Collaborative Research: The Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (IDEAS) Program

研究表明，科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)的各种人才的参与带来了解决问题的独特视角和经验，并促进了基础科学和应用科学的创造力。进化人类学日益多样化(IDEAS)计划是一项持续的计划，旨在通过研究、培训、指导和合作机会，为STEM和人类学中代表性较低的群体的学生和教职员工培养生物人类学方面的多样化人才。作为一门研究活着的人类、非人类灵长类动物及其灭绝的祖先的变异和进化的学科，并以研究人员为特色，他们在从法医鉴定到人类工效学到理解气候对人类系统的影响等方方面面提供见解，生物人类学吸引具有不同背景和视角的研究人员至关重要。目前的奖项是在之前NSF资助的IDEAS计划活动的基础上建立和扩大的，在此期间，超过100名学生和教师导师参加了该学科，并保留了新的研究人员。当前的项目通过与美国生物人类学家协会年会一起举行的成功的学生指导和推广计划来继续IDEAS计划的倡议。该项目还以两种主要方式扩展了IDEAS计划倡议：(1)每年在一个少数民族服务机构(MSI)或其附近增加一个IDEAS研讨会，以及(2)将指导和社区建设扩展到学术生命周期的更高级阶段(即博士后)。该项目还制定了更复杂的监测和评估战略，以了解这一倡议对该学科的长期影响。该项目由生物人类学项目和既定的激励竞争性研究项目(EPSCoR)共同资助。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

Research shows that participation of the full spectrum of diverse talent in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) brings unique perspectives and experiences that solve problems and promote creativity in basic and applied sciences. The Increasing Diversity in Evolutionary Anthropological Sciences (IDEAS) program is a continuing initiative to build diverse talent in biological anthropology through research, training, mentorship and collaboration opportunities for students and faculty from groups underrepresented in STEM and anthropology. As a discipline that studies the variation and evolution of living humans, non-human primates and their extinct ancestors, and features researchers who provide insights on everything from forensic identification to human ergonomics to understanding climate influences on human systems, it is critical that biological anthropology attract researchers with diverse backgrounds and perspectives. The current award builds and expands on previous NSF-supported IDEAS program activities, during which over 100 students and faculty mentors participated and new researchers were retained in the discipline.The current project continues the IDEAS Program initiative through the successful student mentoring and outreach program that is held in conjunction with the American Association of Biological Anthropologists annual meeting. The project also expands the IDEAS Program initiative in two key ways: (1) adding an IDEAS Workshop at, or near, one Minority Serving Institution (MSI) annually, and (2) extending mentorship and community building into more advanced stages of the academic life cycle (i.e., post-PhD). The project also develops more sophisticated monitoring and evaluation strategies to understand this initiative’s longer-term impacts on the discipline. This project is jointly funded by the Biological Anthropology program and the Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).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.