REU Site: Broadening Participation in Physics - A multi-institutional REU program

非技术描述：佐治亚理工学院（Georgia Tech）物理学院的本科生研究体验（REU）网站让本科生参与沉浸式夏季研究体验，为参与者提供动手物理研究并鼓励他们开始研究生学习。佐治亚理工学院与亚特兰大大学中心（莫尔豪斯学院、克拉克亚特兰大大学、斯佩尔曼学院）的机构之间的多机构合作关系，促进了国家在科学、技术、工程和数学（STEM）领域培养训练有素的多元化劳动力的兴趣。本网站的主要目的是：(1)为来访的本科生研究人员提供高质量的研究经验，并结合一系列专业发展活动，(2)激励和培养有才华的本科生追求研究生学习并取得成功，(3)组建一支反映美国人口多样性的参与者骨干队伍，(4)吸引研究活动有限的机构的学生。(5)在暑期项目结束后，当参与者回到他们的家乡院校时，继续参与其中；(6)促进联盟中四所院校在研究和教学方面的合作。该网站的其他组成部分包括团队建设活动，定期小组会议，研究研讨会系列，研讨会系列（例如，专注于道德，演讲技巧和研究生机会），本科生研究专题讨论会，以及工业和政府实验室的实地考察。技术细节：佐治亚理工学院-亚特兰大大学中心本科生研究经验（REU）网站的本科生参与者与教师导师和与她/他的物理兴趣一致的研究小组配对。夏季研究项目从一系列可能性中选择，从原子物理到凝聚态物理；从生命系统物理学到天体物理学和计算物理学。该网站旨在加强佐治亚理工学院与亚特兰大大学中心各机构之间的互动，从而提高那些以本科生为主、少数族裔服务的机构的研究能力。该网站精心设计，将高质量的研究经验，指导和REU参与者之间的社区建设交织在一起，以便为学生提供丰富，支持性的成长体验。完成这个暑期体验的学生将具备宝贵的技能（硬技能和软技能），增强的视角，以及一组永久的导师，以帮助他们追求STEM职业。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，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。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the School of Physics at Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) engages undergraduate students in an immersive summer research experience that provides participants with hands-on physics research and encouragement to embark on graduate studies. This multi-institutional partnership between Georgia Tech and the institutions in the Atlanta University Center (Morehouse College, Clark Atlanta University, Spelman College) fosters the nation's interests in creating a highly-trained, diverse workforce in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). The primary objectives of this Site are to: (1) provide high quality research experiences, in combination with a series of professional development activities, for cohorts of visiting undergraduate researchers, (2) motivate and prepare talented undergraduates to pursue, and succeed in, graduate studies, (3) assemble a cadre of participants that reflects the diversity of the U.S. population, (4) attract students from institutions that have limited research activities, (5) continue engagement of the participants beyond the summer program when they return to their home institutions, and (6) nurture collaborations in research and instruction between the four institutions in the consortium. Other components of the site include team-building activities, regular group meetings, a research seminar series, a workshop series (e.g., focused on ethics, presentation skills, and graduate opportunities), undergraduate research symposia, and field trips to industrial and government laboratories.TECHNICAL DETAILS: Undergraduate participants in the Georgia Tech - Atlanta University Center Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) site are paired with a faculty mentor and research group aligned with her/his physics interests. Summer research projects are selected from an array of possibilities ranging from atomic physics to condensed matter physics; from physics of living systems to astrophysics and computational physics. The Site aims to enhance interactions between Georgia Tech and the institutions in the Atlanta University Center and thereby increases the capacity for research at those predominantly undergraduate, minority-serving institutions. The Site is carefully structured to interweave high-quality research experiences, mentoring, and community building between the REU participants in order to provide students with a rich, supportive growth experience. Students who complete this summer experience are well-equipped with invaluable skillsets (hard and soft), an enhanced perspective, and a permanent set of mentors to aid in pursuit of their STEM careers.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.