REU Site: Michigan Summer Program in Cognition and Early Development (MSPICED)

REU 网站：密歇根认知和早期发展夏季项目 (MSPICED)

• 批准号: 2050471
• 负责人: Felix Warneken
• 金额: $ 32.5万
• 依托单位: Regents of the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-05-01 至 2024-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2050471&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Michigan; Summer; Program

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate and is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program. It has both scientific and societal benefits, and integrates research and education. This summer internship program aims to educate undergraduate students by giving them first-hand experience in how psychological research is conducted and help them develop professional skills in science. Developmental science is a field of psychology concerned with the development of children who are facing a dynamically changing reality while teachers, parents, and policy makers are experiencing heightened demand for making rapid decisions affecting children world-wide. To support them, developmental science advances evidence-based theory and practice of promoting child development and well-being. Therefore, it is critical for individuals of many professions to gain the skill-sets for using and interpreting scientific findings through active participation in state-of-the-art developmental science research. To help with these educational goals, each year 7 undergraduate interns will participate in a 10-week summer internship program that includes (1) hands-on research-participation in active empirical research projects, directly supervised by faculty with a strong track-record of involving undergraduates in their research, (2) teaching modules to offer training in advanced behavioral and neuroscience methods and develop programming skills for using state-of-the-art statistics software, and (3) professional development training to tutor academic writing, science communication to the public, and how to write strong graduate school applications for a career in science. Recruitment is focused on a diverse group of undergraduates, including those from smaller universities and colleges that do not have the opportunity to be involved in active psychological research at their home institutions. Therefore, priority is given to under-represented minority students and first-generation college students through several recruitment mechanisms with organizations and databases that reach these target populations. By working collaboratively with faculty members and graduate students at the University of Michigan, summer interns become actively involved in pursuing specific projects in developmental science focused on the cognitive development of young children. The interns collect and analyze scientific data as part of behavioral and neuroscience studies. They learn how to write and present scientific research, including academic writing and statistical data analysis, as well as poster presentations at the Department of Psychology and scientific conferences. Moreover, through collaborations with local museums in Ann Arbor, Michigan, interns will learn about science communication with the greater public. The broader impact of this is to break down boundaries and strengthen their resolve in becoming scientists themselves. In addition to their primary research project, interns participate in weekly meetings and formal training sessions introducing them to core tenets of developmental science and career paths in the discipline. Professional training modules, a mentoring agreement, assessment tools for the interns’ short-term and long-term professional goals, and an alumni network to help with further career steps all aim to promote diversity and inclusion not only in recruitment, but in fostering long-term success of the interns of this REU site.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.

该项目是从SBE局的本科生（REU）网站计划的研究经验中资助的，并由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。它具有科学和社会利益，并整合了研究和教育。今年暑期实习计划旨在通过为他们提供心理学研究的第一手经验并帮助他们发展科学领域的专业技能，从而对本科生进行教育。发展科学是一个心理学领域，涉及到面临动态不断变化的现实的儿童的发展，而老师，父母和政策制定者正经历着提高的需求，以做出快速决定影响全世界儿童的快速决定。为了支持他们，发展科学推进了基于证据的理论和促进儿童发展和福祉的实践。因此，对于许多专业的个人而言，通过积极参与最先进的发展科学研究来利用和解释科学发现的技能是至关重要的。为了帮助实现这些教育目标，每年7年的本科实习生将参加一个为期10周的暑期实习计划，包括（1）在积极的经验研究项目中直接进行的研究参与，由教职员工直接监督，教职员工的良好轨道是参与他们的研究中培训的培训，以提供先进的行为和神经能力的培训，以实现研究的培训，以实现培训 - 专业发展培训对教师学术写作，与公众的科学沟通以及如何为科学职业撰写强大的研究生院申请。招聘专注于一个本科生的潜水者群体，包括那些没有机会在其家庭机构中参与积极的心理研究的较小大学和学院的人群。因此，通过多种招聘机制，通过与这些目标人群达到这些目标人群的组织和数据库，优先考虑了代表性不足的少数族裔学生和第一代大学生。通过与密歇根大学的教职员工和研究生合作，暑期实习生积极参与从事发展科学领域的特定项目，专注于幼儿的认知发展。作为行为和神经科学研究的一部分，实习生收集和分析科学数据。他们学习如何撰写和提出科学研究，包括学术写作和统计数据分析，以及心理学和科学会议系的海报演讲。此外，通过与密歇根州安阿伯市的当地博物馆的合作，实习生将了解与大公众的科学沟通。这样做的更广泛的影响是打破界限并加强他们成为科学家自己的决心。除了他们的主要研究项目外，参加每周会议和正式培训课程的Inters将其介绍给该学科中发展科学和职业道路的核心宗旨。专业培训模块，心理协议，际短期和长期职业目标的评估工具以及一个校友网络有助于进一步的职业步骤，旨在促进不仅在招聘方面的多样性和包容性，而且在促进本REU站点的实习生的长期成功方面，这一奖项反映了NSF的法定任务和审查的范围，这是通过评估的范围来弥补的。