The Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium: An Integrated, Collaborative and Effective Program to Involve Undergraduates in Research

AST 0353997赫布斯特凯克东北天文学联盟（KNAC）由以下机构的天文学教师和学生组成：高露洁，哈弗福德（包括布林莫尔的学生），米德尔伯里，斯沃斯莫尔，瓦萨，韦尔斯利，卫斯理和威廉姆斯。KNAC提供了一个综合和协作计划，旨在为学生提供研究经验，否则他们不会有。该计划有四个综合组成部分：o一个为期10周的夏季研究机会，让学生在KNAC机构工作，而不是自己的。 o秋季学生研讨会由几乎整个教师和大量的学生（不只是那些谁做了研究）出席，其中每个KNAC支持的学生给他或她的项目10分钟的研究谈话。 我们也邀请和鼓励在KNAC以外的赞助下进行研究项目的院校学生在研讨会上发言或提交海报论文。 o出版该研讨会的会议记录，每位演讲学生撰写4页的研究论文。这些论文集在天文学界广泛分发（例如分发给研究生院），并被天体物理学数据系统收录在其电子书目中。o KNAC教师的夏季规划和评估会议。

AST 0353997 HerbstThe Keck Northeast Astronomy Consortium (KNAC) is comprised of astronomy faculty and students at the following institutions: Colgate, Haverford (including students from Bryn Mawr), Middlebury, Swarthmore, Vassar, Wellesley, Wesleyan and Williams. KNAC provides an integrated and collaborative program, designed to provide research experiences for students that they would otherwise not have. The programs have four integrated components:o A 10-week summer research opportunity for students to work at a KNAC institution other than their own. o A fall Student Symposium attended by nearly the entire faculty and a large number of students (not just those who have done research) at which each KNAC-supported student gives a 10-minute research talk on his or her project. Students from our institutions who have done research projects under auspices other than KNAC are also invited and encouraged to either speak at the Symposium or present poster papers. o Publication of Proceedings from that Symposium, for which each presenting student writes a 4-page research paper. These Proceedings are distributed widely within the astronomical community (e.g. to graduate institutions) and included by the Astrophysics Data System in their electronic bibliography. o A summer planning and evaluation meeting of the KNAC faculty.