The program was enriched by multiple campus partners, including UO Libraries, the Tutoring and Academic Engagement Center, and the Holden Center. Students engaged in coursework in the mornings, moved to research in the afternoon, and attend workshops on a variety of professional development and academic topics. Each summer session ends with poster presentations that showcase each student’s research project within the area of lingusitics.īaese-Berk said a key outcome of the first summer session was the sense of community students found with each other during their time at the UO. This summer’s program consisted of one week on Zoom and the remaining seven weeks on campus. “We are committed in doing our part to reduce these barriers, at least in our institution.” “This first iteration of the UO linguistics REU site has made tangible the systemic barriers that reduce access to STEM fields for many, including Native American and Alaska Native students,” Pérez Báez said. The program participants are students from institutions across the country without a linguistics departmentor or that lack expansive undergraduate research opportunities. Baese-Berk and Pérez Báez are leveraging students’ interests in their own Indigenous languages to teach them research skills they can use with many other disciplines.
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