Value, Impact and Best Practices: Maximizing REU SBE Potential

本科生研究理事会（CUR）正在华盛顿举办为期1.5天的会议，致力于社会，行为和经济科学领域的本科生研究经验（REU）。会议汇集了资深的REU获奖者和他们的学生，新获奖者和教师谁渴望赢得REU赠款为他们的机构或送他们的学生到REU计划。与会者听取全体发言人对研究显示本科研究和本科研究计划的最佳实践的价值和影响。分组会议解决相关的主题，例如如何制度化，维持和评估本科研究计划，并从第一年到第四年脚手架本科研究经验。至少有一个分组会议是专门为学生参与者设计的，例如利用本科生的研究经验，为未来的职业成功。会议结束后，CUR将发布会议记录，包括全体会议地址，PowerPoint演示文稿和分组会议摘要。这些资料将提供给大学教师和行政人员组成的CUR网络。长期的REU计划已经制定了招募和监督学生，提供后勤支持，监督研究，教授研究道德和传播研究成果的程序。目前还没有机制让这些经验丰富的项目与现有的项目或新的获奖者分享他们的最佳实践;这次会议提供了这种机制。会议包括学生参与SBE REU计划（a）与主要研究人员和NSF项目官员分享他们的经验，（B）与其他教师和学生在SBE科学的广泛学科领域体验学术会议。REU课程通常由了解自己学科研究的研究人员开发和管理，但可能不知道本科研究的奖学金。这次会议有助于经验丰富的REU主要研究人员通过分享对参与研究的影响的研究，将他们的本科研究计划纳入更广泛的框架。它还帮助新的主要研究人员考虑并可能采用在退伍军人计划中开发的适当的最佳实践到他们自己的项目中。它帮助教师的机构目前没有主办一个REU计划，以了解他们的学生如何可以访问REU计划在其他机构，以及他们如何可能赢得REU赠款自己。会议还讨论了所有人感兴趣的问题，例如将REU计划制度化，SBE REU网站面临的具体挑战，确保额外的资源，并将适当的研究机会纳入本科课程。

The Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) is hosting a 1.5 day conference in Washington, DC, devoted to Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) in the fields of Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences. The conference brings together veteran REU awardees and their students, new awardees, and faculty who aspire to win REU grants for their institutions or send their students to REU programs. Participants hear from plenary speakers on the research showing the value and impact of undergraduate research and best practices in undergraduate research programs. Breakout sessions address relevant topics, e.g. how to institutionalize, sustain, and evaluate undergraduate research programs, and scaffolding undergraduate research experiences from first through fourth year. At least one breakout session is designed specifically for student participants, e.g. leveraging undergraduate research experiences for future career success. Following the conference, CUR will publish conference proceedings with plenary addresses, PowerPoint presentations, and summaries of breakout sessions. These will be made available to the CUR network of university faculty and administrators.Intellectual merit. Long-standing REU programs have developed procedures for recruiting and supervising students, providing logistical support, supervising research, teaching research ethics, and disseminating research results. There is currently no mechanism for these experienced programs to share their best practices with existing programs or with new awardees; this conference provides that mechanism. The conference includes student participants in SBE REU programs to (a) share their experiences with principal investigators and NSF program officers and (b) experience an academic conference with other faculty and students in their broad disciplinary area within the SBE sciences.Broader impacts. REU programs are typically developed and managed by researchers who understand research in their own disciplines, but may not know of the scholarship of undergraduate research. This conference helps experienced REU principal investigators put their undergraduate research programs into a broader framework by sharing research on the impact of participating in research. It also helps new principal investigators consider and potentially adopt the appropriate best practices developed in veteran program to their own projects. It helps faculty whose institutions do not currently host an REU program to learn how their students can access REU programs at other institutions, and how they might win REU grants themselves. The conference also addresses issues of interest to all, e.g. institutionalizing REU programs, specific challenges faced by SBE REU sites, securing additional resources, and incorporating appropriate research opportunities into undergraduate curricula.