REU Site: Physics and Astronomy Research at Rutgers

该奖项支持新泽西州立大学罗格斯分校物理与天文系本科生研究经验（REU）网站的延续。每年夏天将有九名学生被带到罗格斯大学，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。学生们还将参加实地考察和专业发展活动，以教育他们如何进行研究，并为他们提供所需的信息和工具，以确定和实现他们的教育和职业目标。该奖项将促进研究项目所在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，从而扩大物理学和天文学社区以及STEM劳动力的参与度。为了实现其目标，REU网站将提供正式和非正式的混合环境，参与的学生将与彼此互动，与他们的教师导师和分配的研究生“近同伴”导师，与罗格斯大学物理学和天文学本科专业的学生，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同居住的同伴小组进行互动。教师导师包括多个APS研究员和NSF职业奖获得者，他们是一个充满活力的、合议的、智力多样化的、资金充足的科学家-教育工作者，他们有令人兴奋的研究项目和与本科生合作的优秀记录。学生们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，这是一个重要的组织合作伙伴。与之前的场地奖相比，续签奖将通过引入导师培训、灵活的监督安排、物理教育研究机会、以国家基准和外部评估为特色的项目评估等方式进行创新。

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.