Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics

数学本科生研究中心

• 批准号: 2317453
• 负责人: Kathryn Leonard
• 金额: $ 153.51万
• 依托单位: Occidental College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-11-01 至 2028-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Undergraduate; Research; Mathematics

The Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) provides funding and training for undergraduate research courses during the academic year that are carried out in collaboration between a two-year or community college and a bachelor's-granting institution. Faculty members funded by CURM receive training in inclusive and scaffolded research mentoring for early-career students, funding to support research activities and collaboration during the academic year, and models for institutionalizing academic year undergraduate research. CURM also provides mentorship for developing a strong proposal to CURM for faculty with less experience in grant writing. Intellectual merits include contributions to research, presentations at conferences and workshops, and publishing research papers in multiple subfields of mathematics. Broader impacts include early exposure for students to the high impact practice of research, increasing transfer rates for two year and community college students, and development of strong research and research mentoring skills in mathematics faculty across the US. CURM addresses previously identified barriers to undergraduate research at 2-year and community colleges. Providing funding for faculty helps address high teaching loads and lack of travel funding. Credit-bearing course-based research opportunities help address lack of student awareness of research opportunities, and also student workload issues. Inter-institutional communities of practice help address lack of student awareness, lack of sense of belonging at 4-year institutions for 2-year college students, and the short time students may be enrolled at 2-year colleges. Finally, training for faculty in research areas with rich selections of research projects for early career students helps address faculty uncertainty about how to find and effectively mentor an appropriate research project. We will offer a research immersion experience for faculty in those research areas, including data science, graph theory, mathematical modeling, and mathematics education. Doing so will also increase the research expertise in participating institutions.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.

数学本科研究中心（CURM）在学年中为本科研究课程提供资金和培训，这些课程是在两年或社区学院与学士学位机构之间合作进行的。由Curm资助的教职员工接受包括早期学生的包容性和脚手架研究指导的培训，资金以支持学年的研究活动和协作，以及用于制度化学年学年本科生研究的模型。 CURM还提供指导，以制定强有力的建议，以使教师的责任在赠款写作方面的经验较少。智力优点包括对研究的贡献，会议和研讨会上的演讲以及在数学多个子领域发表研究论文的贡献。更广泛的影响包括为学生提早接触研究的高影响力实践，增加了两年的转移率和社区大学生的转移率，以及在美国的数学学院发展强大的研究和研究指导技能。 Curm解决了先前确定的2年和社区学院本科研究的障碍。为教师提供资金有助于解决较高的教学负担和缺乏旅行资金。基于信用课程的研究机会有助于解决学生对研究机会的认识以及学生工作量问题的缺乏。实践间实践社区有助于解决学生意识的缺乏，对2年大学生的4年机构缺乏归属感，而短期学生可能会在2年的大学中注册。最后，在研究领域的教师培训对早期职业学生的研究项目丰富的研究有助于解决有关如何找到和有效指导适当的研究项目的教师的不确定性。我们将为这些研究领域的教师提供研究沉浸式经验，包括数据科学，图理论，数学建模和数学教育。这样做还将提高参与机构的研究专业知识。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛影响的评论标准来评估值得支持的。