REU Site for Undergraduate Research in Accelerator, Nuclear and Particle Physics

韦恩州立大学提供了一个REU项目，在夏天将来自底特律都会区的贫困学生带到国家实验室。布鲁克海文国家实验室、费米实验室和康奈尔大学基本和粒子物理实验室为学生提供了机会。通过该计划的RET部分，在职教师也有类似的机会。华盛顿州立大学招收了一个独特的多元化的学生群体，主要来自社会上代表性不足的群体。该计划包括一个准备阶段，包括在冬季向学生和未来的教师参与者提供一小时的课程（总共14小时）。本课程向学生和教师介绍与暑期体验相关的物理和数学概念。本课程还介绍了一个大型实验的计算环境，以及一个计算机作业，它要求学生编写和理解简单的程序，产生一些图形输出，并在Unix环境中编写自己的网页。这个准备阶段为学生提供了密集的教师互动，鼓励和努力，以确保学生的需求得到满足。韦恩州立大学的教职员工随后在6月初与学生和老师一起前往布鲁克海文、费米实验室和康奈尔大学，帮助他们安顿下来并开始学习。参与者在每个站点与其他现有的REU项目合并进行社会活动，并就各种科学主题进行讲座。

Wayne State University offers an REU program to bring disadvantaged students from the Detroit Metro Area to national laboratories over the summer. Opportunities for students are offered at Brookhaven National Laboratory, Fermilab, and at Cornell University's Laboratory for Elementary and Particle Physics. Similar opportunities also exist for in-service teachers through an RET component of the program. WSU recruits a uniquely diverse group of students, largely from underrepresented segments of society. The program consists of a preparation phase involving a one-hour course given over the winter to students and prospective teacher participants (14 hours total). The course introduces the students and teachers to the physical and mathematical concepts relevant for the summer experience. The course also provides an introduction to the computing environment of a large experiment, and a computer homework, which requires the students to write and understand simple programs, produce some graphic output, and write their own web page within a Unix environment. This preparation phase provides the students with intensive faculty interaction, encouragement, and an effort to make sure that student needs are met. Wayne State faculty then travel with the students and teachers to Brookhaven, Fermilab, and Cornell in early June to help them get settled and started. The participants merge with other existing REU programs at each site for social activities, and lectures on various scientific topics.