Broadening Participation in Interdisciplinary Science: The REU Component of LA-STEM

该奖项授予共同研究人员Connie Stelly， Lisa Batiste-Evans, Saundra McGuire， Su-Seng Pang和Isiah Warner，每年将资助20名本科生，为期三年。这些学生工作的研究背景是广泛的多学科，并为一年级和二年级的本科生提供机会，在他们选择的24名教职员工的指导下进行研究项目，这些教职员工在生物、化学、化学工程、机械工程、计算科学、物理、天文学等部门都有活跃的研究项目。学生将从两个不同的池中抽取：NSF/LA-STEM研究学者和HHMI教授计划学者。NSF/LA-STEM项目是NSF -研究公司-路易斯安那州的联合合作项目，其总体任务是增加未被充分代表的学生在STEM学科中获得最终学位的人数。该项目以UMBC广受认可的Meyerhoff学者项目为蓝本，迄今为止，从众多本科生的学术成就来看，该项目取得了杰出的成果。将这些学生与那些作为HHMI教授项目学者支持的学生混合在一起，将带来一群非常优秀的同伴导师，以及HHMI项目所强调的本科培训方面。该奖项为本科生提供了一个独特的机会，让他们享受作为本科培训组成部分的研究经历。与学生们一起工作的老师们令人印象深刻，同样令人印象深刻的是pi和co - pi的名单，其中包括两位杰出科学、数学和工程指导总统奖获得者（Warner和Sang）。

This award to co-investigators Connie Stelly, Lisa Batiste-Evans, Saundra McGuire, Su-Seng Pang, and Isiah Warner will support twenty undergraduate research students each year for a period of three years. The research context in which these students will be working is broadly multidisciplinary and provides opportunities for first and second year undergraduates to pursue research projects under the tutelage of their choice of 24 faculty members with active research programs in departments ranging from biology to chemistry to chemical engineering to mechanical engineering to computational science to physics to astronomy and beyond. The students will be drawn from two diverse pools: The NSF/LA-STEM Research Scholars and the HHMI Professors Program Scholars. The NSF/LA-STEM program is a joint NSF - Research Corporation - State of Louisiana collaboration that has an overall mission of increasing the number of underrepresented students receiving terminal degrees in the STEM disciplines. It is modeled after the widely recognized Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UMBC and has, to date, produced outstanding results as measured by the scholastic achievement of a very diverse cadre of undergraduates. Co-mingling these students with those supported as HHMI Professors Program Scholars brings into the mix a group of quite good peer mentors, and aspect of undergraduate training emphasized in the HHMI program.This award provides a unique opportunity for undergraduates to enjoy research experiences as integral parts of their undergraduate training. The faculty with whom the students will work is an impressive lot and equally impressive is the list of PIs and Co-PIs, which includes two Presidential Awardees for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring (Warner and Sang).