Revealing the Invisible Universe: from Nanoscope to Telescope

揭示看不见的宇宙：从纳米望远镜到望远镜

• 批准号: 0227755
• 负责人: Supapan Seraphin
• 金额: $ 45.5万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2003
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2003-01-01 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0227755&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Revealing; Invisible; Universe; Nanoscope; Telescope

This proposal was submitted in response to the MPS Internships in Public Science Education (MPS-IPSE) solicitation, NSF 02-064. The project aims to create informal science programs that appeal to public interest by highlighting scientific areas in which people are interested, and broaden the audience for science by sending programs into the community. It will concurrently provide valuable experience to undergraduate and graduate students in communicating about science with public audiences. This is a collaborative effort among the Flandrau Science Center, the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, the Arizona State Museum and the Science and Math Education Center, and the National Optical Astronomy Observatory at the University of Arizona. The project will create three modular programs for the general public and middle-school groups. The programs will highlight the use of optical and electron-beam technologies to extend human vision out to the edge of the universe, and into the atomic structure of materials. The first program, Electronic Detectives of the Future and Past, will examine the use of electron microscopy to develop new materials for the future, as well as to understand how Native Americans used materials in ancient times. The second, called Revealing the Invisible, will look at the use of infrared detectors on satellites to look both into space and back at archeological sites on Earth. The third program, Bucky and the Nanotubes, will tell the story of the accidental discovery of buckyballs during the course of basic Astronomy research, and their potentially revolutionary applications to the development of new materials. Program designs will emphasize scientific process and people, and illustrate how and why recent advances have been made. These stories of discovery will be accompanied by science demonstrations as well as slide and video imagery. Hands-on activities will accompany each program. %%% The project will develop descriptive programs about science that appeal to public interest. The programs will highlight scientific areas which appeal to the public, and are expected to broaden the audience for science. The project will concurrently provide valuable experience to undergraduate and graduate students in communicating about science with public audiences. Broad impacts of the project include participating interns and the audiences they reach. The project will train a diverse group of interns (18 undergraduates, 6 graduate students and 6 teachers over three years) in science and informal science education. The programs they develop will continue to be offered to school groups and the general public at the Science Center after the life of the grant. Some modules will also be offered at the Arizona State Museum extending the reach of science programming to a broader audience. Annual attendance at the Science Center is approximately 60,000, of which 25,000 are children in groups. Equivalent numbers at the State Museum are 50,000 and 5000. Discovery boxes will be created for teachers and museum docents to use in the classroom to complement these programs. In addition, program scripts, images and videos will be made available via the Internet for other science centers to adapt and use. The project is supported by the MPS Office of Multidisciplinary Activities (OMA). ***

该提案是为了响应公共科学教育中的MPS实习（MPS-IPSE）征集，NSF 02-064而提交的。该项目旨在通过突出人们感兴趣的科学领域来创建吸引公众兴趣的非正式科学计划，并通过将计划发送到社区来扩大科学的受众。 它将同时提供宝贵的经验，本科生和研究生在科学与公众沟通。这是Flandrau科学中心，材料科学与工程系，亚利桑那州立博物馆和科学与数学教育中心以及亚利桑那大学国家光学天文台之间的合作努力。该项目将为公众和中学团体创建三个模块化方案。该计划将突出使用光学和电子束技术，将人类的视野扩展到宇宙的边缘，并进入材料的原子结构。第一个程序，未来和过去的电子探测器，将检查电子显微镜的使用，为未来开发新材料，以及了解美洲原住民如何使用材料在古代。 第二个项目名为“揭示无形”，将研究使用卫星上的红外探测器来观察太空和地球上的考古遗址。 第三个节目，巴基和纳米管，将讲述在基础天文学研究过程中偶然发现巴基球的故事，以及它们在新材料开发中的潜在革命性应用。 程序设计将强调科学过程和人，并说明如何以及为什么最近的进展已经取得。 这些发现的故事将伴随着科学演示以及幻灯片和视频图像。实践活动将伴随每个程序。 该项目将开发吸引公众兴趣的科学描述性项目。这些节目将突出吸引公众的科学领域，并有望扩大科学的受众。 该项目将同时提供宝贵的经验，本科生和研究生在科学与公众沟通。该项目的广泛影响包括参与的实习生和他们接触的受众。 该项目将在科学和非正式科学教育方面培训一批不同的实习生（18名本科生、6名研究生和6名教师，为期三年）。 他们开发的项目将继续提供给学校团体和公众在科学中心后的生活补助金。 亚利桑那州立博物馆还将提供一些模块，将科学节目的范围扩大到更广泛的受众。科学中心每年约有60，000人参加，其中25，000人是儿童团体。 国家博物馆的相应数字是50，000和5000。探索箱将被创建为教师和博物馆讲解员在课堂上使用，以补充这些计划。此外，将通过互联网提供程序脚本、图像和视频，供其他科学中心改编和使用。该项目得到了MPS多学科活动办公室（OMA）的支持。***