Baylor University REU/RET Site Program

贝勒大学 REU/RET 站点计划

• 批准号: 0648869
• 负责人: Truell Hyde
• 金额: $ 37.88万
• 依托单位: Baylor University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2007
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2007-06-01 至 2010-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0648869&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Baylor; University; REU; RET; Site

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.

该奖项支持本科生研究经验（REU）网站与天体物理中心，空间物理工程研究（CASPER）和贝勒大学物理系内的教师研究经验（RET）组件相结合。 选定的REU研究员在现场居住约10周，并为那些要求他们的人提供两周的延期。国家科学基金会的研究员从天体物理学、复杂（尘埃）等离子体、早期宇宙学、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的研究机会中进行选择，为拟议的活动提供明确的智力价值。在所有这些领域，研究员都参与先进的科学研究，他们的许多活动具有跨学科性质，因此跨越几个科学领域。 在该计划的过程中，鼓励研究员成为自给自足的研究议程。这一目标的实现部分是通过研究团队设置已经到位沿着个人导师的关注，这是该计划的一个标志。 社会融合也强烈鼓励使用开放和关闭宴会，每周两次的研讨会，社交活动，夏季本科研究研讨会结束，并在感兴趣的各种物理研究领域专门设计的课程。 REU研究员返回他或她的家乡机构后的合作研究机会也可作为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库中挑选出来的，本科生来自规模较小的本科院校，这些院校很少，历史上也是少数民族院校。 该方案还提供四到七个RET奖学金，根据MPS指导方针提供两个月的年薪。 可再生能源信托基金研究员从国家申请人库中挑选，在当地居住约8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，他们还获得了资源（包括在CASPER、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、约翰逊航天中心和得克萨斯航天赠款财团开发的教育材料），以开发新的和令人兴奋的课程模块，并带回课堂。 该奖项由物理学部和数学和物理科学理事会多学科活动办公室共同资助。