REU Site: Quantitative Research in the Life and Social Sciences: an interdisciplinary and intergenerational REU experience

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。在一个高度由数据驱动的现代世界中，定量推理和定量素养变得越来越重要。生命与社会科学项目的定量研究（QRLSSP）是一个为期8周的本科生研究体验（REU）项目，每年夏天将接待12名学生。这个暑期项目将为本科生提供研究机会，涉及使用数学、统计学和数据分析中的定量工具解决生命科学和社会科学中的问题。该计划的结构独特，将学生选择的研究项目与应用数学和统计学中的问题结合起来，并应用于生命科学和社会科学。该项目将招募、培训和指导代表性不足的少数族裔学生、第一代学生，以及在小型、不授予博士学位的机构和社区学院就读的学生，这将有助于扩大攻读研究生学位和STEM职业的学生的参与度。学生将参加专业发展活动，该计划的结构是在reu后跟踪和支持学生参与者长达6年。学生将被训练提出他们感兴趣的研究问题，目的是自然地增加参与。该计划将使学生接触到具有广泛专业知识的导师，以加深对生物和社会科学中普遍问题的理解。学生还将接受训练，使用软件进行数学建模，以增强他们未来使用和研究的计算工具包。将鼓励参与者在各种会议上发表演讲，以提高演讲技巧，建立信心，并将他们的工作传播给更广泛的受众。该项目将让参与者接触到各种各样的成功的教师和研究人员，他们将作为榜样，并将为网络、社区建设和同伴支持提供机会。指导培训以及为新教师和研究生寻求加入学术界作为职业的机会将有助于改善STEM教育和教育工作者的发展。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并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，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). In a modern world highly driven by data, quantitative reasoning and quantitative literacy has become increasingly important. The Quantitative Research for the Life and Social Sciences Program (QRLSSP) is an 8-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program that will host 12 students each summer. This summer program will offer undergraduate research opportunities that involve solving problems in the life sciences and social sciences using quantitative tools from mathematics, statistics, and data analysis. The program is uniquely structured to incorporate student-selected research projects on problems that lie in applied mathematics and statistics, with applications to the life and social sciences. The program will recruit, train, and mentor underrepresented minority students, first generation students, and students enrolled at small, non-PhD-granting institutions and community colleges, which will help broaden the participation of students pursuing graduate degrees and STEM careers. The students will participate in professional development activities, and the program is structured to follow and support student participants for up to 6 years post-REU.Students will be trained to propose research questions that interest them, with the intention of naturally increasing engagement. The program will expose the students to mentors with a wide variety of expertise to develop a greater understanding of universal issues in the biological and social sciences. Students will also be trained to use software for mathematical modeling to enhance their computing toolkit for their future use and research. Participants will be encouraged to give presentations at a variety of conferences to improve presentation skills, build confidence, and disseminate their work to a broader audience. The program will expose participants to a diverse set of successful faculty and researchers who will serve as role models, and will provide opportunities for networking, community building, and peer support. Mentorship training and opportunities for new faculty and for graduate students seeking to join academia as a profession will help improve STEM education and educator development as well.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.