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: 1620552
• 负责人: Erin Pearse
• 金额: $ 4.9万
• 依托单位: California Polytechnic State University Foundation
• 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 2019-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1620552&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.

学院和本科生研究型学生团队(FURST)计划将主要由本科院校(PUI)的本科生和教职员工组成的小型研究小组聚集在一起，为他们提供为期一年的研究经验。该计划还为其参与者在弗雷斯诺州立大学建立的夏季REU地点提供了为期一个月的密集夏季沉浸。FURST的学生有机会与REU的学生一起参加专业研讨会、演讲和学术讨论，而FURST的教职员工可以在FURST项目中与同行进行现场、面对面的研究合作。该项目的主要目标是在PUIS促进学生和教师的研究，具体目标是制作学生和教师撰写的出版物和演示文稿。该计划旨在包容和访问来自不同研究重点和支持的机构的团队，以缓解那些可能不认为研究是高等教育的典型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。研究主题包括网络中的社区检测问题，扩展的COP和ROBER博弈的框架和分析，在数据分析和内插问题中使用粗Ricci曲率，非线性Riccati-Ermakov方程的研究和求解，以及其他非线性色散偏微分方程。通过在本国机构阅读和讲课来加强他们在选定研究主题方面的背景，将使FERST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研究的最终产品，并在同行评议的期刊上发表。FERST教员将致力于解决他们研究领域的公开问题，同时与其他机构的教员建立合作关系。作为参与该计划的结果，教职员工也将制作出可发表的作品。根据规定的目标，该计划将改善PUIS学生获得研究的机会，那里的这种机会通常是有限的。它还将(重新)激励PUI的教职员工，使他们在研究中保持活跃。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团队的主场机构进行。虽然FERST学生参与者将通过该项目学习在研究生院和科学工作场所非常宝贵的技能，但该项目将通过向学生展示(通过学生演讲和演讲)向他们展示研究可以成为本科教育经验的一部分，从而广泛影响相关PUI的学生。最后，通过沉浸在一个活跃的REU网站上，FURST学生将接触到REU项目的运作方式，并将能够就申请REU作为其学术发展的下一步做出更明智的选择。