REU Site: Engagement in the Basic and Applied Science of Psychology: Research Experience for Undergraduates at Baruch College, City University of New York

该项目是巴鲁克学院先前资助的NSF-REU项目的延续。以前和目前的REU计划已经成功地提高了来自代表性不足群体的个人的研究生入学率。该计划是一个模式，为学生提供研究经验，从代表性不足的群体参加城市大学和学院。智力优点：在巴鲁克学院的REU网站提供先进的研究培训，以12名本科生谁参加巴鲁克学院和其他教育机构在纽约大都市地区每学年为期三年。每个REU学生加入一个REU教员的研究团队，并在该教员的监督下进行独立的研究，该教员在一个与学生相匹配的领域工作？s表达的兴趣（例如，社会心理学，工业/组织心理学，发展心理学，睡眠心理学，保护心理学）。每个学生专注于心理学的一个领域，回顾文献，计划和设计研究项目，并执行研究，目的是在专业会议上发表论文，并向高质量的同行评审期刊提交手稿。学生学习统计分析的价值，并熟悉使用计算机程序来描述和从数据中得出推论。学生还可以获得研究传播和演示艺术的经验。每个学生的研究结果在巴鲁克REU会议上发表，并可能在国家或地区会议和同行评审期刊上发表。REU学生完成一系列结构化的学习活动，旨在为心理学研究的各个阶段和研究生院的申请过程做好准备。更广泛的影响：来自NSF和美国心理协会的统计数据表明，非洲裔美国人，西班牙裔美国人，亚裔美国人和印第安人在心理学领域的代表性仍然不足。该计划旨在增加少数民族，低收入和第一代大学生在科学心理学中的代表性。具体来说，该程序执行以下操作：1）为学生准备心理学的高级研究生培训，并最终在学术和应用环境中的职业生涯，2）在整个纽约大都市地区识别早期有前途的少数民族和经济困难的学生，并为他们在科学心理学的职业生涯做好准备，3）培养一批有才华和多样化的本科生，使他们成为未来的研究科学家，4）帮助这些年轻的科学家与该领域的其他学生和专业人士建立联系，5）通过了解REU学生的背景和经历，提高心理科学家对心理学研究中文化和少数民族问题的认识。

This project is the continuation of a previously funded NSF-REU program at Baruch College. The previous and current REU programs have been successful at enhancing the graduate school enrollment of individuals from underrepresented groups. The program serves as a model for offering research experiences to students from underrepresented groups attending urban universities and colleges.Intellectual Merit:The REU site at Baruch College offers advanced research training to 12 undergraduate students who attend Baruch College and other educational institutions in the New York metropolitan area each academic year for a three-year period. Each REU student joins an REU faculty member's research team and conduct independent research under the supervision of that faculty member working in an area that matches the student?s expressed interests (e.g., social psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, developmental psychology, sleep psychology, conservation psychology).Each student focuses on one area of psychology, review the literature, plan and design research projects and execute studies with the intention of presenting papers at professional conferences and submitting manuscripts to quality peer-reviewed journals. Students learn the value of statistical analyses and become comfortable with the use of computer programs for describing and drawing inferences from data. Students also gain experience in the art of research dissemination and presentation. The results of each student's research are presented at the Baruch REU conference and potentially at national or regional conferences and in peer-reviewed journals. REU students complete a series of structured learning activities aimed at preparing them for all stages of psychological research and for the graduate school application process.Broader Impacts:Statistics from the NSF and the American Psychological Association indicate continued under- representation of African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans in the field of psychology. This program is designed to increase the representation of minority, low-income and first generation college students in scientific psychology. Specifically, the program does the following: 1) prepare students for advanced graduate training in psychology and ultimately for careers in academic and applied settings, 2) identify early promising minority and economically disadvantaged students throughout the New York metropolitan area and prepare them for careers in scientific psychology, 3) develop a pool of talented and diverse undergraduate students to become the research scientists of the future, 4) help these young scientists develop affiliations with other students and professionals in the field, and 5) increase psychological scientists' awareness of cultural and minority issues in psychological research through exposure to the backgrounds and experience of the REU students.