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，增强和扩大威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校（UWEC）的本科数学课程。UWEC是一所主要的本科院校，将与威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校（UWM）合作，这是一所研究机构，也是威斯康星州系统大学中最多样化的机构，让代表性不足的学生参与数学研究。新开发的以研究为重点的综合专业将纳入研究技能和道德的正式指导、写作和演讲技能的培训以及持续的本科研究经验。这一课程的重新设计允许学生将正在进行的研究整合到他们的学位中。 同时，它创造了机会，承认教师指导本科研究作为一种教学活动。调查人员将鼓励UW系统大学和其他机构采用UWEC和UWM合作模式，以增加代表性不足的群体进入STEM职业的机会，并积极发展更具包容性的环境。此外，该项目作为一个可持续的方式，以增加参与合作研究的本科生的数量，将研究纳入本科课程的模式。 本科生参与者将学习如何成功地做研究，建立必要的进行原创性研究和传播他们的成果的技能。这些技能包括演讲和写作，调查论文以寻找背景信息，通过同行指导与他人合作，以及启动和维护研究计划。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.