NRT-WoU: Establishing Multimessenger Astronomy Inclusive Training (EMIT)

这项授予范德比尔特大学的国家科学基金会研究培训（NRT）奖将为新兴的多信使天文学（MMA）领域的第一代学生做好准备。随着引力波的发现，我们打开了一扇了解宇宙的新窗口，同时也迎来了一个千载难逢的开创新领域的机会。该计划的目标是试点建立多信使天文学包容性培训（EMIT）倡议。EMIT将是一个跨学科的研究生项目，促进多样性和包容性，培养具有推动MMA发现所需技能的学者，同时扩大STEM劳动力。该项目将通过新的正式课程、研讨会、暑期项目和研究培训300名来自物理学、天文学、数学和工程学的学生，其中包括19名获得资助的学员。其目标是建立一个从一开始就多样化的实践社区，通过建立队列、共享研究经验、明显的未被充分代表的少数群体榜样，以及旨在促进包容性卓越的一套循证规划。EMIT学员将学习跨学科的概念，研究技术，以及对推进综合格斗至关重要的研究行为。利用教育研究支持的实践，该计划将培养学生采取团队科学方法，同时发展过渡到劳动力的可转移技能。一些学员将在合作院校菲斯克大学获得理学硕士学位，并可能直接就业或继续攻读博士学位。其他受训者将直接进入范德比尔特大学攻读博士学位。无论选择哪种选项，学生都将通过研究，课程和推广获得MMA研究生证书。菲斯克、范德比尔特和外部合作者之间的联合学生研究将汇集新的专业知识节点。这些合作研究项目将补充和加强合作院校的优势。该团队将在整个学生培训期间提供特定阶段的专业发展。该计划补充了传统的课程与一个新颖的模块化课程，具体到MMA。一些课程和爆破模块将发布在EMIT YouTube频道上，以达到更大的社区。夏季研讨会，全国开放，将每两年举行一次，扩大对研究需求的理解，提高综合格斗所需的技能，并进一步促进EMIT学员的教学和交流。在获得毕业证书后，EMIT学员将帮助领导这个工作坊。美国国家科学基金会研究实习生（NRT）计划旨在鼓励开发和实施大胆的、具有潜在变革性的STEM研究生教育培训新模式。该项目致力于通过创新、循证、适应不断变化的劳动力和研究需求的综合培训模式，在高优先级跨学科或融合研究领域对STEM研究生进行有效培训。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。

This National Science Foundation Research Traineeship (NRT) award to Vanderbilt University will prepare the first generation of students in the emerging field of multimessenger astronomy (MMA). With the discovery of gravitational waves, there is a new window on the universe and with it, a once-in-a-generation opportunity to launch a new field. The goal of this program is to pilot the Establishing Multimessenger Astronomy Inclusive Training (EMIT) initiative. EMIT will be a transdisciplinary graduate program that promotes diversity and inclusion and produces scholars with the skills needed to drive discoveries in MMA while expanding the STEM workforce. The project will train 300 students from physics, astronomy, math, and engineering, including 19 funded trainees, through new formal curricula, seminars, summer programs, and research. The aim is to build a community of practice that is diverse from the outset through cohort building, shared research experiences, visible underrepresented minority role models, and a suite of evidence-based programming designed to promote inclusive excellence. EMIT trainees will learn the interdisciplinary concepts, research techniques, and the conduct of research critical to advance MMA. Using educational research-supported practices, the program will prepare students to take a team science approach while developing transferable skills for transition to the workforce. Some trainees will earn a Master of Science degree at Fisk University, a collaborating institution, and may directly enter employment or go on to join a Ph.D. program. Other trainees will enter Vanderbilt directly in a doctoral program. Regardless of the option chosen, students will earn a graduate certificate in MMA through research, coursework, and outreach. Joint student research between Fisk, Vanderbilt, and external collaborators will bring together new nodes of expertise. These collaborative research projects will complement and enhance the strengths of the partnering institutions. The team will provide stage-specific professional development for the entire student training period. The program supplements traditional coursework with a novel modular curriculum specific to MMA. Some courses and Blast Modules will be posted on an EMIT YouTube channel to reach the larger community. A summer workshop, open nationally, will occur every other year and broaden understanding of the research needs, promote the skills required for MMA, and further stimulate teaching and communication for EMIT trainees. After earning the graduate certificate, EMIT trainees will help lead this workshop. The NSF Research Traineeship (NRT) Program is designed to encourage the development and implementation of bold, new potentially transformative models for STEM graduate education training. The program is dedicated to effective training of STEM graduate students in high priority interdisciplinary or convergent research areas through comprehensive traineeship models that are innovative, evidence-based, and aligned with changing workforce and research needs.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.