Interdisciplinary Reseach Experiences for Teachers

该奖项支持威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校教师研究经验网站的更新。该奖项每年夏季将支持7名教师和2名教师进行为期一年的研究活动。高中和初中科学教师、职前教师，以及特殊情况下的小学教师，将在教师导师和教师导师（后者将是以前项目中经验丰富的实习生）的指导下，接触化学、地球科学和物理系以及威斯康星大学天文馆的前沿研究。RET实习生的具体学习、发展和研究参与领域可能包括：射电天文学和脉冲星探测（ARCC@UWM）、引力波探测（LIGO）、高温超导、生物系统中分子电场的测量和用于远程环境监测的新型光纤传感器的开发、纳米科学和纳米技术使用扫描隧道显微镜、纳米尺度物体的成像和操作，如单荧光分子、x射线光电子能谱、对威斯康辛州东北部奶牛粪便和私人饮用水井中抗生素耐药细菌的研究，大分子晶体学，酶反应的动力学和热力学研究，利用光谱和时间分辨率的激光扫描荧光显微镜对活细胞中蛋白质活性和相互作用进行成像，对皮埃尔·奥格天文台超高能量宇宙射线产生的空气淋点数据进行分析，以及不列颠哥伦比亚省北部和冰岛近期熔岩流的岩石学研究。该项目实习生不仅将在教师导师的指导下通过从事合适的研究活动来加强自己的知识基础，而且在教师导师的指导下，他们还将开发一个基于探究的教学项目，该项目将在课堂上实施；在核心暑期课程之后的春季，在威斯康星科学教师协会的年度会议上向全州观众展示；并在UWM RET网站上发展成为面向全国受众的网络资源。该奖项由物理学部和化学学部资助。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experience for Teachers site at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The award will support seven teachers per summer and two teachers for year long research activities. High- and middle-school science teachers, pre-service teachers, and, exceptionally, elementary-school teachers, will be exposed to cutting edge research in the departments of Chemistry, Geosciences, and Physics, and the UWM Planetarium under the guidance of faculty mentors and teacher mentors (the latter will be experienced interns from the previous program). Specific areas of study, development, and research participation for RET interns may include: radio astronomy and pulsar detection (ARCC@UWM), gravitational wave detection (LIGO), high temperature superconductivity, measurement of molecular electric fields in biological systems and the development of novel optical fiber sensors for remote environmental monitoring, nanoscience and nanotechnology using scanning tunneling microscopy, imaging and manipulation of nanoscale objects such as single fluorescent molecules, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, investigation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in dairy manure and private drinking water wells in Northeast Wisconsin, Macromolecular Crystallography, kinetic and thermodynamic investigation of enzyme reactions, imaging of protein activity and interactions in living cells using laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy with spectral and temporal resolution, analysis of data of air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the Pierre Auger Observatory, and petrology of recent lava flows from northern British Columbia and Iceland. The interns in this program will not only strengthen their knowledge base by engaging in suitable research activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor, but, with the guidance of the teacher mentors, they will also develop an inquiry-based teaching project that will be: implemented in the classroom; presented to a state-wide audience at the annual Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers conference in the spring following the core summer program; and developed as a web-based resource for a national audience on the UWM RET website. This award is funded by the Division of Physics and the Division of Chemistry.