REU Site: BU-PRO: Boston University Physics Research Opportunities

REU 网站：BU-PRO：波士顿大学物理研究机会

• 批准号: 1852266
• 负责人: Karl Ludwig
• 金额: $ 33.58万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-04-01 至 2023-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1852266&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; BU; PRO; Boston

This award supports a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Boston University. The site will support eight undergraduate students per summer for ten weeks of research in various topics in physics. The program aims to give students at a critical point in their education meaningful research experiences grounded in physics but with strong links to other physical sciences, including electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering, materials science, and chemistry. The specific components will include 1) research experience working in groups with peers and senior scientists on specific projects; 2) instruction in the culture, methods, and ethics of scientific research; and 3) preparation for a future career in which they will be interacting with colleagues coming from a wide range of backgrounds: intellectual, educational, geographical and cultural. In addition, the program will be linked to BU's internal Undergraduate Research Opportunities (UROP) program so that the REU students will be members of a larger community of student researchers.The core of the participants' experience will be mentored research within individual research groups. The groups' interests span the range of research in academic physics: from particle physics to biophysics to condensed matter and materials physics to optical physics and photonics. The faculty leading these individual research groups are distinguished scholars at various stages of their careers but all have experience mentoring undergraduates. Carefully structured plenary activities will complement the individual research experiences and provide the students with an understanding of the need for teamwork and interdisciplinary awareness in their future careers. This award is funded through The Division of Physics and the Division of Materials Research in 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.

该奖项支持波士顿大学本科生（REU）网站的新研究经验。 该网站将支持八名本科生每年夏天在物理学的各种主题的研究十周。 该计划旨在为处于教育关键点的学生提供有意义的研究经验，这些经验以物理学为基础，但与其他物理科学有着密切的联系，包括电气，机械和计算机工程，材料科学和化学。具体内容将包括1）与同行和高级科学家在特定项目上的小组工作的研究经验; 2）在科学研究的文化，方法和道德方面的指导;和3）为未来的职业生涯做准备，他们将与来自广泛背景的同事互动：知识，教育，地理和文化。此外，该计划将与BU的内部本科生研究机会（UROP）计划相联系，以便REU学生将成为更大的学生研究人员社区的成员。参与者体验的核心将是个别研究小组内的指导研究。这些小组的兴趣涵盖了学术物理学的研究范围：从粒子物理学到生物物理学，再到凝聚态和材料物理学，再到光学物理学和光子学。领导这些研究小组的教师都是处于职业生涯不同阶段的杰出学者，但都有指导本科生的经验。精心组织的全体活动将补充个人的研究经验，并为学生提供在未来职业生涯中需要团队合作和跨学科意识的理解。 该奖项由NSF数学和物理科学理事会的物理部和材料研究部资助。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。