Partnership for Undergraduate Research: Enhancing the Mathematics Curriculum (PUR)

本科研究伙伴关系：加强数学课程（PUR）将通过创建一个新的综合数学专业，专注于本科研究和研究生院预科课程，加强和扩展威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校（UWEC）的本科数学课程。UWEC是一个主要的本科机构，将与威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UWM）合作，威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校是一个研究机构，也是威斯康星大学系统中最多样化的机构，让代表性不足的学生参与数学研究。新开设的以研究为重点的综合专业将包括研究技能和道德的正式指导，写作和演讲技巧的培训，以及持续的本科生研究经历。这个重新设计的课程允许学生将正在进行的研究整合到他们的学位中。同时，它创造了将教师指导本科生研究作为一种教学活动的机会。调查人员将鼓励西澳大学系统的大学和其他机构采用UWEC和UWM的合作模式，以增加代表性不足的群体进入STEM职业的机会，并积极发展一个更具包容性的环境。此外，该项目是通过将研究纳入本科课程来增加参与合作研究的本科生数量的可持续方式的典范。本科生将学习如何成功地进行研究，培养进行原创性研究和传播研究成果所必需的技能。这些技能包括演讲和写作，调查论文以寻找背景信息，通过同伴指导与他人合作，以及发起和维护一个研究项目。因此，该计划将增加本科生的数学知识和研究技能，更好地为研究生院和具有全球竞争力的STEM劳动力做好准备。

Partnership for Undergraduate Research: Enhancing the Mathematics Curriculum (PUR) will enhance and expand the undergraduate mathematics curriculum at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (UWEC) by creating a new comprehensive mathematics major focused on undergraduate research and graduate school preparatory courses. UWEC, a primarily undergraduate institution, will partner with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM), a research institution and the most diverse institution in the University of Wisconsin System, to engage underrepresented students in mathematics research. The newly developed comprehensive major with research emphasis will incorporate formal instruction in research skills and ethics, training in writing and presentation skills, and a sustained undergraduate research experience. This curriculum redesign allows students to integrate research in progress toward their degrees. Simultaneously, it creates opportunities to recognize faculty mentorship of undergraduate research as a teaching activity. The investigators will encourage UW System universities and other institutions to adopt the UWEC and UWM partnership model in order to increase access of underrepresented groups to STEM careers and actively develop a more inclusive environment. In addition, this project serves as a model of a sustainable way to increase the number of undergraduates participating in collaborative research by incorporating research into the undergraduate curriculum. Undergraduate participants will learn how to successfully do research, building skills necessary for conducting original research and disseminating their results. These skills include presentation and writing, surveying papers to find background information, collaborating with others through peer mentoring, and initiating and maintaining a research program. Thus, the program will increase the mathematical knowledge and research skills of undergraduates, better preparing them for graduate school and a globally competitive STEM workforce.