A National Introductory Colloquium and Undergraduate Research Experience in Mathematical Biology

全国数学生物学入门研讨会和本科生研究经验

• 批准号: 1914741
• 负责人: Janet Best
• 金额: $ 7.46万
• 依托单位: Ohio State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2024-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1914741&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: National; Introductory; Colloquium; Undergraduate; Research

This program will provide virtual colloquia for students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) that include robust scientific discussions and interactions between the speaker and the students and between the students at the different HBCUs. Additionally, this proposal aims to impact both the students and the faculty members at HBCUs. By engaging the HBCU faculty members as partners in the project, the goal is to create pipelines for the HBCU students to graduate schools and to establish and enhance working relationships and networking between HBCU faculty members and faculty members at large research institutions. If these two innovative ideas are successful, they will have a broad impact. This research project emphasizes mathematical biology, but the same ideas should work in other branches of pure and applied mathematics, and in other scientific disciplines as well. In making the virtual colloquia as interactive as a classroom, the project will have created a template for faculty at other research universities to participate in and enhance the training of undergraduates at HBCUs, and that, in and of itself, will create pipelines from the HBCUs to the research institutions, both for students and for faculty. The methods and the template could then be used by other groups of mathematicians or scientists to enhance the training of students at the other HBCUs at low cost.The project has three goals: to encourage undergraduate students at the HBCUs to go to graduate school in the STEM disciplines; to connect faculty in analysis and mathematical biology at the HBCUs to faculty and research programs at The Ohio State University (OSU) and other large research institutions; to experiment with virtual colloquia and virtual teaching techniques in mathematics. Faculty members at six HBCUs will each recruit 2-3 students to participate in the year-long program that includes a meet-and-greet workshop at Howard University, where they will meet the PIs and some of the speakers and hear mathematical biology lectures. Through the academic year, the students receive 7 introductory colloquia in which the speakers sit in their home office and the broadband facilities of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute (MBI) are used to broadcast the colloquium simultaneously to the six HBCUs. The MBI facilities permit questions and answers and discussions in real time during the talk. Materials prepared by the speakers provide follow-up activities that will be mentored by the local faculty members. The year concludes with a 10-day workshop at OSU that will be both a research experience for the students and collaboration events for the faculty. For the students, there will be panel discussions on academic and non-academic jobs and graduate school. For faculty research engagement, ten mathematical biology faculty members at OSU, in addition to some speakers, have agreed to include an HBCU faculty member in their current research program.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该计划将为历史上黑人学院和大学（HBCU）的学生提供虚拟座谈会，其中包括演讲者与学生之间以及不同HBCU学生之间的强大科学讨论和互动。此外，该提案旨在影响HBCU的学生和教职员工。通过让HBCU教职员工作为该项目的合作伙伴，目标是为HBCU学生进入研究生院创建管道，并建立和加强HBCU教职员工与大型研究机构教职员工之间的工作关系和网络。如果这两个创新理念获得成功，将会产生广泛的影响。这个研究项目强调数学生物学，但同样的想法应该适用于纯数学和应用数学的其他分支，以及其他科学学科。在使虚拟座谈会像课堂一样互动的过程中，该项目将为其他研究型大学的教师创建一个模板，以参与和加强HBCU本科生的培训，并且，这本身将为学生和教师创建从HBCU到研究机构的管道。这些方法和模板可以被其他数学家或科学家团体用来以低成本加强对其他HBCU学生的培训。该项目有三个目标：鼓励HBCU的本科生进入STEM学科的研究生院;将HBCU的分析和数学生物学教师与俄亥俄州州立大学（OSU）的教师和研究项目联系起来和其他大型研究机构;在数学方面试验虚拟座谈会和虚拟教学技术。六个HBCU的教职员工将各自招募2-3名学生参加为期一年的计划，其中包括在霍华德大学举行的见面会研讨会，在那里他们将会见PI和一些演讲者，并听取数学生物学讲座。通过学年，学生收到7介绍座谈会，其中扬声器坐在他们的家庭办公室和数学生物科学研究所（MBI）的宽带设施被用来同时广播座谈会的六个HBCU。MBI设施允许在谈话过程中进行真实的问答和讨论。演讲者准备的材料提供了后续活动，这些活动将由当地教师指导。这一年在俄勒冈州立大学为期10天的研讨会结束，这将是学生的研究经验和教师的合作活动。对于学生来说，将有关于学术和非学术工作和研究生院的小组讨论。对于教师的研究参与，在俄勒冈州立大学的十名数学生物学教师，除了一些发言人，已同意包括HBCU教师在其目前的研究计划。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。