REU Site: Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers - the On-Ramp at Exit 9

该奖项支持罗格斯大学物理和天文学系的本科生新研究体验(REU)站点。本科生将花费10周时间进行天文学、高能/核物理和凝聚态物理的前沿研究。学生还将参与一项专业发展活动计划，教育他们在物理和天文学领域的研究行为和职业前景，并为他们提供申请、进入研究生院并取得成功的工具，作为迈向这些职业生涯的第一步。在正式和非正式的环境中，学生们将受益于彼此的互动，与罗格斯大学物理学和天文学专业的本科生，与指定的研究生“近乎同行的导师”，以及与来自罗格斯大学以外在完全不同的科学领域工作的不同的同龄人群体。参与该项目的教师导师(包括五名APS研究员和四名NSF职业奖获得者)是一群热情、合作、知识多样化和屡获殊荣的科学家-教育家，他们拥有令人兴奋的研究计划和与本科生合作的出色记录。

This award supports a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers. Undergraduate students will spend ten weeks doing forefront research in astronomy, high-energy/nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics. The students will also engage in a program of professional development activities that educate them about the conduct of research and the prospects for careers in physics and astronomy, and that give them the tools for applying to, gaining admission to, and succeeding in graduate school as the first step towards those careers. In a mixture of formal and informal settings, the students will benefit from interacting with each other, with Rutgers undergraduate physics and astronomy majors, with assigned graduate student "near-peer mentors", and with a diverse peer group from outside Rutgers working in completely different scientific fields. The faculty mentors involved in this project(including five APS Fellows and four NSF CAREER award winners) are an enthusiastic, collegial, intellectually diverse, and award-winning set of scientist-educators with exciting research programs and excellent records of working with undergraduates.