Collaborative proposal: Faculty and Undergraduate Research Student Teams (FURST)

合作提案：教师和本科生研究生团队（FURST）

• 批准号: 1620139
• 负责人: Alicia Prieto-Langarica
• 金额: $ 2.7万
• 依托单位: Youngstown State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2017
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2017-01-01 至 2018-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620139&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; proposal; Faculty; Undergraduate; Research

The Faculty and Undergraduate Research Student Teams (FURST) program brings together small research groups comprised of undergraduate students and faculty from primarily undergraduate institutions (PUI) in order to provide them with a year-long research experience. The program also provides a one month long intensive summer immersion for its participants at an established summer REU site at Fresno State. FURST students get an opportunity to participate in professional workshops, presentations and academic discussions along with the REU students, whereas FURST faculty can take advantage of an on-site, in-person research collaboration with their peers within the FURST program. The program's main goal is to foster both student and faculty research at PUIs, with the specific goal of producing student and faculty authored publications, as well as presentations. The program is designed to be inclusive and accessible to teams from institutions with varying research focus and support, in order to mitigate cultural changes at institutions which may not consider research a quintessential component of higher education.FURST students will be working on open problems in mathematics under the guidance of their faculty mentors. Research topics include community detection problems in networks, expanding the framework and analysis of the cop and robber game, the use of coarse Ricci curvature in data analysis and interpolation problems, the study and solution of the non-linear Riccati-Ermakov equation, as well as other non-linear dispersive partial differential equations. Strengthening their background in the selected research topic through readings and lecture at their home institutions will prepare FURST students to engage in research at the same speed as the REU students during the immersion phase. Students will be expected to submit the end product of their research for publication in a peer reviewed journal. FURST faculty will engage in solving open problems in their area of research while building collaborations with faculty at other institutions. Faculty are also expected to produce publishable work as a result of participating in the program. In accordance with the stated goals, the program will improve access to research for students at PUIs, where such opportunities are typically limited. It will also (re)-energize faculty at PUIs so that they remain active in research. By doing so, FURST will help transform the research culture at the participating institutions, especially since the bulk of the research activities will take place at FURST teams' home institutions. While FURST student participants will learn skills through the program that are invaluable in graduate school and in the scientific workplace, the program will broadly impact the students at the involved PUIs by demonstrating to them (through student talks and presentations) that research can be part of the undergraduate educational experience. Finally, through the immersion in an active REU site, FURST students will gain exposure to the workings of an REU program, and will be able to make better informed choices about applying to REU as a potential next step in their academic development.

教师和本科生研究学生团队（FURST）计划汇集了由本科生和教师组成的小型研究小组，主要来自本科院校（PUI），为他们提供为期一年的研究经验。该计划还提供了一个为期一个月的密集夏季沉浸在弗雷斯诺州的一个既定的夏季REU网站的参与者。FURST学生有机会与REU学生一起沿着参加专业研讨会，演讲和学术讨论，而FURST教师可以利用现场，亲自与FURST计划中的同行进行研究合作。该计划的主要目标是促进学生和教师在PUI的研究，与生产学生和教师撰写的出版物，以及演示文稿的具体目标。该计划旨在包容和访问来自不同研究重点和支持机构的团队，以减轻可能不认为研究是高等教育的本质组成部分的机构的文化变化。FURST学生将在他们的教师导师的指导下解决数学中的开放问题。研究课题包括网络中的社区检测问题，扩展警察和强盗游戏的框架和分析，在数据分析和插值问题中使用粗Ricci曲率，研究和解决非线性Riccati-Ermakov方程以及其他非线性色散偏微分方程。通过阅读和在他们的家乡机构讲座加强他们在选定的研究课题的背景将准备FURST学生在沉浸阶段以与REU学生相同的速度从事研究。学生将被要求提交他们的研究的最终产品在同行评审的期刊上发表。FURST教师将致力于解决他们研究领域的开放问题，同时与其他机构的教师建立合作。教师也有望产生可持续的工作作为参与该计划的结果。按照既定的目标，该计划将改善在PUI的学生，在这种机会通常是有限的研究访问。它也将（重新）激励教师在PUI，使他们保持积极的研究。通过这样做，FURST将有助于改变参与机构的研究文化，特别是因为大部分研究活动将在FURST团队的家乡机构进行。虽然FURST学生参与者将通过该计划学习在研究生院和科学工作场所中非常宝贵的技能，但该计划将通过向他们展示（通过学生讲座和演讲）研究可以广泛影响参与PUI的学生本科教育经验的一部分。最后，通过沉浸在一个活跃的REU网站，FURST学生将获得接触到一个REU程序的工作，并将能够作出更明智的选择申请REU作为他们的学术发展的潜在下一步。