Conference: Southern California on Undergraduate Research, November 2005, Riverside, CA

这项提案要求NSF为南加州大学生研究会议（SCCUR，发音为“足球”）提供25,000美元的支持，该会议将于2005年11月19日在滨江的加州大学举行。本次会议提供了一个论坛，展示和讨论来自当地社区学院，公立和私立四年制院校的本科生以及来自少数高中的学生的最佳研究，奖学金和创造性工作。 演讲者展示了本科生研究经验（雷乌斯）（包括UCR植物细胞生物学REU网站），NIST夏季本科生研究奖学金以及由机构，基金会和学术机构赞助的许多其他机会的结果。 SCCUR每年吸引500多名学生参加。绝大多数学生的演讲都是在NSF支持的研究领域，特别是生物科学，社会/行为科学，物理科学，包括数学和化学，以及工程。2004年，来自106所院校的学生参加了这项活动，其中包括25所少数民族服务院校（24所西班牙裔服务院校和一所历史上的黑人学院）和24所社区学院。 该奖项将帮助SCCUR为来自不同社区和学术背景的学生和教师提供一个独特的机会，以满足和分享基于研究的发现的兴奋。 它开辟了个人和机构之间的沟通渠道，鼓励更多的学生参与研究活动，特别是那些来自代表性不足的社区的学生，在科学和工程领域进行更高层次的研究。加州大学滨江分校的活动尤为重要，因为它将首次在经济机会和大学入学率落后的南加州的一个地区举行。参加的学生，教师和家庭将看到一个种族多元化的校园，强烈支持本科生的研究机会。加州大学河滨分校将突出其研究优势，其中包括植物基因组学的前沿工作，并将提供植物细胞生物学中心和其他科学设施的图尔斯参观。 这笔赠款的具体目标是降低今年活动的入场费，使更多的学生能够参加。将特别强调增加社区大学和高中学生的参与。 资金还将支持活动的运营成本，并提供带回家的材料。 我们的目的是向两年制大学的学生和那些来自弱势背景的学生展示，如果他们保持对科学的兴趣，学士和研究生课程将热切欢迎他们。从长远来看，这些努力将有助于扩大科学和工程劳动力的多样性。

This proposal requests $25,000 in NSF support toward the Southern California Conference on Undergraduate Research (SCCUR, pronounced "soccer"), an annual event to be held at the University of California, Riverside on November 19, 2005. This conference provides a forum for presenting and discussing the best research, scholarship, and creative work of undergraduate students from local community colleges, public and private four-year institutions, as well as students from a few high schools. Presenters showcase results from Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) (including the REU Site for Plant Cell Biology at UCR), the NIST Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship, and many other opportunities sponsored by agencies, foundations, and academic institutions. SCCUR attracts more than 500 student participants per year. A significant majority of student presentations are in research fields supported by the NSF, notably the biological sciences, social/behavioral sciences, the physical sciences including math and chemistry, and engineering. In 2004, students from 106 institutions participated; these included 25 Minority-serving Institutions (24 Hispanic Serving and one Historically Black College), and 24 community colleges. This award will assist SCCUR in providing a unique opportunity for students and teachers from divergent communities and academic backgrounds to meet and share in the excitement of research-based discovery. It opens lines of communications among individuals and institutions that encourages more student activity in research, particularly those from underrepresented communities, to pursue higher studies in the sciences and engineering. The UC Riverside event is particularly important because it will be held for the first time in a part of Southern California that lags in economic opportunity and college matriculation rates. The students, faculty, and families who attend will see an ethnically diverse campus that strongly supports undergraduate research opportunities. UCR will highlight its research strengths, which include leading-edge work in plant genomics, and will offer tours of the Center for Plant Cell Biology and other science facilities. Specific goals of this grant are to buy down the cost of admission to this years event, which will enable more students to participate. Special emphasis will be directed at increasing community college and high school student participation. Funds also will support event operating costs and provide take-home materials. Our intent is to show students from two-year colleges and those from disadvantaged backgrounds that bachelor and graduate programs will eagerly welcome them if they maintain their interest in science. In the long term, these efforts will contribute in expanding the diversity of the science and engineering workforce.