Collaborative Research: REU Site: STEM Research for Social Change

这个为期三年的合作项目题为“REU网站：STEM研究社会变革”是通过代顿大学（UD），中央州立大学（CSU）和圣玛丽玛丽大学之间的特殊伙伴关系主办。该合作REU的目的是支持跨学科的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）研究，以促进积极的社会变革，支持联合国的可持续发展目标（SDG）。该REU针对科学和工程领域代表性不足的少数民族和边缘化本科生，通过三个机构的教师指导研究，以社会正义为核心。其中两个机构是少数民族服务，一个历史上的黑人学院和大学和一个西班牙裔服务机构，并提供机会，为教师在大学的网络和研究合作有限的财政支持。该项目将把STEM教师和学生研究人员与社会变革组织联合起来，通过解决清洁水和清洁能源、可持续性以及产生新技术和网络等问题来推动社会转型。除了对社会的直接利益，这个合作REU项目将增加代表性不足的少数STEM学生在STEM领域的归属感，支持研究中的自我效能，并通过毕业提高他们的持久性和保留。 这个为期三年的合作项目题为“REU网站：STEM研究社会变革”是通过代顿大学（UD），中央州立大学（CSU）和圣玛丽玛丽大学之间的特殊伙伴关系主办。该合作REU的目的是支持跨学科的科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）研究，以促进积极的社会变革，支持联合国的可持续发展目标（SDG）。该REU针对科学和工程领域代表性不足的少数民族和边缘化本科生，通过三个机构的教师指导研究，以社会正义为核心。其中两个机构是少数民族服务，一个历史上的黑人学院和大学和一个西班牙裔服务机构，并提供机会，为教师在大学的网络和研究合作有限的财政支持。REU旨在提高学生的科学和工程研究兴趣和技能、个人和职业身份形成和网络以及STEM的归属感。该项目将展示和评估一个本科研究项目模型，以有效提高边缘化学生在STEM的保留率，以及他们追求研究生学习和教师职业的速度。 该REU将维持现有的，并在UD，CSU，StMU和社会变革组织，这将激励学生追求研究生院，同时产生新的STEM知识，发现，教师之间发展新的跨学科研究合作。该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

This three-year collaborative project entitled “REU Site: STEM Research for Social Change” is hosted through a special partnership among the University of Dayton (UD), Central State University (CSU), and St. Mary’s University. The purpose of this collaborative REU is to support interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) research for positive social change, in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This REU targets underrepresented minority and marginalized undergraduate students in science and engineering fields through faculty-mentored research across three institutions with social justice at the core of their missions. Two of these institutions are minority serving, a Historically Black College and University and a Hispanic Serving Institution and offer opportunities for networking and research collaboration for faculty members at universities with limited financial support. The project will unite STEM faculty and student researchers with social change organizations to advance societal transformation through addressing issues such as clean water and clean energy, sustainability, and generating new technologies and networks. In addition to direct benefits to society, this collaborative REU project will increase underrepresented minority STEM students' sense of belonging in STEM fields, support self-efficacy in research, and increase their persistence and retention through graduation. This three-year collaborative project entitled “REU Site: STEM Research for Social Change” is hosted through a special partnership among the University of Dayton (UD), Central State University (CSU), and St. Mary’s University. The purpose of this collaborative REU is to support interdisciplinary science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) research for positive social change, in support of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This REU targets underrepresented minority and marginalized undergraduate students in science and engineering fields through faculty-mentored research across three institutions with social justice at the core of their missions. Two of these institutions are minority serving, a Historically Black College and University and a Hispanic Serving Institution and offer opportunities for networking and research collaboration for faculty members at universities with limited financial support. The REU is designed to enhance the students’ science and engineering research interests and skills, personal and professional identity formation and networks, and sense of belonging in STEM. This project will demonstrate and assess an undergraduate research program model for effectively increasing the retention of marginalized students in STEM, and the rate at which they pursue graduate studies and faculty careers. The REU will sustain existing and develop new interdisciplinary research collaborations between faculty at UD, CSU, StMU, and social change organizations, which will inspire students to pursue graduate school while generating new STEM knowledge, discovery, and technologies for social change.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.