REU Site: Physics and Chemistry Research at Wooster

非技术性描述伍斯特学院物理系和化学系的REU网站密切指导本科生进行可发表的研究项目。这个网站的目标是提高学生在科学领域的留存率，并帮助建立对我们国家的未来至关重要的技术队伍。其长期运行的颗粒流实验允许研究雪崩和地震等关键现象。它的反应扩散模拟揭示了受损心脏组织的波前恢复。该公司正在对伍斯特发现的一种独特的可膨胀玻璃进行研究，这为其在环境修复项目中的商业应用提供了信息。该网站的教职员工在介绍和培训学生方面拥有丰富的经验，特别是从本科和两年制大学招聘的年轻学生。该网站支持高危学生，因为它向他们介绍了从事科学研究的挑战、兴奋和回报。学生通过研究、口头和海报演示、书面报告和文章合作成为实践科学家。技术描述位于伍斯特学院物理系和化学系的REU网站使即使是新手本科生也能做出重大的科学贡献。它定期招收主要是本科院校和当地两年制学院的学生。这些研究项目涵盖了广泛的领域，包括颗粒材料、时空图案形成、膨胀玻璃、量子光学、非线性动力学、天体力学和天体物理。方法包括理论、计算和实验。这个网站包括一个STEM推广部分，通过这个部分，学生们在伍斯特的七叶树女性科学、工程和研究(B-WISER)夏令营中为7年级的女孩进行和解释吸引人的科学演示。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONThis REU site in the Physics and Chemistry departments at The College of Wooster closely guides undergraduates in publishable research projects. This site targets improving the retention of students in science and helping build the technological workforce that is essential to our nation's future. Its long-running granular flow experiment allows investigation of critical phenomena like avalanches and earthquakes. Its reaction-diffusion simulation sheds light on wave-front recovery in damaged cardiac tissue. Its ongoing study of a unique swellable glass, discovered at Wooster, informs its commercial use in environmental remediation projects. The site's faculty have extensive experience introducing and training students in research, especially young students recruited from undergraduate and two-year colleges. The site supports at-risk students as it introduces them to the challenge, excitement, and rewards of doing research in science. Students become practicing scientists through research, oral and poster presentations, written reports, and article co-authorship.TECHNICAL DESCRIPTIONThis REU site in the Physics and Chemistry departments at The College of Wooster enables even novice undergraduates to make significant scientific contributions. It regularly recruits students from primarily undergraduate institutions and local two-year colleges. The research projects span a broad range of fields including granular materials, spatiotemporal pattern formation, swellable glass, quantum optics, nonlinear dynamics, celestial mechanics, and astrophysics. Approaches include theory, computation, and experiment. This site includes a STEM outreach component through which students conduct and explain engaging science demonstrations for 7th grade girls in Wooster's Buckeye Women In Science, Engineering, and Research (B-WISER) summer camp.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.