REU Site: Multidisciplinary Data Integration Training for Globally Engaged Undergraduates

REU 网站：面向全球本科生的多学科数据集成培训

• 批准号: 1559844
• 负责人: Seth Feinberg
• 金额: $ 33.59万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-03-01 至 2019-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1559844&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Multidisciplinary; Data; Integration

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the SBE Directorate. As such, it has both scientific and societal benefits, and it integrates research and education. This REU Site award to Western Washington University will support the training of 30 students over a 17-week program during the three years of program duration. Students will learn advanced statistical and demographic training in the social sciences, and apply their training to original research projects generated in collaboration with the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. The REU program provides an experience to undergraduate students that is typically not available to them at their home institutions. Students from primarily undergraduate colleges and universities and from underrepresented groups are encouraged to apply. The primary objective is to train social science undergraduates in research methodology in a cross-cultural and multi-disciplinary learning environment. This REU site helps social science students learn the basic concepts of good science, develop data management skills, collect original data, reach independent conclusions, mentor subsequent cohorts, and share their findings and data with professional audiences that could benefit from student research. This REU also provides a unique opportunity to contribute research findings to a nation's larger focus on health, capacity building, and economic advancement. Students work with the PIs, Rwandan colleagues, and the NISR staff to create and administer qualitative field interviews with stakeholders responsible for reproductive health. The research question to examine is whether there is variation in identified needs based on gender, age, region, education, and family status. Students also utilize existing quantitative data collected by the NISR staff in Kigali and learn how to document data in compliance with international standards. Student research contributes to studies on the differences in change in reproductive health indicators by region, urban/rural residence, education, and wealth. The REU Site participants explore additional questions utilizing NISR data, with a particular focus on child health and nutrition. The NSF Office of International Science and Engineering has co-funded this project.

该项目由SBE董事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。因此，它具有科学和社会效益，并整合了研究和教育。这个REU网站奖给西华盛顿大学将支持30名学生的培训超过17周的计划在三年的计划期限。学生将学习社会科学中的高级统计和人口培训，并将他们的培训应用于与卢旺达国家统计研究所合作产生的原始研究项目。 REU计划为本科生提供了一种体验，这种体验通常是他们在家乡机构无法获得的。鼓励主要来自本科院校和大学的学生以及代表性不足的群体申请。主要目标是在跨文化和多学科的学习环境中培养社会科学本科生的研究方法。这个REU网站帮助社会科学专业的学生学习良好科学的基本概念，发展数据管理技能，收集原始数据，得出独立的结论，指导随后的队列，并与专业观众分享他们的发现和数据，可以从学生的研究中受益。该REU还提供了一个独特的机会，为一个国家对健康，能力建设和经济发展的更大关注贡献研究成果。 学生与PI，卢旺达同事和NISR工作人员一起工作，与负责生殖健康的利益相关者进行定性实地访谈。研究的问题是，在确定的需求是否有差异的基础上，性别，年龄，地区，教育和家庭状况。学生还利用基加利NISR工作人员收集的现有定量数据，并学习如何按照国际标准记录数据。学生研究有助于研究生殖健康指标按地区、城市/农村居住地、教育和财富变化的差异。REU网站的参与者利用NISR数据探索其他问题，特别关注儿童健康和营养。NSF国际科学与工程办公室共同资助了这个项目。