REU Site: The Temporal Dynamics of Learning

REU 网站：学习的时间动态

• 批准号: 1005256
• 负责人: Garrison Cottrell
• 金额: $ 29.72万
• 依托单位: University of California-San Diego
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-09-01 至 2014-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1005256&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Temporal; Dynamics; Learning

SummaryThe faculty and researchers in the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC) at the University of California, San Diego, host this REU Site in the Temporal Dynamics of Learning. The overall aim of the site is to provide each participating undergraduate student a research experience that leads to publishable work in a new interdisciplinary area studying the role of time and timing in learning, at multiple time and spatial scales, from the scale of synapses operating at the millisecond timescale up to the scale of teachers and students interacting over months. This award gives REU students access to all of the facilities and activities of the Center, including a state-of-the-art motion capture/brain dynamics facility, regular meetings of research networks composed of highly interdisciplinary and collaborative faculty, postdocs, graduate students and undergraduate researchers from more than ten institutions in the US, Canada, and Australia, and a yearly All Hands Meeting where they are encouraged to present their work. The Center's research projects are highly collaborative, and fit into a larger set of goals that together will create a new science of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning. In addition to the training REU students receive in the individual laboratories, extensive professional development opportunities are provided through workshops, an undergraduate research conference, panel discussions, and GRE preparation courses.Intellectual MeritThe intellectual merit of this proposal is the advancement of a new science of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning through undergraduate research experiences in highly productive laboratories, and training in collaborative, rather than competitive, research. This REU Site functions as an undergraduate research arm of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), an NSF-sponsored Science of Learning Center. The goal of this REU Site is to train undergraduates to perform research at the highest level as part of the center's primary mission of developing a new science of the temporal dynamics of learning. This Center is uniquely organized as a network of four research networks, each of which has strong representation at UCSD. The students thus become embedded in a network of senior scientists, postdoctoral researchers, graduate students, and current undergraduate researchers, affording them opportunities to experience highly collaborative and highly interdisciplinary science.Broader Impacts Approximately one third of the students in this REU Site program are under-represented minorities recruited from local community colleges (as it is a school-year program), resulting in the training of a diverse group of future scientists advancing the science of learning from multiple perspectives. This REU program taps into established working relationships with these institutions in order to ensure an adequate applicant pool from their honors programs, and use recommendations by their professors so that a well-qualified and diverse group of students are enrolled. The PI-team believes that this REU site provides opportunities and research experiences for the students that cannot be had anywhere else. The broader impacts of this site include breaking down of traditional disciplinary boundaries as well as boradening participation of under-served and under-represented communities.

在时间动态学习中心（TDLC）的教师和研究人员在加州，圣地亚哥大学，主机在时间动态学习这个REU网站。该网站的总体目标是为每个参与的本科生提供一个研究经验，导致在一个新的跨学科领域研究时间和时间在学习中的作用，在多个时间和空间尺度上，从突触的规模操作在毫秒时间尺度上的教师和学生互动的规模超过几个月。该奖项使REU学生可以使用该中心的所有设施和活动，包括最先进的运动捕捉/脑动力学设施，由高度跨学科和协作的教师，博士后，研究生和本科生组成的研究网络的定期会议来自美国，加拿大和澳大利亚的十多个机构的研究人员，每年举行一次全体会议，鼓励他们介绍自己的工作。该中心的研究项目是高度合作的，并适合于一个更大的目标集，共同创造一个新的学习的时间动力学的科学。除了培训REU学生在个别实验室接收，广泛的专业发展机会，通过研讨会，本科生研究会议，小组讨论，和GRE准备课程提供。智力MeritThe智力的优点，这一建议是一个新的科学进步的学习时间动力学通过本科生的研究经验，在高生产力的实验室，和培训合作，而不是竞争性的研究。这个REU网站作为学习中心（TDLC）的时间动力学的本科生研究手臂，学习中心的NSF赞助的科学。这个REU网站的目标是培养本科生在最高水平上进行研究，作为该中心的主要使命的一部分，开发一个新的科学学习的时间动态。该中心独特地组织为四个研究网络的网络，每个网络在UCSD都有很强的代表性。因此，学生们融入了由资深科学家、博士后研究人员、研究生和现有本科研究人员组成的网络，为他们提供了体验高度协作和高度跨学科科学的机会。更广泛的影响REU Site计划中约三分之一的学生是从当地社区学院招募的代表性不足的少数民族（因为它是一个学年计划），导致未来的科学家从多个角度推进学习科学的多元化群体的培训。该REU计划利用与这些机构建立的工作关系，以确保他们的荣誉课程有足够的申请人，并使用他们的教授的建议，以便招收合格和多样化的学生。PI团队认为，这个REU网站为学生提供了其他任何地方都无法获得的机会和研究经验。该网站的更广泛的影响包括打破传统的学科界限，以及服务不足和代表性不足的社区的参与。