REU Site: Frontier Physics and Astronomy Research with Technical Presentations

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)提供资金的。该奖项支持加州大学洛杉矶分校的REU网站。该计划的主要目标是鼓励学生，包括女性、代表性不足的少数族裔，以及来自研究设施有限的机构的学生，在物理学、天体物理学和一般科学领域追求职业生涯。该方案针对的是地理和文化多样化的群体，因此在全国范围内招收学生，并特别努力将目标对准四年制院校、历史悠久的黑人大学和传统女子学院。该项目的核心活动包括一项为期10周的研究项目，由加州大学洛杉矶分校的一名教职员工监督。这些项目涵盖了该系代表的各个领域(包括等离子体物理、凝聚态物理、加速器物理、高能物理、核物理、天体物理、天体粒子物理和生物物理)，随着不同的教职员工自愿投入时间，这些项目每年都会有所不同。该项目的学术价值植根于学生和教师之间的密切互动，因为他们在一系列尖端项目中进行了丰富的选择。这些研究经验还得到了其他辅助培训的补充，如机械车间、伦理研讨会、物理GRE预备课程和每周一次的教员研讨会系列。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This award supports the REU site at the University of California - Los Angeles. The main objective of the program is to encourage students, including women, underrepresented minorities, and students from institutions with limited research facilities to pursue careers in physics, astrophysics, and science in general. The program is aimed at a geographically and culturally diverse group and thus students are recruited nationally and special effort is made to target 4-year institutions, historically black colleges and traditional women's colleges. The program's activities include at its core a 10-week research project under the supervision of a UCLA faculty member. The projects span the various fields represented in the department (including plasma physics, condensed matter physics, accelerator physics, high energy physics, nuclear physics, astrophysics, astroparticle physics, and biophysics), and vary from year to year as different faculty members volunteer their time. The intellectual merit of this program is rooted in the close student-faculty interactions as they work together on one of a rich selection of cutting-edge projects. These research experiences have been supplemented by other auxiliary training such as a machine shop workshop, an ethics workshop, a Physics GRE prep course, and a weekly faculty seminar series.