REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Immigration, Geography, and Race/Ethnicity in the United States

REU 网站：美国移民、地理和种族/民族的本科生研究

• 批准号: 1004809
• 负责人: Nestor Rodriguez
• 金额: $ 20.87万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-01 至 2013-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1004809&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Undergraduate; Research; Immigration

This REU site is the continuation of 20 successful years of running a similar REU Site at the University of Texas at Austin, under the guidance of two new Principal Investigators. For this cycle, the organizing theme "Minority Group Demography" of the program focuses on impacts of immigration on the geography and social and economic conditions of U.S. racial and ethnic populations. Students have much to study and research about these impacts, as immigration is reshaping many U.S. racial/ethnic minority communities. This interdisciplinary focus reflects the expertise of the two new principal investigators: Nestor Rodriguez (Department of Sociology) and Rebecca Torres (Department of Geography and the Environment). It is expected that the students who are accepted into the program will continue to be a diverse group including under-represented minorities.Intellectual Merit. The intellectual merit of this REU Site at UT Austin is the academic and ethical development of junior social science scholars around a topic of immense importance to the United States. The goals are to provide the REU students with exposure, experience, and expertise. Precise program objectives have been developed to accomplish these goals. Exposure to social demography and geographic analysis is accomplished via formal coursework and seminars. In addition to the research projects, a series of professionalization workshops, or pro-seminars, are conducted during the summer. In these pro-seminars, the REU students discuss issues such as getting into graduate school and the myriad ethical concerns that social scientists confront during research. The REU students gain concrete experience in three ways. First, students learn about substantive issues concerning the social and spatial dimensions of impacts of immigration on racial and ethnic settings in the formal course. Second, students are introduced to statistical analysis of migration data in a programming lab and to spatial data analysis in Geography workshops. Third, students experience intense mentoring from Population Research Center (PRC) graduate students and faculty affiliates as they work to produce a stand-alone deliverable scholarly paper by the end of the summer program. Finally, the REU students demonstrate their expertise in two ways. They present their research work to a gathering of faculty affiliates, graduate students, and other invited scholars, and with travel support they will present their REU research papers at the annual fall meeting of the Southern Demographic Association (SDA).Broader impacts. The main broader impact of the program is to influence the future of higher education in the social sciences, with special attention to the racial/ethnic and gender diversity of the future academic workforce. The successes of the previous REU site program at UT Austin are already evident, including students who have recently earned their Ph.D.s and have been placed at leading research universities, a host of students who are in leading graduate programs around the country, and others who have recently completed the REU program and will be moving on to graduate school.

这个REU网站是在两个新的首席研究员的指导下，在德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校成功运行类似REU网站20年的延续。 对于这个周期，该计划的组织主题“少数群体人口”侧重于移民对美国的地理和社会经济条件的影响种族和民族人口。学生们有很多关于这些影响的研究和研究，因为移民正在重塑许多美国种族/少数民族社区。这一跨学科的重点反映了两个新的主要研究人员的专业知识：nanomas罗德里格斯（社会学系）和丽贝卡托雷斯（地理与环境系）。预计被该计划录取的学生将继续是一个多元化的群体，包括代表性不足的少数民族。这个REU网站在UT奥斯汀的智力价值是初级社会科学学者的学术和道德发展围绕一个对美国非常重要的主题。目标是为REU学生提供曝光，经验和专业知识。已经制定了精确的计划目标来实现这些目标。接触社会人口学和地理分析是通过正式的课程和研讨会完成。除了研究项目外，夏季还举办了一系列专业化讲习班或专业研讨会。在这些专业研讨会上，REU的学生讨论了诸如进入研究生院和社会科学家在研究过程中面临的无数道德问题等问题。REU学生通过三种方式获得具体的经验。首先，学生在正式课程中了解有关移民对种族和民族环境影响的社会和空间方面的实质性问题。其次，学生将在编程实验室中学习移民数据的统计分析，并在地理研讨会中学习空间数据分析。第三，学生体验到来自人口研究中心（PRC）研究生和教职员工的强烈指导，因为他们致力于在夏季课程结束时制作独立的可交付学术论文。最后，REU学生以两种方式展示他们的专业知识。他们目前他们的研究工作的教师附属机构，研究生和其他受邀学者的聚会，并与旅行支持，他们将提出他们的REU研究论文在南方人口协会（SDA）的年度秋季会议。该计划的主要更广泛的影响是影响社会科学高等教育的未来，特别关注未来学术队伍的种族/民族和性别多样性。在UT奥斯汀以前的REU网站程序的成功已经很明显，包括谁最近赢得了他们的博士学位，并已被放置在领先的研究型大学的学生，谁是在全国各地领先的研究生课程的学生主机，和其他人谁最近完成了REU程序，并将继续研究生院。