REU Site: Physics and Astronomy Research at Rutgers

REU 网站：罗格斯大学物理和天文学研究

• 批准号: 1560077
• 负责人: Andrew Baker
• 金额: $ 29.94万
• 依托单位: Rutgers University New Brunswick
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2023-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1560077&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Physics; Astronomy; Research

This award supports the continuation of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. Nine students per summer will be brought to Rutgers for ten weeks each, during which they will engage in forefront research in astronomy, high-energy and nuclear physics, condensed matter physics, and physics education. The students will also engage in a program of field trips and professional development activities that educate them about the conduct of research and arm them with the information and tools they need to define and achieve their educational and professional goals. The award will promote the progress of science in the multiple areas from which research projects are drawn, and will support the education and training of 27 students-- many from underrepresented backgrounds and/or institutions with limited research opportunities-- thereby broadening participation in the physics and astronomy communities and the STEM workforce.To achieve its goals, the REU site will provide a mixture of formal and informal settings in which participating students will interact with each other, with their faculty mentors and assigned graduate student "near-peer" mentors, with Rutgers undergraduate physics and astronomy majors, and with a diverse co-residential peer group from outside Rutgers working in completely different STEM fields. Faculty mentors include multiple APS Fellows and NSF CAREER award winners and are a vibrant, collegial, intellectually diverse, and well-funded set of scientist-educators with exciting research programs and excellent records of working with undergraduates. Students will live and socialize with peers in the Rutgers Research in Science and Engineering (RiSE) program, a key organizational partner. Relative to the previous site award, the renewal award will innovate by introducing mentorship training, flexible supervisory arrangements, physics education research opportunities, and program assessment featuring national benchmarking and external evaluation.

该奖项支持新泽西州立大学罗格斯大学物理与天文学系本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站的延续。每年夏天，九名学生将被带到罗格斯大学，每人十周，在此期间他们将从事天文学、高能和核物理、凝聚态物理和物理教育方面的前沿研究。学生还将参加实地考察和专业发展活动计划，教育他们如何进行研究，并为他们提供定义和实现教育和职业目标所需的信息和工具。该奖项将促进研究项目所属多个领域的科学进步，并将支持 27 名学生的教育和培训——其中许多学生来自代表性不足的背景和/或研究机会有限的机构——从而扩大对物理和天文学界以及 STEM 劳动力的参与。为了实现其目标，REU 网站将提供正式和非正式的混合环境，参与的学生可以在其中与他们的教师导师和指定的学生进行互动。 研究生“近同伴”导师，与罗格斯大学物理学和天文学专业的本科生，以及来自罗格斯大学以外在完全不同的 STEM 领域工作的多元化共住同伴群体。教师导师包括多名 APS 研究员和 NSF 职业奖获得者，他们是一群充满活力、学术性、知识多元化、资金雄厚的科学家教育家，拥有令人兴奋的研究项目和与本科生合作的出色记录。学生将与罗格斯大学科学与工程研究 (RiSE) 项目的同龄人一起生活和社交，该项目是一个重要的组织合作伙伴。相对于之前的现场奖，更新的奖项将创新地引入导师培训、灵活的督导安排、物理教育研究机会以及国家对标和外部评估的项目评估。