REU/RET Site Program at the National Solar Observatory

该奖项将继续国家太阳天文台(NSO)本科生研究体验(REU)/教师研究体验(RET)计划，每个暑期资助6名学生和4名教师。NSO提供了一个独特的教育机会，直接接触到世界级的研究设施和太阳物理研究方面的科学人员。NSO为太阳物理界提供了一套世界级的望远镜，能够研究太阳内部、光球层、色球和日冕。通过直接使用这些设施，或通过使用以前使用NSO望远镜获取的数据，学生将在各种项目中得到指导，从研究日冕中的阿尔芬波到测量日冕物质抛射下太阳内部的等离子体流动。NSO REU的学生喜欢接触到萨克拉门托山顶望远镜设施的紧张研究环境和图森位置的大学环境；在这两个地点，REU的学生除了他们的科学导师外，还与研究生和博士后研究人员打成一片。REU学生的独立性是通过要求在暑期结束时进行研究讲座来培养的。NSO REU/RET网站的目标是服务于不同的学生群体，包括那些来自研究型大学的学生和那些通常无法接触到前沿研究项目的较小学校的学生。NSO计划为受众提供了与普通物理和天文学本科生相当的性别和种族多样性，并继续努力增加REU和RET参与者的种族多样性。该网站由国防部与NSF天文科学部合作，在NSF REU计划下共同资助。

This award will continue the National Solar Observatory (NSO) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) / Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) program with the funding of six students and four teachers per summer. The NSO offers a unique educational opportunity by providing direct access to world-class research facilities and scientific staff in solar physics research. The NSO provides the solar physics community with a suite of world-class telescopes that enable studies of the solar interior, photosphere, chromosphere and corona. With direct use of these facilities, or by using data previously taken with NSO telescopes, students will be mentored in projects ranging from studies of the Alfvén waves in the solar corona to measurements of the plasma flows in the solar interior below coronal mass ejections. NSO REU students enjoy exposure to the intense research environment at the Sacramento Peak telescope facilities, and to the university environment of the Tucson location; at both sites, the REU students mix with graduate students and post-doctoral researchers in addition to their scientific mentors. The REU students' independence is fostered by requiring research talks at the end of the summer.The NSO REU/RET Site has a goal of serving a diverse group of students, including those from research universities and those from smaller schools that normally would not have access to forefront research projects. The NSO program has served an audience with a gender and ethnic diversity comparable to that of the general physics and astronomy undergraduate population, and continues to work to increase REU and RET participant ethnic diversity.This site is co-funded by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences under the NSF REU program.