REU Site: Lifespan Approaches to Diverse Psychological Science

该项目由SBE董事会的本科生研究经验（REU）网站计划资助。它具有科学和社会效益，并将研究和教育结合起来。杜克大学REU通过为代表性不足的学生提供真正独特的研究经验，促进科学的进步，使用跨生命周期和心理学三个主要领域的方法论方法相结合：发展，社会和认知神经科学。该REU通过在心理学研究的各个方面培训代表性不足的学生来支持教育和多样性。REU学生将与不同的研究学者团体合作，所有这些团体都致力于招募，培训和与代表性不足的群体进行研究。该REU的主要目标是为代表性不足的学生提供技能，社交，联系和连续性，他们需要开始发展一个独立的研究人员身份。在为期10周的REU期间，学生将获得进行实验和观察研究的实践经验，以及个性化的学术写作和研究生院申请准备会议。学生将参加每周的实验室会议，小组会议，各种专业发展培训，以及与他们的导师一对一的会议，除了与其他杜克本科生和教师见面。参加每周一次的研究谈话系列也将使学生接触到其他类型的心理科学方法和研究人员。学生还将有机会参加和/或出席国家专业会议。由于该计划的目标是加强代表性不足的学生的研究经验，以增加进入博士学位的多样化学生的数量。计划，来自代表性不足的背景，包括第一代学生身份的学生将得到优先考虑。通过这种经验，REU学生将获得他们在研究生院取得成功所需的技能和支持网络，同时增强和多样化心理科学沿着。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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 SBE Directorate. It has both scientific and societal benefits, and integrates research and education. The Lifespan Approaches to Diverse Psychological Science REU at Duke University promotes the progress of science by providing underrepresented students with truly unique research experiences using a combination of methodological approaches across the lifespan and across three main areas of psychology: Developmental, Social, and Cognitive Neuroscience. This REU supports education and diversity by training underrepresented students in every aspect of psychological research. REU students will work with diverse groups of research scholars, all committed to recruiting, training, and conducting research with underrepresented groups. The primary goal of this REU is to provide underrepresented students with the skills, socialization, connection, and continuity they need to begin developing a scholar-researcher identity. During this 10-week REU, students will get hands-on experience conducting experimental and observational research in addition to individually-tailored academic writing and graduate school application preparatory sessions. Students will participate in weekly lab meetings, small group meetings, various professional development trainings, and one-on-one sessions with their mentors in addition to meeting with other Duke undergraduates and faculty. Attendance at weekly research talk series will also expose students to other types of psychological science methods and researchers. Students will also have the opportunity to attend and/or present at national professional conferences. Since the program’s goal is to enhance underrepresented students’ research experiences to increase the number of diverse students who enter Ph.D. programs, students from underrepresented backgrounds inclusive of first-generation student status will be given priority consideration. Through this experience, REU students will gain the skills and support network they will need to succeed in graduate school, all while enhancing and diversifying psychological science along the way.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.