PRISM: Attracting Students to Mathematics, Physics, and Biology Through Interdisciplinary Research and Discovery

PRISM：通过跨学科研究和发现吸引学生学习数学、物理和生物学

• 批准号: 0928587
• 负责人: Richard Porter
• 金额: $ 198.59万
• 依托单位: Northeastern University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2009-08-01 至 2015-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0928587&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: PRISM; Attracting; Students; Mathematics; Physics

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Intellectual Merit: The proposed activities serve the dual role to inspire passion in mathematics and the natural sciences and to create leaders. Inspiration in all proposed activities will stem from the excitement of discovering how mathematics provides both a common language and a powerful toolkit to understand a broad range of interrelated complex phenomena in today?s world that are at the forefront of research in STEM disciplines. We create this excitement by bringing students, at the earliest stages in their undergraduate years, the research expertise of the CO-PIs together with that of a collaboration of outstanding researchers in Mathematics, Physics, and Biology. By allowing the students to connect personally with these researchers and their graduate students as well as to participate actively in their research activities, first as PRISM participants and then as PRISM Fellows, we provide students the unique opportunity to move towards assuming research leadership that eventually shapes their own chosen fields and careers. Key new, integrated initiatives in the proposal include: (a) Proactive Recruitment that exploits successful STEM Advanced Placement (AP) outreach programs, (b) Summer Preview: Exploring Mathematics for first-year students, (c) Interdisciplinary Research Seminars (IDRS) for first- and second-year students during the Fall and Spring semesters, (d) A 2-Day Invitational Workshop---An Introduction to Problem Solving and Inquiry in Mathematics, Physics, and Biology for about 100 participants with teams of students from Northeastern and two-year and four-year colleges in the Boston area, (e) Summer Discovery Experience---an intensive four-week interdisciplinary program engaging students in problem solving and open-ended inquiry, and (f) a Six-Month Research Co-op/Internship with faculty or in positions offsite with organizations such as the US-USDA Center on Aging, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Microsoft, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or the Center for Biomedical Informatics at the Harvard Medical Center being among the possibilities. Broader Impact: Through the 2-day Workshop, PRISM activities will reach beyond Northeastern to high school students in the STEM outreach programs described in section 1 below as well as two and four year colleges in the area. Through the opportunity to participate in the Summer Discovery Experience offsite, the reach for this piece of the PRISM program has the potential to be at least national in scope as does the dissemination of PRISM results described above. Through PRISM student presentations at discipline-based meetings that invite student participation, our students will have an impact on others as they work to include early research opportunities for students on their campus. An important measure of this impact will be our success to attract African-American, Hispanic, and low-income students to mathematics and sciences through the unique seamless integration of ongoing urban high-school outreach programs and the proposed PRISM activities at Northeastern University. Overall, our PRISM program aims to demonstrate the power of a community of students at all levels and faculty to attract students to mathematics and science and provide.

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。 智力价值：拟议的活动发挥双重作用，激发数学和自然科学的热情，并培养领导者。所有拟议活动的灵感将来自于发现数学如何提供一种共同语言和一个强大的工具包来理解当今广泛的相互关联的复杂现象的兴奋？的世界是在STEM学科研究的前沿。我们通过为学生带来这种兴奋，在他们本科的最早阶段，CO-PI的研究专业知识与数学，物理和生物学领域的优秀研究人员的合作。通过让学生亲自与这些研究人员和他们的研究生联系，并积极参与他们的研究活动，首先作为PRISM参与者，然后作为PRISM研究员，我们为学生提供了独特的机会，以走向承担研究领导力，最终塑造自己选择的领域和职业。该提案中的关键新的综合举措包括：（a）利用成功的STEM高级安置（AP）外展计划的主动招聘，（B）夏季预览：（c）在秋季和春季学期为一年级和二年级学生举办跨学科研究研讨会，（d）一个为期两天的邀请讲习班-介绍数学、物理和生物中的问题解决和探究，参加者约有100人，参加者是来自东北部和波士顿地区两年制和四年制学院的学生，（e）夏季发现体验-一个为期四周的密集的跨学科项目，让学生参与解决问题和开放式调查，以及（f）与教师或与美国农业部老龄化中心、贝斯以色列女执事医疗中心、微软、费米国家加速器实验室等组织的异地职位进行为期六个月的研究合作/实习，或者哈佛医学中心的生物医学信息学中心也是可能的。 更广泛的影响：通过为期2天的研讨会，PRISM活动将超越东北部，到达下面第1节所述的STEM外展计划中的高中生，以及该地区的两年制和四年制大学。通过有机会参加夏季发现体验场外，达到这一块的PRISM计划有可能至少是全国范围内的传播PRISM结果如上所述。通过PRISM学生在邀请学生参与的学科会议上的演讲，我们的学生将对他人产生影响，因为他们致力于为校园内的学生提供早期研究机会。这种影响的一个重要措施将是我们成功地吸引非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔和低收入家庭的学生通过正在进行的城市高中外展计划和东北大学拟议的PRISM活动的独特无缝集成的数学和科学。总体而言，我们的PRISM计划旨在展示各级学生和教师社区的力量，以吸引学生学习数学和科学，并提供。