REU Site: Computational Biology Research - Gateway to STEM

这个REU网站奖给普林斯顿大学在普林斯顿，新泽西州，将支持六个以前被监禁的学生在2021年和2022年夏天九周的培训。该网站为数学课程成绩优异的非STEM专业学生提供了深入的科学思维。学生将学习如何进行研究，其道德，其在社会中的作用，以及如何口头和书面提出他们的结果。该计划的评估将使用在线SALG URSSA工具。学员将在课程结束后进行跟踪，以确定他们的职业道路。计算研究方法植根于数学;而生物学就在我们身边，是人类求知欲的自然主题。项目将跨越许多部门和教师导师。接触STEM教育和职业的回报和好处，以及科学，生物学和社区生活之间的联系，可能会导致一些学员考虑STEM专业。STEM教育为以前被监禁的学生提供高水平的劳动力准备，使他们成为有价值的员工，为美国的经济成功做出贡献，成为受人尊敬的社会成员，并为他们的家庭开辟更有价值的未来。对以前被监禁的学生进行STEM教育有可能使STEM劳动力多样化;带来可能丰富就业实践的新见解;并将可能传播到整个社会的工作场所观点。所有参与者都将成为更加知情的公民，提高识别和解释事实的能力，并跨越学科和经验的界限进行沟通。该网站利用并扩展了普林斯顿大学长期以来的志愿者努力，包括向被监禁的学生教授社区大学认证的STEM课程，并与重返社会的专业人士合作，以促进新泽西以前被监禁学生的教育。在这个试点的第一年，该网站将接受来自当地重返合作伙伴的学生，同时在全国建立新的合作伙伴关系。监禁的人口统计学意味着大多数受训人员将来自代表性不足的群体，而且以前没有研究经验。更多信息、研究描述和申请可在https://vonholdt.princeton.edu/REU.html或PI（Bridgett vonHoldt博士，vonholdt@Princeton.EDU）或联合PI（Jannette Carey博士，jcarey@princeton.edu）获得。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得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来支持。

This REU Site award to Princeton University in Princeton, NJ, will support the training of six formerly incarcerated students for nine weeks during summers of 2021 and 2022. The Site offers intensive exposure to scientific thinking for non-STEM majors with excellent grades in mathematics coursework. Students will learn how research is conducted, its ethics, its roles in society, and how to present their results orally and in writing. Assessment of the program will use the online SALG URSSA tool. Trainees will be tracked after the program to determine their career paths. Computational research approaches are rooted in mathematics; and biology, being all around us, is a natural subject of human intellectual curiosity. Projects will span many departments and faculty mentors. Exposure to the rewards and benefits of STEM education and careers, and to the connections among science, biology, and the lives of their communities, may lead some trainees to consider a STEM major. STEM education offers high-level workforce readiness for formerly incarcerated students, enabling them to be valued employees who contribute to American economic success and become respected members of society, and opening paths to more rewarding futures for their families. STEM education of formerly incarcerated students has the potential to diversify the STEM workforce; bring new insights that may enrich employment practice; and bring to the workplace perspectives that may spread to the society at large. All participants will become more informed citizens with enhanced ability to identify and interpret facts and communicate across disciplinary and experiential boundaries. The Site leverages and extends a long-standing volunteer effort at Princeton University that includes teaching of community college-accredited STEM courses to incarcerated students and cooperating with reentry professionals to advance the education of formerly incarcerated students in New Jersey. In year one of this pilot, the Site will accept students from local reentry partners while establishing new partnerships nationwide. The demographics of incarceration mean that most trainees will be from under-represented groups and have no prior research experience. More information, research descriptions, and applications are available at https://vonholdt.princeton.edu/REU.html or from the PI (Dr. Bridgett vonHoldt, vonholdt@Princeton.EDU) or co-PI (Dr. Jannette Carey, jcarey@princeton.edu).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.