Collaborative Research: REU Site: STEM Research for Social Change

这项为期三年的合作项目名为“REU SITE：STEM Research for Social Change”，由代顿大学(UD)、中央州立大学(CSU)和圣玛丽大学之间的特别合作伙伴关系主办。这一合作的REU的目的是支持跨学科的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)研究，以实现积极的社会变革，支持联合国的可持续发展目标(SDGs)。这个REU的目标是科学和工程领域中代表性不足的少数族裔和边缘化的本科生，通过教师指导的研究，涉及三个机构，其使命的核心是社会正义。其中两个机构是少数族裔服务机构，一个是历史上的黑人学院和大学，另一个是西班牙裔服务机构，为财政支持有限的大学的教职员工提供联网和研究合作的机会。该项目将把STEM教职员工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、可持续发展以及产生新技术和网络等问题来推动社会转型。除了直接造福社会，这一合作的REU项目还将增加未被充分代表的少数族裔STEM学生在STEM领域的归属感，支持研究中的自我效能感，并增加他们在毕业期间的坚持性和保持性。这项为期三年的合作项目名为“REU SITE：STEM Research for Social Change”，由代顿大学(UD)、中央州立大学(CSU)和圣玛丽大学之间的特别合作伙伴关系主办。这一合作的REU的目的是支持跨学科的科学、技术、工程和数学(STEM)研究，以实现积极的社会变革，支持联合国的可持续发展目标(SDGs)。这个REU的目标是科学和工程领域中代表性不足的少数族裔和边缘化的本科生，通过教师指导的研究，涉及三个机构，其使命的核心是社会正义。其中两个机构是少数族裔服务机构，一个是历史上的黑人学院和大学，另一个是西班牙裔服务机构，为财政支持有限的大学的教职员工提供联网和研究合作的机会。REU旨在提高学生的科学和工程研究兴趣和技能，个人和专业认同的形成和网络，以及对STEM的归属感。该项目将展示和评估一个本科生研究计划模式，以有效地提高STEM边缘学生的留存率，以及他们继续研究生学习和教师职业生涯的速度。REU将保持和发展UD、CSU、STMU和社会变革组织教员之间现有的和发展新的跨学科研究合作，这将激励学生攻读研究生，同时为社会变革产生新的STEM知识、发现和技术。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

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.