REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Basic and Applied Science of Psychology

该项目由社会，行为和经济科学局（SBE）的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。除了整合研究和教育之外，它还具有科学和社会效益。巴鲁克学院的REU网站为就读巴鲁克学院、纽约市立大学内的学院或纽约大都市地区的其他教育机构的本科生提供心理科学方面的高级研究培训。巴鲁克学院和纽约市立大学一般拥有多元化的学生团体。虽然招聘是开放给任何符合NSF的本科生，这个计划的目的是增加少数民族，低收入，第一代大学生和残疾学生在科学心理学的代表性。具体而言，该计划（a）确定早期有前途的少数民族，残疾人和经济上处于不利地位的学生在纽约大都市地区，（B）准备REU学生心理学高级研究生培训，并最终在学术环境的职业生涯，（c）开发一个管道，提供一个人才和多样化的本科生池，成为未来的研究科学家，以及（d）增加心理科学家在心理研究中对文化和少数群体问题的了解。REU学生在各自的REU教师的监督下，在心理学的四个领域之一（即，临床、发展、工业/组织和社会）。每个学生都专注于规划和执行研究，目的是在专业会议上发表论文，并向同行评审期刊提交手稿。具体来说，REU学生开发的研究问题和假设是在文献中接地。为了回答这些新开发的研究问题和假设，REU学生设计研究协议和计划数据收集。REU学生通过实践经验学习统计分析的价值，使用统计软件对数据进行推断，以及传播研究结果的演示技巧。除了他们的研究项目的进行，REU学生完成一系列结构化的活动，旨在准备他们申请研究生院。这些活动，如参加专业发展研讨会和讲习班，参加心理学领域的座谈会，听取研究生项目招生官员的特邀演讲嘉宾，由巴鲁克学院REU计划协调。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为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来支持。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). It has both scientific and societal benefits in addition to integrating research and education. The REU site at Baruch College offers advanced research training in psychological science to undergraduate students who attend Baruch College, Colleges within the City University of New York, or other educational institutions in the New York metropolitan area. Baruch College and CUNY in general boast a diverse student body. Although the recruitment is open to any NSF eligible undergraduate students, this program is designed to increase the representation of minority, low-income, first-generation college students, and disabled students in scientific psychology. Specifically, the program plans to (a) identify early promising minority, disabled, and economically disadvantaged students in the New York metropolitan area, (b) prepare REU students for advanced graduate training in psychology and ultimately for careers in academic settings, (c) develop a pipeline to provide a pool of talented and diverse undergraduate students to become the research scientists of the future, and (d) increase psychological scientists exposure to cultural and minority issues in psychological research. REU Students in the program conduct independent research under the supervision of their respective REU faculty member in one of the four areas of psychology (i.e., clinical, developmental, industrial/organizational, and social). Each student focuses on planning and executing studies with the intention of presenting papers at professional conferences and submitting manuscripts to peer-reviewed journals. Specifically, REU students develop research questions and hypotheses that are grounded in the literature. In order to answer these newly developed research questions and hypotheses, REU students design research protocols and plan data collection. REU students learn via hands-on experience the value of statistical analysis, use of statistical software to draw inferences about the data, and presentation skills to disseminate the findings gained in their research. Alongside with the conduct of their research projects, REU students complete a series of structured activities aimed at preparing them to apply to graduate school. These activities, such as attending professional development seminars and workshops, participating at colloquium in the field of psychology, listening to invited guest speakers from graduate program admission officers, are coordinated by the Baruch College REU 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.