REU Site: Research Experiences in Astronomy for Undergraduate Students at the Maria Mitchell Observatory

该奖项是为马萨诸塞州南图克特的玛丽亚米切尔天文台（MMO）本科生研究经验（REU）网站提供的新资金。REU计划将每年提供给六名合格的申请人，他们将使用各种各样的空间和地面天文观测进行最先进的数据分析。学生的专题包括：恒星的形成和演化、星系群和星系团、宇宙的大尺度结构、宇宙学和星星团。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。MMO REU计划将对学生参与者的技能和职业发展产生重大影响，提高他们进行研究的能力，在科学会议和公共场合展示他们的成果，撰写科学论文，并撰写使用国家和国际望远镜设施的观测建议。迄今为止，已有数百名本科生参加了REU计划，其中绝大多数是女性，许多人在世界各地的一流大学，天文台和其他组织中担任天文学家。事实上，今天大约每20个拥有天文学博士学位的美国女性中就有一个在MMO获得了形成性的研究经验。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is for renewed funding of the Maria Mitchell Observatory (MMO) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site in Nantucket, Massachusetts. The REU program will be offered annually to six qualified applicants, who will perform state-of-the-art data analysis using a wide variety of space- and ground-based astronomical observations. The student projects include the general areas of: formation and evolution of stars, groups and clusters of galaxies, large-scale structure of the universe, cosmology, and star clusters. This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.The MMO REU program will have a significant impact on the skills and career development of student participants by enhancing their capability to do research, to present their results at scientific meetings and in public settings, to write scientific papers, and to write observing proposals to use national and international telescope facilities. Hundreds of undergraduate students have participated in the REU program to date, the great majority of them women, and many have gone on to successful careers as astronomers at leading universities, observatories, and other organizations around the world. Indeed, roughly one of every 20 American women with a PhD in astronomy today acquired formative research experience at the MMO. This award will therefore contribute to developing a talented STEM workforce in the United States.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.