REU Site: Computational Social Science

该项目由社会，行为和经济科学局（SBE）的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助，并由SBE的科学与创新科学（SciSIP）计划共同资助。该项目具有科学和社会效益，并整合了研究和教育。该奖项通过应用先进的计算（计算机）应用程序来促进社会科学发现的进步，以解决国家利益的问题，如个性分析（心理学），人际网络（社会学），家庭储蓄（经济学）以及平等和多样性的跨学科观点。 更广泛的影响将包括总统信息技术咨询委员会报告中确定的计算社会科学教育的重要进步和国家未来社会科学家的发展。该计划对代表性不足的群体的参与以及与高中生和国际研究同行互动的机会将对他们的专业STEM发展产生广泛的影响。该项目每年夏天将有10名学生参加，每个学生将在圣母大学与圣母大学和附近的圣玛丽学院的教师导师一起工作10周。该奖项更新了圣母大学研究计算中心（CRC）的REU网站; REU学生熟悉跨学科计算社会科学研究的理想环境。CRC提供了访问研究小组在各种各样的社会科学问题，包括（a）数据挖掘大规模的教育评估数据，（B）探索普及网络对社会关系的影响，（c）经济机会计划的有效性分析，以及（d）计算建模和全球社会动态分析。社会科学专业的学生将学习如何使用最新的网络基础设施工具，并接受基本科学计算技能和技术的培训。智力价值基于四个核心专业领域：计算心理学，计算社会学，计算经济学和社会科学的网络基础设施发展。该计划将使学生和教师参与者有机会在计算科学领域进行合作，跨学科研究。学生将成为跨学科团队的一部分，并将体验科学合作的回报。对于教师来说，REU计划提供了一个探索新的研究领域和形成新的合作的机会。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估的支持。

This project is funded from the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites program in the Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE) and is co-funded by SBE's Science of Science and Innovation (SciSIP) program. The project has both scientific and societal benefits and integrates research and education. This award promotes the progress of social science discoveries through the application of advanced computational (computer) applications to solve problems of national interest such as personality analysis (psychology), interpersonal networks (sociology), family savings (economics) and interdisciplinary perspectives on equality and diversity. Broader impacts will include the critical advancement of education in computational social science as identified in the Presidential Information Technology Advisory Committee report and development of the nation's future social scientists. The program's engagement of underrepresented groups and the opportunities for interaction with high school students and international research peers will have a broad impact in their professional STEM development. The program will involve 10 students every summer, and each will spend 10 weeks at the University of Notre Dame working alongside faculty mentors from the University of Notre Dame and nearby Saint Mary's College. This award renews an REU Site at the Center for Research Computing (CRC) at the University of Notre Dame; an ideal setting for the REU student to become familiar with interdisciplinary computational social science research. The CRC provides access to research groups working across a diverse range of social science problems including (a) Data Mining Large-scale Educational Assessment Data, (b) Explorations on the Effects of Pervasive Networking on Social Relationships, (c) Effectiveness Analysis for Economic Opportunity Programs, and (d) Computational Modeling and Analysis of Global Social Dynamics. The social science students will learn how to use the most current cyberinfrastructure tools and receive training on fundamental scientific computing skills and techniques. Intellectual merit is grounded in four core areas of expertise: computational psychology, computational sociology, computational economics, and cyberinfrastructure development for the social sciences. The program will give students and faculty participants a chance to carry out collaborative, interdisciplinary research in the computational sciences. Students will become part of an interdisciplinary team and will experience the rewards of scientific collaboration. For faculty, the REU program offers an opportunity to explore novel research areas and form new collaborations.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.