Broadening Participation in Interdisciplinary Science: The REU Component of LA-STEM

扩大跨学科科学的参与：LA-STEM 的 REU 组成部分

• 批准号: 0628763
• 负责人: Connie Stelly
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Louisiana State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0628763&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Broadening; Participation; Interdisciplinary; Science; REU

This award to co-investigators Connie Stelly, Lisa Batiste-Evans, Saundra McGuire, Su-Seng Pang, and Isiah Warner will support twenty undergraduate research students each year for a period of three years. The research context in which these students will be working is broadly multidisciplinary and provides opportunities for first and second year undergraduates to pursue research projects under the tutelage of their choice of 24 faculty members with active research programs in departments ranging from biology to chemistry to chemical engineering to mechanical engineering to computational science to physics to astronomy and beyond. The students will be drawn from two diverse pools: The NSF/LA-STEM Research Scholars and the HHMI Professors Program Scholars. The NSF/LA-STEM program is a joint NSF - Research Corporation - State of Louisiana collaboration that has an overall mission of increasing the number of underrepresented students receiving terminal degrees in the STEM disciplines. It is modeled after the widely recognized Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC and has, to date, produced outstanding results as measured by the scholastic achievement of a very diverse cadre of undergraduates. Co-mingling these students with those supported as HHMI Professors Program Scholars brings into the mix a group of quite good peer mentors, and aspect of undergraduate training emphasized in the HHMI program.This award provides a unique opportunity for undergraduates to enjoy research experiences as integral parts of their undergraduate training. The faculty with whom the students will work is an impressive lot and equally impressive is the list of PIs and Co-PIs, which includes two Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (Warner and Sang).

这一奖项授予合作调查员康妮·斯特利、丽莎·巴蒂斯特-埃文斯、桑德拉·麦奎尔、庞素生和伊赛亚·华纳，他们将在三年内每年资助20名本科生。这些学生将在广泛的多学科研究环境中工作，并为一年级和二年级的本科生提供机会，在他们选择的24名教员的指导下进行研究项目，这些教员在生物、化学、化学工程、机械工程、计算科学、物理、天文学和其他学科都有活跃的研究项目。学生将从两个不同的人才库中挑选：NSF/LA-STEM研究学者和HHMI教授计划学者。NSF/LA-STEM项目是NSF-Research Corporation-State of Louisiana的联合项目，其总体使命是增加在STEM学科获得终端学位的人数不足的学生数量。它仿照密歇根大学公认的迈耶霍夫学者计划，到目前为止，以非常不同的本科生干部的学术成就衡量，取得了突出的成果。将这些学生和那些作为HHMI教授计划奖学金获得者支持的学生混合在一起，带来了一群相当好的同行导师，以及HHMI计划中强调的本科培训方面。这个奖项为本科生提供了一个独特的机会，作为他们本科培训不可分割的一部分，享受研究经验。学生们将与之共事的教职员工令人印象深刻，同样令人印象深刻的是PI和共同PI的名单，其中包括两位科学、数学和工程卓越总统奖获得者(华纳和桑)。