REU Site: Social and Environmental Influences on Brain and Behavior

REU 网站：社会和环境对大脑和行为的影响

• 批准号: 2235289
• 负责人: Vanessa LoBue
• 金额: $ 41.84万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University Newark
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-01-01 至 2026-12-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2235289&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Social; Environmental; Influences

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences (SBE). The goal of this REU Site is to create an undergraduate research fellowship program. One of the two major aims of this program is to improve the diversity of our scientists. To improve the education, training, and subsequent representation of diverse populations in psychology, we will provide students from underrepresented backgrounds with rigorous research training so that they are better prepared to pursue a future career in STEM. Our second major aim is to improve the diversity of our science. Unfortunately, in most published research, variation based on context, socio-economic status and race, for example, is difficult to study, as our samples are not representative of the general US population. Instead of controlling for variability based on socio-emotional context, in this proposal, we seek to study it directly in an attempt to find systematic relations between this variability and basic neural, cognitive, and social processes. Overall, it is our hope that this training program will not only create a more diverse next generation of scientists, but that it will also train current and future generations of researchers who are highly motivated and well-equipped to produce more diverse science.The 1-year fellowship program will have three main components—a) rigorous hands-on research training, b) professional development, and c) community engagement. To gain hands-on research training, fellows will receive a stipend to work full-time in a Rutgers-Newark lab in the Psychology Department for the duration of the summer. To foster career professional development and enhance their research skills, fellows will also take part in a weekly, one-hour research seminar during the academic year. Finally, they will receive training in community engagement so that they can learn how to recruit a diverse and representative sample of human subjects for their own research, and how to disseminate their findings directly to those community members.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.

该项目是从社会，行为和经济科学局（SBE）的本科生（REU）站点计划（SBE）的研究经验中资助的。此REU网站的目的是创建一项本科研究奖学金计划。该计划的两个主要目的之一是改善我们科学家的多样性。为了改善心理学多样性人群的教育，培训和随后的代表，我们将为来自代表性不足的背景的学生提供严格的研究培训，以便他们更好地准备从事STEM的未来职业。我们的第二个主要目的是改善科学的多样性。不幸的是，在大多数已发表的研究中，基于上下文，社会经济地位和种族的变化很难研究，因为我们的样本不代表美国一般人群。我们不必基于社会情感环境控制可变性，而是在本提案中直接研究它，以试图在这种变异性与基本神经，认知和社会过程之间进行系统关系。总体而言，我们希望该培训计划不仅能够创造出更加多样化的下一代科学家，而且还将培训当前和未来的研究人员，这些研究人员具有很高的动力且能力丰富，可以生产更多的潜水科学。一年一度的奖学金计划将具有三个主要的组成部分，包括一个严格的动手动手研究培训，b）专业发展，b）专业发展以及c）社区参与。为了获得动手研究培训，研究员将在整个夏季期间在心理学系的罗格斯 - 纽瓦克实验室中全职工作压力。为了培养职业专业发展并提高他们的研究技能，研究员还将参加学年每周一次的一小时研究半决赛。最后，他们将接受社区参与方面的培训，以便他们可以学习如何招募潜水员和代表性的人类主题样本进行自己的研究，以及如何将他们的发现直接传播给那些社区成员。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和更广泛的影响审查审查的审查标准来通过评估来通过评估来获得支持的。