EMSW21-MCTP: Long-Term Undergraduate Research Experience (LURE)

数学科学的长期本科生研究经验（LURE）模型是中密歇根大学、科平州立大学、奥林学院和里士满大学数学系之间的合作。 LURE模式强调尽早招收本科生进行数学研究，培养学生对数学科学的兴趣。 它建立在物理和生命科学中经常使用的学徒模式的成功基础上，其中科学家经常让一年级和二年级的本科生从事研究，然后继续指导这些学生，直到他们准备攻读研究生学位。 具体来说，LURE在学生的本科生涯早期招募学生，并将他们与在数学科学领域为期两年的研究经验中担任导师的教师配对。 通过密切监督的研究和独立的学习活动，跨越两个夏天（每个十周）和两个学年，学生体验研究项目的所有步骤，从背景阅读到结果的专业演示。 这使得本科生参与数学研究经验，比传统的单暑期研究经验更复杂。 brbrLURE还为教师提供支持和培训，以指导本科生的研究项目。 在四年的赠款中，LURE将从不同的机构（综合性大学，历史上的黑人大学，性别平衡的工程学院，选择性的文科学院和全女子学院）中招收80名本科生和28名教师。 我们合作的多样性增加了我们的模型和研究结果的可移植性，以广泛的机构。 团结、种族平等和团结政府将积极招募妇女和少数民族，该方案的具体方面是在参考有关培养代表性不足群体成功的文献后制定的。 我们预计，LURE计划将增加选择数学课程的本科生人数超过机构要求，本科生和教师从事本科研究经验的数量，以及本科生的数量感觉准备从事研究生工作。 每年的LURE会议将展示所有参与机构的团队的成果，作为应用于数学的学徒模型的传播渠道，并提供评估，反思和方案改进的机会。

The Long-term Undergraduate Research Experience (LURE) model for the mathematical sciences is a collaboration between the mathematics faculty at Central Michigan University, Coppin State University, Olin College, and the University of Richmond. The LURE model emphasizes the early recruitment of undergraduates to mathematical research and the cultivation of interest in the mathematical sciences. It builds upon the success of the apprentice model often used in the physical and life sciences, wherein scientists routinely engage first- and second-year undergraduates in research and then continue to mentor these students until they are prepared to pursue graduate degrees. Specifically, LURE recruits students early in their undergraduate careers and pairs them with faculty who serve as mentors throughout a two-year research experience in the mathematical sciences. Through closely supervised research and independent study activities spanning two summers (ten weeks each) and two academic years, students experience all steps in a research project, from background reading to the professional presentation of results. This allows undergraduates to be involved with mathematics research experiences that are more sophisticated than possible with traditional single-summer research experiences. brbrLURE also provides support and training for faculty to mentor undergraduate research projects. Over the four years of the grant, LURE will engage a total of 80 undergraduates and 28 faculty from a diverse collection of institutions (a comprehensive university, a historically black university, a gender-balanced engineering college, a selective liberal arts college, and an all-women's college). The diversity of our collaboration increases the transferability of our model and findings to a wide range of institutions. LURE will proactively recruit women and minorities, with specific aspects of the program having been developed in consultation with literature on cultivating the success of underrepresented groups. We expect that the LURE program will increase the number of undergraduates electing mathematics courses beyond institutional requirements, the number of undergraduates and faculty members engaging in undergraduate research experiences, and the number of undergraduates feeling prepared to pursue graduate work. A yearly LURE conference will showcase the results of the teams at all participating institutions, serve as a dissemination outlet for the apprentice model applied to mathematics, and provide an opportunity for assessment, reflection, and programmatic improvements.