REU Site: Vanderbilt University Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Physics & Astronomy

REU 网站：范德比尔特大学物理学本科生的研究经验

• 批准号: 1852158
• 负责人: Keivan Stassun
• 金额: $ 42.21万
• 依托单位: Vanderbilt University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-03-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852158&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Vanderbilt; University; Research

American competitiveness in basic science research and technology development depends crucially on a highly skilled, trained physics workforce. Physics is foundational to much of the fundamental research activity of US research and development efforts. The Vanderbilt University Summer REU program offers undergraduate physics and astronomy students the opportunity to work closely with faculty on forefront research projects in a variety of subfields of physics. The areas include astronomy, biological physics, condensed matter physics including nanoscience, laser physics, nuclear physics, and particle physics. The research mentors are all well funded researchers and all have committed to personally directing the students. An extensive research infrastructure, including the facilities of several large interdisciplinary centers, will be available to the students. Physics students will also have the opportunity to visit major facilities at government laboratories, both domestic and international, including FermiLab, Brookhaven, Oak Ridge, and CERN. As part of the program's emphasis on leadership development, the program includes training in ethical conduct of research, and, as part of the program's emphasis on developing the future workforce, includes a focus on broadening participation of underrepresented groups in physics. The REU program will achieve broad impact. In particular, the track record of the program over the past six years shows that a high percentage of the new participants will be underrepresented minority students, and the track record moreover shows that more than half of those participants will be from institutions with limited research opportunities. To achieve sustained impact, the program is designed to build ties between the Vanderbilt mentors, all of whom are supported with appropriate salary, and faculty at the student's home institution. This builds a larger community, provides for continued support for the student, and enhances the ability for continued mentoring and research participation of the student beyond the REU site experience. Students also have the opportunity to participate in mini and short courses in entrepreneurship, computing, and data science while at Vanderbilt, as well as participating in the Fisk-Vanderbilt Physics and Astronomy Roadshow outreach program. This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program, and by the Division of Physics and the Division of Astronomical Sciences within NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate.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.

美国在基础科学研究和技术开发方面的竞争力关键取决于高技能、训练有素的物理学劳动力。物理学是美国研发工作许多基础研究活动的基础。范德比尔特大学夏季 REU 项目为物理和天文学本科生提供了与教师在物理各个子领域的前沿研究项目上密切合作的机会。这些领域包括天文学、生物物理学、凝聚态物理学（包括纳米科学）、激光物理学、核物理学和粒子物理学。研究导师都是资金雄厚的研究人员，并且都致力于亲自指导学生。学生将可以使用广泛的研究基础设施，包括几个大型跨学科中心的设施。物理专业的学生还将有机会参观国内外政府实验室的主要设施，包括费米实验室、布鲁克海文实验室、橡树岭实验室和欧洲核子研究中心。作为该计划强调领导力发展的一部分，该计划包括研究道德行为的培训，并且作为该计划强调发展未来劳动力的一部分，包括重点扩大物理学领域代表性不足群体的参与。 REU 计划将产生广泛的影响。特别是，该项目过去六年的跟踪记录显示，新参与者中很大一部分是代表性不足的少数族裔学生，而且跟踪记录还显示，其中一半以上的参与者将来自研究机会有限的机构。为了实现持续的影响，该计划旨在建立范德比尔特导师与学生所在机构的教师之间的联系，所有导师都获得适当的薪水支持。这建立了一个更大的社区，为学生提供持续的支持，并增强学生在 REU 现场体验之外继续指导和参与研究的能力。 学生还有机会在范德比尔特大学参加创业、计算和数据科学方面的迷你和短期课程，以及参加 Fisk-Vanderbilt 物理和天文学路演推广计划。 该网站得到了国防部与 NSF REU 计划的合作，以及 NSF 数学和物理科学理事会的物理部和天文科学部的支持。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Searching for young runaways across the sky

跨越天空寻找逃亡少年

• DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stac2829
• 发表时间: 2022
• 期刊: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
• 影响因子: 4.8
• 作者: Kounkel, Marina;Mcbride, Aidan;Stassun, Keivan G;Leigh, Nathan
• 通讯作者: Leigh, Nathan