Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics

数学本科生研究中心

• 批准号: 2317453
• 负责人: Kathryn Leonard
• 金额: $ 153.51万
• 依托单位: Occidental College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-11-01 至 2028-10-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2317453&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Center; Undergraduate; Research; Mathematics

The Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) provides funding and training for undergraduate research courses during the academic year that are carried out in collaboration between a two-year or community college and a bachelor's-granting institution. Faculty members funded by CURM receive training in inclusive and scaffolded research mentoring for early-career students, funding to support research activities and collaboration during the academic year, and models for institutionalizing academic year undergraduate research. CURM also provides mentorship for developing a strong proposal to CURM for faculty with less experience in grant writing. Intellectual merits include contributions to research, presentations at conferences and workshops, and publishing research papers in multiple subfields of mathematics. Broader impacts include early exposure for students to the high impact practice of research, increasing transfer rates for two year and community college students, and development of strong research and research mentoring skills in mathematics faculty across the US. CURM addresses previously identified barriers to undergraduate research at 2-year and community colleges. Providing funding for faculty helps address high teaching loads and lack of travel funding. Credit-bearing course-based research opportunities help address lack of student awareness of research opportunities, and also student workload issues. Inter-institutional communities of practice help address lack of student awareness, lack of sense of belonging at 4-year institutions for 2-year college students, and the short time students may be enrolled at 2-year colleges. Finally, training for faculty in research areas with rich selections of research projects for early career students helps address faculty uncertainty about how to find and effectively mentor an appropriate research project. We will offer a research immersion experience for faculty in those research areas, including data science, graph theory, mathematical modeling, and mathematics education. Doing so will also increase the research expertise in participating institutions.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.

本科数学研究中心（CURM）在学年期间为两年制或社区学院与学士学位授予机构合作开展的本科研究课程提供资金和培训。由CURM资助的教职员工接受培训，包括为早期职业学生提供包容性和框架式的研究指导，资助学年期间的研究活动和合作，以及将学年本科生研究制度化的模式。CURM还为那些在基金写作方面经验较少的教师提供指导，帮助他们向CURM提交一份强有力的提案。智力价值包括对研究的贡献，在会议和研讨会上的演讲，以及在多个数学分支领域发表研究论文。更广泛的影响包括让学生尽早接触到高影响力的研究实践，提高两年制和社区大学学生的转学率，以及在美国数学教师中培养强大的研究和研究指导技能。CURM解决了之前确定的两年制和社区学院本科生研究的障碍。为教师提供资金有助于解决高教学负担和缺乏旅行资金的问题。以学分为基础的课程研究机会有助于解决学生对研究机会缺乏认识的问题，以及学生工作量问题。校际实践社区有助于解决学生缺乏意识，缺乏归属感的问题，在四年制的大学里，两年制的学生，短时间的学生可能被两年制的大学录取。最后，在研究领域对教师进行培训，为早期职业学生提供丰富的研究项目选择，有助于解决教师在如何找到并有效指导合适的研究项目方面的不确定性。我们将为这些研究领域的教师提供研究沉浸式体验，包括数据科学、图论、数学建模和数学教育。这样做还将增加参与机构的研究专长。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。