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

数学科学的长期本科生研究体验(Lure)模式是中央密歇根大学、科平州立大学、奥林学院和里士满大学的数学教员合作的模式。Lure模式强调早期招收本科生从事数学研究，并培养对数学科学的兴趣。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，在这种模式下，科学家通常会让一年级和二年级的本科生参与研究，然后继续指导这些学生，直到他们准备攻读研究生学位。具体地说，招收学生在他们本科生涯的早期，并将他们与在两年的数学科学研究经验中担任导师的教职员工配对。通过严密监督的研究和跨越两个暑期(每个十周)和两个学年的独立学习活动，学生体验研究项目的所有步骤，从背景阅读到结果的专业陈述。这使得本科生可以参与比传统的单暑期研究体验更复杂的数学研究体验。BrbrLURE还为指导本科生研究项目的教师提供支持和培训。在四年的拨款期间，Lure将从不同的机构(一所综合性大学、一所历史悠久的黑人大学、一所性别平衡的工程学院、一所精挑细选的文科学院和一所全女性学院)聘请总共80名本科生和28名教职员工。我们合作的多样性增加了我们的模型和研究结果对各种机构的可转移性。Lure将积极招募妇女和少数族裔，该方案的具体方面是在咨询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计划将增加选修超出院校要求的数学课程的本科生数量，增加从事本科生研究经验的本科生和教职员工数量，以及感觉准备从事研究生工作的本科生数量。一年一度的LURE会议将展示所有参与机构的团队结果，作为应用于数学的学徒模式的传播渠道，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.