Baylor University REU/RET Site Program

该奖项支持本科生研究体验（REU）站点与教师研究体验（RET）组件集成在天体物理、空间物理与工程研究中心（CASPER）和贝勒大学物理系。选定的REU研究员在现场居住大约十周，如有要求，可延长两周。NSF研究员从天体物理学、复杂（尘埃）等离子体、早期宇宙宇宙学、基本粒子物理学、核物理学、空间物理学、超弦物理学或表面物理学中选择研究机会，为所提议的活动提供明确的智力价值。在所有这些领域，研究员都参与了先进的科学研究，他们的许多活动本质上是跨学科的，因此涉及多个科学领域。在这个项目的过程中，研究员们被鼓励在他们的研究议程中变得自给自足。这个目标在一定程度上是通过研究团队已经到位的设置以及个人导师的关注来实现的，这是该计划的一个标志。学校还大力鼓励社会融合，包括开幕和闭幕宴会、每周两次的研讨会、社会活动、夏季本科生研究专题讨论会和专门设计的各种感兴趣的物理研究领域的课程。在REU研究员返回他或她的家庭机构后，也可以获得合作研究机会，因为在学年期间返回贝勒的部分津贴支持。REU研究员是从全国各地大学的国家申请池中挑选出来的，其中的本科生来自规模较小的本科院校，这些院校规模较小，历史上很少有少数民族院校。该计划还提供4至7个RET奖学金，按MPS指导方针按两个月的年化工资提供资金。RET研究员从国家申请者池中选出，并在现场居住大约八周。RET研究员整个夏天都与CASPER的研究人员和教师一起参加，与NSF REU研究员一起工作，并参加所有每周的NSF会议。与此同时，他们也获得了资源（包括卡斯珀、喷气推进实验室、洛斯阿拉莫斯国家实验室、桑迪亚国家实验室、约翰逊航天中心和德克萨斯太空资助联盟开发的教育材料），以开发新的令人兴奋的课程模块，并将其带回课堂。该奖项由物理系和数学与物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同资助。

This award supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site integrated with a Research Experience for Teachers (RET) component within the Center for Astrophysics, Space Physics & Engineering Research (CASPER) and the Department of Physics at Baylor University. Selected REU fellows reside on-site for approximately ten weeks with two-week extensions available for those requesting them. The NSF fellows choose from research opportunities in astrophysics, complex (dusty) plasmas, early universe cosmology, elementary particle physics, nuclear physics, space physics, superstring physics or surface physics providing clear intellectual merit for the proposed activity. In all of these areas, fellows are involved in advanced scientific research with many of their activities being interdisciplinary in nature and thus acting across several scientific fields. Over the course of the program, fellows are encouraged to become self sufficient in their research agenda. This goal is realized in part by the research team setting already in place along with individual mentor attention which is a hallmark of the program. Social integration is also strongly encouraged using opening and closing banquets, twice-weekly seminars, social activities, an end of the summer Undergraduate Research Symposium and specially designed classes in various physics research fields of interest. Collaborative research opportunities after the REU fellow returns to his or her home institution are also available as is partial stipend support for returning to Baylor during the academic year. REU fellows are selected from a national application pool at universities around the nation, with undergraduate students from smaller undergraduate institutions with little and historically minority institutions. The program also provides four to seven RET fellowships, funded at two months of annualized salary per MPS guidelines. RET fellows are selected from a national applicant pool and reside on-site for approximately eight weeks. RET fellows participate throughout the summer with researchers and faculty within CASPER, work with NSF REU fellows and attend all weekly NSF meetings. At the same time, they are also given the resources (including educational materials developed at CASPER, the Jet Propulsion Lab, Los Alamos National Lab, Sandia National Lab, the Johnson Space Center and the Texas Space Grant Consortium) to develop new and exciting curriculum modules to take back into their classrooms. This award is co-funded by the Division of Physics and the Office of Multidisciplinary Activities of the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.