Collaborative Research: AIM & ICERM Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF)

让更多的美国人获得科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域的本科和研究生学位，对提高美国的创新能力非常重要。本科生参与研究可以提高STEM专业的保留率，并鼓励学生攻读研究生学位。专注于本科教育的学院和大学的教师对这一使命至关重要，但在许多情况下，这些教师在与他们所教的学生一起做研究或继续自己的研究方面得到的支持很少，博士课程往往不能培养他们的毕业生来指导本科生的研究。为了满足这一国家需求，美国数学研究所（AIM）和数学计算与实验研究所（ICERM）将在2016年、2017年、2018年和2019年的夏季举办一系列四届年度本科教师研究经验（REUF）研讨会。每个REUF研讨会和正在进行的活动将为本科院校的一组新的教师参与者提供研究支持有限的研究经验，研究数学科学中的开放性问题，并使他们能够与本国院校的本科生一起进行研究。在每个REUF研讨会上，四位有与本科生一起做研究经验的高级数学家（领导者）将在各个领域提出问题，之后参与者和领导者将分成小组并解决问题；工作坊将以每个项目的小组报告结束。大部分时间将花在研究上，但也会有整个小组讨论，比如由（共同）首席研究员领导的本科研究的最佳实践，他们也每天与领导会面。有机会继续在研讨会上开始的项目工作，一些参与者将与研讨会上的其他教师进行长期研究合作。REUF的招聘工作将针对本科学院和大学的教师，这些学院和大学的学生中有很大一部分是代表性不足的少数民族学生、残疾人或第一代大学生，以及本身代表性不足或有残疾的教师。REUF项目将为参与的教师的学生带来更多更好的本科研究经验，并使参与的教师更多地参与数学研究，从而扩大和多样化数学劳动力。

Enabling more Americans to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) is important to improving American innovation capabilities. Participating in research as undergraduates improves retention in STEM majors and encourages students to pursue graduate degrees. Faculty at colleges and universities that focus on undergraduate education are critical to this mission, yet in many cases such faculty receive little support to do research with the students they teach or continue their own research, and doctoral programs often fail to train their graduates to mentor undergraduate research. To address this national need, the American Institute of Mathematics (AIM) and the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM) will conduct a series of four annual Research Experiences for Undergraduate Faculty (REUF) workshops during the summers of 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2019. Each REUF workshop and ongoing activities will provide a new group of faculty participants at undergraduate institutions that have limited research support with a research experience investigating open questions in the mathematical sciences and equip them to engage in research with undergraduate students at their home institutions. At each REUF workshop four senior mathematicians (leaders) who have experience doing research with undergraduate students will present problems in a variety of areas, after which the participants and leaders will divide into groups and work on the problems; the workshop will conclude with group presentations of each project. Most of the time will be spent doing research, but there will also be whole group discussions about topics such as best practices in undergraduate research led by the (co)-principal investigators, who also meet daily with the leaders. There are opportunities to continue work on the projects started in the workshop, and some participants will become involved in long-term research collaborations with other faculty at the workshop. The recruitment efforts for REUF will target faculty at undergraduate colleges and universities that serve a large proportion of students who are underrepresented minorities, person with disabilities, or first generation college students, as well as faculty who are themselves underrepresented or have disabilities. The REUF project will lead to more and better undergraduate research experiences for the students of the faculty participants, and greater engagement in mathematical research by the faculty participants, thus expanding and diversifying the mathematical workforce.