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The national Center for Undergraduate Research in Mathematics (CURM) was established in 2006 with funding from NSF to promote academic year undergraduate research in the mathematical sciences by training faculty members as mentors for undergraduate research projects, having these faculty members mentor undergraduate students in small research groups that work during the academic year at their own institution, and preparing undergraduate students to succeed in graduate studies in mathematics.
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CURM has been funded by NSF grants DMS-0636648 and DMS-1148695 and by Brigham Young University.
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Dorff, M. (2013). CURM: Promoting Undergraduate Research in Mathematics. In: Rychtář, J., Gupta, S., Shivaji, R., Chhetri, M. (eds) Topics from the 8th Annual UNCG Regional Mathematics and Statistics Conference. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 64. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9332-7_1
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