Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics

数学本科研究中心（CURM）在学年期间为本科研究课程提供资金和培训，这些课程是在两年制或社区学院与学士学位授予机构之间合作进行的。由CURM资助的教师接受培训，为早期职业学生提供包容性和脚手架研究指导，资助学年期间的研究活动和合作，以及学年本科研究制度化的模式。CURM还提供指导，制定一个强有力的建议CURM教师在赠款写作经验较少。智力上的优点包括对研究的贡献，在会议和研讨会上的演讲，以及在数学的多个子领域发表研究论文。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，以及在美国各地的数学教师中培养强大的研究和研究指导技能。CURM解决了以前确定的障碍，本科研究在两年制和社区学院。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。基于学分课程的研究机会有助于解决学生缺乏研究机会的意识，以及学生的工作量问题。机构间实践社区有助于解决学生缺乏认识、两年制大学生对四年制机构缺乏归属感以及学生进入两年制大学的时间短等问题。最后，在研究领域为教师提供培训，为早期职业学生提供丰富的研究项目选择，有助于解决教师对如何找到和有效指导适当研究项目的不确定性。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。该奖项反映了NSF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。

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.