Summer Undergraduate Research Program

*海德这笔助学金延续了贝勒在过去三个夏天已经实施的夏季本科生研究项目，目前得到了贝勒和国家科学基金会的支持。七名学生将从公开申请中选出，该项目在全国各地的大学、研究能力很少或没有研究能力的较小本科院校以及历史上一直属于少数族裔的院校发布广告。通过位于www.baylor.edu/homepages/emp/Truell_Hyde/Scripts/URC.html.的万维网网页，提供完整的申请信息、部门研究信息以及在线申请该计划的能力(这允许那些院校通常不鼓励此类暑期项目的学生获得所需信息，并为他们提供申请机会)。招生过程(特别是少数民族、妇女和小型学校的学生)得到了国际学生联合会与五个州地区这类小型学校的教职员工的联系以及国际学生联合会研究生(其中两名是女性)的帮助，他们从招生过程开始一直持续到暑期计划，与国家科学基金会的研究员进行个人接触。总而言之，这些措施允许从德克萨斯州、俄克拉何马州、路易斯安那州、阿肯色州和堪萨斯州地区的小型私立机构中识别和招收优秀学生。以黑人和西班牙裔为主的校园也将成为特别目标，主要是少数族裔专科学校。德克萨斯州的每一所学院和大学都将被包括在招聘工作中，因为其中许多学院和大学都有大量的拉美裔学生。NSF研究员将在夏季与来自美国和几个国家的贝勒本科生和研究生进行互动。他们将参加每周两次的研讨会、社会活动、暑期本科生研究研讨会的结束以及各种感兴趣的物理研究领域的特别设计的课程。与过去一样，预计国家科学基金会研究员所做的夏季研究中至少有一部分将发表同行评议的出版物。与过去一样，将与将在同一大楼举行的NSF化学REU暑期项目合作，提供参观附近工业和研究设施、社会活动以及联合研究研讨会的机会。这提供了更多数量的NSF夏季研究员，在十周的时间里与他们互动，并有助于产生一种“大”计划的感觉。***

*** Hyde This grant continues a summer undergraduate research program already in place for the past three summers at Baylor and currently supported by both Baylor and the National Science Foundation. Seven students will be selected from open applications with the program advertised at universities around the nation, smaller undergraduate institutions with little or no research capability and historically minority institutions. Complete application information, departmental research information as well as the ability to apply to the program "on line" is provided through a World Wide Web page located at www.baylor.edu/homepages/emp/Truell_Hyde/Scripts/URC.html. (This allows students whose institutions do not customarily encourage such summer programs to have access to the required information and offers them the opportunity to apply). The recruiting process (particularly for minorities, women and students from small schools) is aided by the PI's contact with faculty at such small schools in the five state area as well as by the PI's graduate students (two of which are women) who provide personal contact with the NSF Fellows starting with the recruitment process and continuing through the summer program. Taken together, these allow identification and recruitment of outstanding students from small, private institutions in the Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas and Kansas areas. Predominantly Black and Hispanic campuses will be specifically targeted as well predominantly minority junior colleges. Every college and university in the state of Texas will be included in the recruitment effort since many of them have large Hispanic enrollments. The NSF Fellows will interact during the summer with Baylor undergraduate and graduate students from both the United States and several foreign countries. They will participate in twice weekly seminars, social activities, an end of the summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and specially designed classes in various phy sics research fields of interest. As in the past, it is expected that at least some of the summer research done by the NSF Fellows will result in peer- reviewed publications. Trips to nearby industries and research facilities, social activities as well as joint research seminars will be offered (as in the past) in cooperation with the NSF Chemistry REU Summer Program to be held in the same building. This provides for a much larger number of NSF Summer Fellows with which to interact during the ten week period and aids in producing a "large" program feel. ***