Collaborative Research: AIM & ICERM Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF)

合作研究：AIM

• 批准号: 2015462
• 负责人: Leslie Hogben
• 金额: $ 30.32万
• 依托单位: American Institute of Mathematics
• 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: 2020-09-15 至 2024-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2015462&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; AIM; & ICERM

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 to continue their own research. To address this national need, with the support of this NSF award, 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 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. Each REUF workshop and ongoing activities will provide a new group of faculty participants from 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 five senior mathematicians (leaders) who have experience doing research with undergraduate students will present problems in a variety of areas. Then the 25 undergraduate faculty participants and the leaders will divide into groups and work on the problems together. 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 will 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.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.

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来与他们所教的学生一起进行研究或继续自己的研究。 为了满足这一国家需求，在 NSF 奖项的支持下，美国数学研究所 (AIM) 和数学计算与实验研究所 (ICERM) 将开展一系列四期本科生教师年度研究体验 (REUF) 2021 年、2022 年、2023 年和 2024 年夏季举办的研讨会。每个 REUF 研讨会和正在进行的活动都将提供一批来自本科院校的新教师参与者，这些参与者拥有有限的研究支持，具有调查数学科学中开放问题的研究经验，并使他们能够与本国机构的本科生一起进行研究。在每次 REUF 研讨会上，五位具有与本科生进行研究经验的高级数学家（领导者）将提出各个领域的问题。 随后，25名本科生教师与会领导将分成小组，共同解决问题。 研讨会将以每个项目的小组演示结束。大部分时间将花在研究上，但也会有关于由（联合）首席研究员领导的本科生研究最佳实践等主题的整个小组讨论，他们每天都会与领导者会面。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体验，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。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并被认为是值得的通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来获得支持。