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SMA SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities |
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| Initial Amendment Date: | August 29, 2018 |
| Latest Amendment Date: | September 18, 2020 |
| Award Number: | 1757785 |
| Award Instrument: | Continuing Grant |
| Program Manager: |
Josie Welkom Miranda
jwmirand@nsf.gov (703)292-7376 SMA SBE Office of Multidisciplinary Activities SBE Directorate for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences |
| Start Date: | September 1, 2018 |
| End Date: | August 31, 2021 (Estimated) |
| Total Intended Award Amount: | $288,941.00 |
| Total Awarded Amount to Date: | $288,941.00 |
| Funds Obligated to Date: |
FY 2019 = $107,291.00 FY 2020 = $66,947.00 |
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| Recipient Sponsored Research Office: |
21 N PARK ST STE 6301 MADISON WI US 53715-1218 (608)262-3822 |
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21 N Park St, Suite 6401 Madison WI US 53715-1218 |
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| NSF Program(s): |
RSCH EXPER FOR UNDERGRAD SITES, SCIENCE RESOURCES STATISTICS |
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01001920DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT 01002021DB NSF RESEARCH & RELATED ACTIVIT |
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| Award Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Fund Agency Code: | 4900 |
| Assistance Listing Number(s): | 47.075 |
ABSTRACT
This award was provided as part of NSF's Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program and is also supported by SBE's National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES). It has both scientific and societal benefits, and integrates research and education. The explicit motivation for this REU program is to address the well-documented achievement gap whereby members of underrepresented populations, racial and ethnic minorities, low-income, and first-generation college students: (1) apply to PhD programs in psychology and neuroscience and (2) successfully complete their doctoral training, in proportions far lower than their representation in the overall population. The Psychology Research Experience Program (PREP) at the Department of Psychology of the University of Wisconsin, Madison provides intensive mentoring and experience in scientific research and in professional development to undergraduates who have expressed and demonstrated an interest in a career in scientific psychology. The intellectual focus for PREP is integrating principles and methods of data science into the study of psychology and neuroscience. This focus reflects in all branches of science relating to behavior, including data mining and meta analysis, large-scale collection of data, and the increasing appreciation that individual data sets can constitute, "big data" which methods from machine learning and other branches of engineering can be applied. PREP's combination of a mentored research experience, training in the tools of data science, and professional development and networking, is designed to equip its participating students with the skills that are necessary for a successful career in STEM. Thus, it will broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in STEM-related careers.
PREP features a balance of mentored laboratory research and a curriculum of scientific instruction, professional development, and networking opportunities. Each PREP student is paired with a professor whose research falls into one or more of these domains of psychology research: Biological, Clinical, Cognition and Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental, and Social. Tiered mentorship includes graduate student or postdoctoral fellow from the host lab, as well as by a graduate student in the Department of Computer Science or the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. These PREP research mentors, themselves, participate in a weekly mentor training workshop. In addition to its primary goal of broadening participation in STEM-related careers, PREP contributes quantitative and qualitative survey research to the Student Assessment of their Learning Gains (SALG) instrument to improve teaching and mentoring in the STEM disciplines.
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.
PROJECT OUTCOMES REPORT
Disclaimer
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Under Federal Award ID: 1757785, REU Site: Psychology Research Experience Program (PREP) provided immersive mentored research experiences, plus training in methods of data science and in professional development, to 24 undergraduates (7 in 2019; 8 in 2020; and 9 in 2021) from groups historically underrepresented in academic psychology: underrepresented minority groups, low-income, and/or first-generation college students. Due to the global pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 programs were carried out remotely. The titles of the research projects were: [2019] "How children and adults update vocal emotioncategories;" "A novel training program to improve children’srating of facial emotion intensity;" "Children’s Multicultural Literature: A ContentAnalysis;" "What It Is and What We Can Be: Using Social Norms to Influence Intergroup Attitudes and Behaviors;" "Social support, strain and the aging brain;" "Individual differences in perceptual adaptation,perceptuo-motor adaptation, and perceptual learning;" "Machine-assisted prediction of alcohol use disorderseverity from Facebook;" [2020] "How White People Engage in Racial Allyship with the Black Community;" "Predicting transphobia: A replication and extension study;" "Predicting Intergroup Attitudes and Behaviors from Peer Descriptive Norms;" "The relationship between emotion-modulated eyeblinkstartle magnitude, anxiety, and emotional memory acrossthe lifespan;" "Incorporating Interventions in Intelligent Tutoring Systems to Enhance Conceptual Knowledge of Mathematics; " "Investigating multiple representations of simple and ratiomagnitudes;" "Explaining Misinformation Through the Lens of Bayesian Cue Combination;" "The Gender (Im)Balance in Citations in the Cognitive Neuroscience Literature;" [2021] "Sexual Assault Resistance Strategies, Blame and Mental Health Outcomes;" "Examining Sex Differences in Childhood Trauma and Recidivism; "Learning Mechanisms and Emotion ConceptDevelopment;" "Childhood unpredictability and the development of impulsivity;" "Polygenic Scores for ADHD and the Role of Parenting for Black and White Youth;" "Manipulations of animacy affect item and ordermemory in sentence-like lists;" "The effect of direct color-concept associations oninterpretations of colormap information visualizations;" "Motivation to be Anti-Racist: An Exploratory Study;" and "Parents' Perceptions of Children’s Gender Bias."
Last Modified: 09/06/2021
Modified by: Bradley Postle
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