REU Site: From the Clouds to the Core: A Place-Based REU for Southwestern US Community/Tribal College Students to Increase Under-Represented Group Recruitment to the Geosciences

REU 网站：从云端到核心：为美国西南部社区/部落大学生提供基于地点的 REU，以增加地球科学领域代表性不足群体的招聘

• 批准号: 2149572
• 负责人: Andrew Cohen
• 金额: $ 40.29万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-11-01 至 2025-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2149572&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Clouds; Core; Place; REU; Site; Clouds; Core; Place

This Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Arizona (UA) will provide summer research experience opportunities to geoscience students from two-year community and tribal colleges around the southwest. The goal of the program is to stimulate interest in the geosciences early in the academic careers of these students and create a clear and inviting pathway to transfer into four-year college geoscience programs for these students. This REU program will also provide post-research project mentoring conducive to retaining the students through completion of their four-year degree. The project is intended to create a lasting network of collaboration between the University of Arizona and partner two-year colleges in the region that will ultimately facilitate stronger transfer pathways for all two-year college students. The results of this program can also serve as a model for historically excluded group-focused research experiences for undergraduates for other STEM disciplines. This REU program will work to address the ongoing challenge of limited enrollment and retention among historically excluded groups from the geosciences through a program specifically targeting student recruitment from ~15 predominantly Hispanic/Latinx, Black, and Native American-serving regional community and tribal colleges from around the southwestern US. An initial 2-week campus immersion for all participants, introducing them to the breath of geosciences academic and career opportunities, campus life and the university educational setting, will be followed by a ~5-week mentored research project, working either at the UA in the lab, in a field-based setting, or in a co-mentored setting from their home base with community college and tribal college co-mentors. During the final week of the program all students will return to the UA for summative activities, including formal research presentations of their work, and allowing for family participation in recognition of their student’s achievements.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.

亚利桑那大学（UA）的本科生（REU）网站的研究经验将为来自西南两年的社区和部落学院的地球科学学生提供夏季研究经验。该计划的目的是在这些学生的学术职业生涯的早期激发对地球科学的兴趣，并为这些学生提供清晰而邀请的途径，以转移到四年制的大学地球科学计划中。 REU计划还将提供研究后项目的心理指导，以通过完成四年制学位来保留学生。该项目旨在在亚利桑那大学和该地区的合伙大学之间建立持久的合作网络，最终将为所有两年的大学生提供更强大的转会途径。该计划的结果还可以作为历史上排除在其他STEM学科的本科生以历史为中心的研究经验的模型。该REU计划将通过一项专门针对约15名主要是西班牙裔/拉丁裔和美国本土服务的地区社区和来自西南部西南部的美国原住民社区和部落学院的计划，以解决历史上排除在地球科学的群体中的有限挑战和保留率的持续挑战。最初为所有参与者浸入最初的2周校园，向他们介绍地球科学学术和职业机会，校园生活和大学教育环境的呼吸，随后是一个约5周的指导研究项目，在实验室的UA工作，在实地设置的UA工作，或者是在基于现场的环境中，或者是在社区和部落大学的共同基础上与社区大学和部落大学共同的共同设置。在该计划的最后一周，所有学生将返回UA进行总结活动，包括对其工作的正式研究演讲，并允许家庭参与以表彰他们的学生成就。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的审查标准来通过评估而被视为珍贵的支持。