REU Site: Solar Physics Program at Montana State University

在蒙大拿州立大学（MSU），首席研究员（pi）将继续他们非常成功的“本科生研究经验”（REU）项目。该计划的主要活动是指导和监督本科生，他们将在夏季进行为期十周的太阳物理学个人研究项目。这些学生项目中的大部分将涉及对来自航天器和地面太阳观测站的数据进行分析。pi的目标群体将是主修物理、天文学、数学和计算机科学的本科生。蒙大拿州夏季项目将通过独立的科学项目向这些本科生介绍太阳物理研究，这些项目由一名教师导师完成，经常与一名研究生共同导师完成。在夏季，REU学生将学习太阳物理学的入门课程，其中包括访问学者的讲座，学生的最终研究报告将在网上发布。这些学生项目也经常导致与密歇根州立大学教师导师联合发表专业出版物和会议报告。密歇根州立大学的导师们在招募女性加入REU方面非常成功，项目活动也包括了美洲原住民的学生和教师。该REU项目的“科学伦理”培训部分已发展成为该领域专家提出的成功要素。先前REU学生对这一道德成分的效用的反馈表明，这种培训留下了不可磨灭的印记，将很好地为这些学生服务，无论他们未来的职业选择如何。密歇根州立大学以前的REU参与者也报告说，他们在大学环境中接触专业研究鼓励他们继续他们的研究生教育，并将研究作为一种职业。凭借其强大的空间科学组成部分，该计划通过为公民和未来的研究人员提供对空间天气对地球空间环境影响的理解，为社会带来利益。由于太阳物理学在美国相对较少的学院和大学教授，蒙大拿州REU计划为这一学科提供了重要的服务。

The Principal Investigators (PIs) will continue their highly successful "Research Experiences for Undergraduates" (REU) program in solar physics at Montana State University (MSU). The main activity of this program is the mentoring and supervision of undergraduate students who will perform individual research projects in solar physics for ten weeks during the summer. Most of these student projects will involve the analysis of data from spacecraft and from ground-based solar observatories. The PIs' target group will be undergraduates majoring in Physics, Astronomy, Mathematics, and Computer Sciences. The Montana State summer program will introduce these undergraduates to solar physics research through independent science projects performed with a faculty mentor, and frequently with a graduate student co-mentor. During the summer, REU students will take an introductory course in solar physics which includes lectures by visiting scholars, and the students' final research reports will be posted online. These student projects also frequently result in joint professional publications and confernece presentations with the MSU faculty mentor. MSU mentors have been highly successful in recruiting women into this REU experience, and program activities have also included Native American students and teachers. This REU program's "Ethics in Science" training component has developed into a successful element presented by a specialist in that field. Prior REU student feedback concerning the utility of this ethics component indicates that this training has left an indelible imprint that will serve these students well, regardless of their future career choices. Previous REU participants at MSU have also reported that their exposure to professional research in a university environment encouraged them to continue their graduate education and to pursue research as a profession. With its strong space science component, the program offers benefits to society by providing citizens and future researchers with an understanding of space weather impacts on Earth's space environment. Since solar physics is taught at relatively few colleges and universities in the US, the Montana State REU Program provides an important service to this discipline.