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Abstract:
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The Statistics Undergraduate Mentoring (SUM) Project will demonstrate how four-year institutions can successfully recruit and mentor undergraduate and post-doctoral associates in statistics. The project goals are to increase the number of undergraduates from four-year colleges who attend graduate school in statistics and to increase the number of PhDs in statistics who pursue careers at four-year colleges. A Center for Interdisciplinary Research (CIR) was established where undergraduates, post-doctoral associates, and faculty mentors collaborate on statistical aspects of professional and undergraduate research with faculty and students from other departments on campus. Post-doctoral associates assist in running the CIR, teach a variety of undergraduate courses, work with students in inter-disciplinary research projects, and continue to develop their own research program.
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