REU SITE: Research Experiences for Undergraduates at the Oklahoma Weather Center

REU 网站：俄克拉荷马州气象中心本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 9701902
• 负责人: Mark Palmer
• 金额: $ 7.97万
• 依托单位: University of Oklahoma Norman Campus
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1997
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1997-07-15 至 1999-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9701902&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; SITE; Research; Experiences; Undergraduates

9701902 Palmer An objective of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Program is to provide talented undergraduate students with the opportunity to obtain active experience in research. After a series of summer programs hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration s (NOAA) National Severe Storm s Laboratory (NSSL), scientists at various meteorological institutions Norman, OK (collectively known as the Weather Center) met to discuss the summer program and ways to improve it. The result was a proposal to the NSF to establish a REU site at the Weather Center. The REU program proposed for 1991 addressed the concerns identified by the hosts of the NOAA program with a plan to increase the number of students, the number of mentors, and the variety of institutions participating, as well as the level of financial support to be offered and an increased effort to recruit students from underrepresented groups. In addition to NSF, the NSSL continued its support at about the same level as in 1990. For ten weeks, from June 10 through August 16, 1991, fourteen undergraduates from eight different states and nine different undergraduate institutions participated in the program of lectures, demonstrations, laboratory experiments, field trips, and individual research projects. Their positive evaluations of their experience led to REU sites in the Summers of 1992 and 1993. Under the current award, this series will continue with approximately ten undergraduate students participating in the late Spring/early Summer of 1998. At the Oklahoma Weather Center, students will participate in atmospheric research and data analysis under the supervision of mentors from throughout the Oklahoma Weather Center. The students' research experiences will be supplemented by tours of Weather Center facilities and lectures to produce a well-rounded summer learning experience. This will give the students an opportunity to become more aware of scientific ethics an d issues relating to gender and racial discrimination, and to judge for themselves whether a scientific research career might be right for them. The students will prepare and present papers reporting the results of their research. The students will be provided housing, transportation to and from the REU, and a modest stipend to make the program accessible to economically disadvantaged students who must work during summers to support their continuing education. The Principal Investigator will make recruiting trips to encourage underrepresented minorities and women to apply to the program. For example, the Principal Investigator will travel to and work closely with the Department of Physics at Clark Atlanta University (CAU), a historically African-American university, in recruiting motivated students. The Principal Investigator also intends to perform a follow-up evaluation of students who have participated in these programs in the past in order to obtain some measure of effectiveness. ***

小行星9701902 本科生研究经验（REU）计划的目标是为有才华的本科生提供获得积极研究经验的机会。 在美国国家海洋和大气管理局（NOAA）国家强风暴实验室（NSSL）主办的一系列夏季项目之后，来自各气象机构的科学家们在俄克拉荷马州诺曼市 （统称为气象中心）开会讨论夏季计划和改进方法。结果是向国家科学基金会提出在气象中心建立一个REU站点的建议。 1991年提出的REU方案解决了NOAA方案主办方提出的关切问题，计划增加学生人数、导师人数和参与机构的种类，以及提供的财政支助水平，并加大努力从代表性不足的群体中招收学生。 除了NSF之外，NSSL继续提供与1990年大致相同的支持。 从1991年6月10日到8月16日，14名来自8个不同州和9个不同本科院校的本科生参加了为期10周的讲座、演示、实验室实验、实地考察和个人研究项目。 他们对自己的经验作出了积极的评价，因此在1992年和1993年夏天建立了REU网站。 根据目前的奖项，这一系列将继续约十名本科生参加在春末/初夏1998年。 在俄克拉荷马州气象中心，学生将在来自整个俄克拉荷马州气象中心的导师的监督下参加大气研究和数据分析。学生的研究经验将通过气象中心设施的图尔斯之旅和讲座来补充，以产生全面的夏季学习体验。 这将使学生有机会更多地了解科学道德和与性别和种族歧视有关的问题，并自行判断科学研究职业是否适合他们。 学生将准备并提交报告其研究结果的论文。 学生将获得住房，往返REU的交通工具，以及适度的津贴，使经济困难的学生可以参加该计划，他们必须在夏季工作，以支持他们的继续教育。 首席研究员将进行招聘旅行，以鼓励代表性不足的少数民族和妇女申请该计划。 例如，首席研究员将前往克拉克亚特兰大大学（CAU），一所历史上的非洲裔美国大学的物理系，并与之密切合作，招募有动力的学生。 主要研究者还计划对以下患者进行随访评价： 过去参加过这些项目的学生，为了获得一些 衡量有效性。 ***