REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Cornell University

REU 网站：康奈尔大学天文学和天体物理学本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 1156780
• 负责人: Martha Haynes
• 金额: $ 55.35万
• 依托单位: Cornell University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-05-01 至 2018-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156780&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experience; Undergraduates

This award supports the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Cornell University. The program aims to provide undergraduate students from across the country with the opportunity to engage actively in research covering a broad swath of the science frontier from the Solar System to the extreme environments surrounding black holes to the distant reaches and earliest moments of the universe. Students will work with individual faculty on a focused research project. In addition, they will also participate in a series of lectures and workshops designed particularly to expose them to a range of research topics, techniques and forefront facilities as well as the processes by which major facilities and missions are designed, constructed and operated. While primary mentoring responsibility will lie with the faculty, interactions within research groups will provide contact with more junior professionals such as graduate students and postdoctoral students as well as engineers and technical staff. Students will have access to local resources and facilities and will learn how to access and use public databases and software tools. Organized activities on our residential rural campus, sometimes in coordination with other undergraduate research programs within our university, will offer the opportunity to expose the students to broader science areas and to stimulate understanding of the nature, methodology and ethics of scientific research on a scale larger than our own program. The program will encourage mentors to take students on observing trips, to assist with development of publications and other presentations, and to send them to professional meetings. Students will also participate in several activities designed to address issues related to graduate school and science as a career. Students will be selected on merit, but the program will aim to recruit diverse student cohorts including students from underrepresented groups and from colleges and universities with limited research infrastructure.

该奖项支持康奈尔大学天文学和天体物理学本科生研究经验（REU）网站。该计划旨在为来自全国各地的本科生提供积极参与研究的机会，这些研究涵盖了从太阳系到黑洞周围的极端环境到宇宙的遥远范围和最早期的科学前沿。学生将与个别教师在一个重点研究项目。此外，他们还将参加一系列讲座和讲习班，这些讲座和讲习班特别旨在使他们了解一系列研究课题、技术和前沿设施，以及主要设施和任务的设计、建造和运行过程。虽然主要的指导责任将在于教师，研究小组内的互动将提供更多的初级专业人员，如研究生和博士后学生以及工程师和技术人员的接触。学生将有机会获得当地的资源和设施，并将学习如何访问和使用公共数据库和软件工具。在我们的住宅农村校园有组织的活动，有时与我们大学内的其他本科研究项目协调，将提供机会让学生接触更广泛的科学领域，并刺激对科学研究的性质，方法和道德的理解，其规模大于我们自己的计划。该计划将鼓励导师带学生进行观察旅行，协助出版物和其他演示文稿的开发，并将他们派往专业会议。学生还将参加旨在解决与研究生院和科学作为职业有关的问题的几项活动。学生将择优选拔，但该计划的目标是招募不同的学生群体，包括来自代表性不足的群体和研究基础设施有限的学院和大学的学生。