REU: Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Students in Laboratory and Space Physics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

这笔赠款将为本科生提供机会，使他们能够积极参与实验室和空间物理学研究。这些机会包括美国航天局实验室的高技术环境的特殊优势，并由致力于教育的研究人员提供指导。该研究小组从事实验和理论核物理研究，探测器开发和高能太阳耀斑调查。这个实验室测量，观察，分析和解释的平衡计划专注于解决有关负责高能粒子加速，约束和运输机制的基本物理性质的问题。主要团队成员都与美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心，该机构将是REU网站提供拟议的研究环境，美国天主教大学，通过该机构的学生将被雇用。在上述领域的九个具体的研究课题是适合本科生参与可用。自1983年以来，已有20名本科生在该小组工作。十名获得学士学位的学生中有八人攻读了科学和数学的高级学位。这将为学生的参与提供一个更坚实的基础，并将提供机会，积极招募来自更广泛背景的学生，特别是来自科学界代表性不足的群体的学生。

This grant will provide opportunities for undergraduates to be active participants in laboratory and space physics research. These opportunities include the special advantages of a high- technology environment in a NASA laboratory with guidance provided by researchers who are, in addition, committed to education. The research team is engaged in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics studies, detector development, and high-energy solar flare investigations. This balanced program of laboratory measurements, observations, analysis, and interpretation is focused on addressing questions about the fundamental physical nature of mechanisms responsible for energetic particle acceleration, confinement, and transport. The key team members are each associated with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the institution will be the REU Site providing the proposed research environment, The Catholic University of America, the institution through which the students will be employed. Nine specific research topics in the aforementioned fields that are appropriate for undergraduate participation are available. Twenty undergraduates have worked with the group since 1983. Eight of the ten with baccalaureates have pursued advanced degrees in the sciences and in mathematics. This will provide a firmer foundation on which to base student involvement and will provide the opportunity to actively recruit students from a much broader range of backgrounds, especially those from groups underrepresented in the scientific community.