REU SITE: A Pilot Distributed REU Site Focused on Serving Physics and Astronomy Students from Comprehensive and Community Colleges

这个试点的分布式研究经验的本科生（REU）网站在中央华盛顿大学（CWU）提供了机会，六个本科生每年夏天的十个星期的研究课题在物理学科，如激光，光学，光谱学，生物物理学，表面和材料科学和天文学。REU的学生将在中央华盛顿大学、赖特州立大学、查尔斯顿学院、威斯康星大学拉克罗斯分校、奥斯汀皮伊州立大学、安柏里德尔航空大学或韦伯州立大学进行研究。除了与经验丰富的导师一起参与研究外，学生们还将参加每周的活动，以确保他们的研究不仅保持在正轨上，而且他们有一个引人入胜的大学和学术经验。这些活动将在CWU以及其他研究中心进行。 到课程结束时，每个学生都将撰写一份研究报告，并在演讲或海报中展示他们的工作成果。这个REU网站将有一些更广泛的影响，其重点是为本科生提供研究机会，以帮助他们为未来的科学，技术，工程和数学职业做好准备。此外，该网站还致力于为来自物理学研究项目较少或没有研究项目的机构和社区学院的学生提供研究机会。该网站有一个强有力的计划，从物理学代表性不足的群体中招募学生。该项目将以一个评价小组领导的评价为指导，该小组将评估这一分布式模式的运作情况，并随后传播评估结果。

This pilot for a distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Central Washington University (CWU) provides opportunities to six undergraduate students each summer for ten weeks of research on topics in physics disciplines such as lasers, optics, spectroscopy, biophysics, surface and materials science and in astronomy. The REU students will conduct the research at Central Washington University, Wright State University, College of Charleston, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Austin Peay State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, or Weber State University. In addition to participating in research with an experienced mentor, the students will engage in weekly activities to ensure not only that their research stays on track but that they have an engaging collegial and scholarly experience. These activities will take place at CWU, as well as at the other research sites. By the end of the program, every student will have written a research report and presented the results of their work in a talk or a poster. This REU site will have a number of broader impacts with its focus on providing research opportunities to undergraduates to help prepare them for future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. Additionally, the site focuses on providing research opportunities to students from institutions with small or no research programs in physics and from community colleges. The site has a strong plan to recruit students from groups underrepresented in physics. The project will be guided by an evaluation, led by a team of evaluators, who will assess how well this distributed model works and subsequently disseminate the findings.