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）领域各类人才的全面参与，为解决基础科学和应用科学领域的问题和促进创造力带来了独特的视角和经验。进化人类学的多样性增加（IDEAS）项目是一项持续的倡议，旨在通过研究、培训、指导和合作机会，为来自STEM和人类学中代表性不足的群体的学生和教师培养生物人类学的多样化人才。作为一门研究活着的人类、非人类灵长类动物及其灭绝祖先的变异和进化的学科，并以研究人员为特色，从法医鉴定到人体工程学，再到了解气候对人类系统的影响，生物人类学吸引具有不同背景和观点的研究人员至关重要。目前的奖项建立和扩展了以前nsf支持的IDEAS项目活动，在此期间，超过100名学生和教师导师参与了该学科，并保留了新的研究人员。目前的项目通过成功的学生指导和与美国生物人类学家协会年会一起举行的外展计划，继续了IDEAS计划的倡议。该项目还在两个关键方面扩展了IDEAS计划的倡议：(1)每年在一个少数民族服务机构（MSI）或附近增加一个IDEAS研讨会；(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）。该项目还开发了更复杂的监测和评估策略，以了解该计划对规程的长期影响。本项目由生物人类学计划和促进竞争研究的既定计划（EPSCoR）共同资助。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值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.