ASA Connect

The American Statistical Association has received NSF funding to support Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) sites.

Proposals are due August 15, 2016, for faculty who want to conduct an ASA-coordinated REU Site during Summer 2017.

Each proposal should describe one or more projects for four students.  The students should be mostly chosen from other institutions (rather than from the investigator's own institution).

Funded proposals will engage students in all stages of the data analysis cycle, including: data verification, data cleaning, and data visualization, all the way to statistical modeling, prediction, and data mining/machine learning/computational statistics, as an integral part of their statistics research.

At least 2 faculty mentors are necessary for each project.  Projects with an interdisciplinary component are also encouraged.  Each REU Site must take place within a ten-week window, beginning May 15, 2017, and ending August 25, 2017.

Funded proposals will provide stipends for the REU students and for the faculty mentors.  Priority will be given to faculty who either (a) have a strong track record as a mentor with undergraduate student researchers in the past, and/or (b) have a strong track record of independent research and who are eager to begin working with undergraduate students.

Email reu@amstat.org with questions.

Recruitment should target (but not be limited to) women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.  Supported students must be U.S. citizens, nationals, or permanent residents.  This material is based upon work supported by the NSF under Grant No. DMS-1560332.