3名学生参加为期一年的课程，其中包括霍华德大学的聚会和凝胶研讨会，他们将在那里与PIS会见，并听到一些演讲者并听到数学生物学讲座。在整个学年中，学生将获得7个介绍性座谈会，其中演讲者坐在他们的家庭办公室和数学生物科学研究所（MBI）的宽带设施中，用于同时向六个HBCUS播放座谈会。 MBI设施允许在谈话期间实时提出问题，答案和讨论。演讲者准备的材料提供后续活动，这些活动将由当地教职员工指导。这一年在OSU举行的为期10天的研讨会结束，这既是学生的研究经验，又是教师的合作活动。对于学生来说，将进行有关学术和非学术工作和研究生院的小组讨论。对于教师研究的参与，OSU的十个数学生物学教师除了一些发言人外，还同意将HBCU教职员工纳入其当前的研究计划中。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估来通过评估来支持的，这是值得的。