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

该奖项全部（或部分）根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117 - 2）资助。该奖项继续资助范德比尔特大学的本科生研究经验（REU）网站，为本科物理和天文学学生提供与教师密切合作的机会，在物理学的各种子领域的前沿研究项目。这些领域包括天文学和多信使天体物理学，生物物理学，凝聚态物理学，包括材料和纳米科学，核物理学和粒子物理学，以及涉及大数据和数据科学日益重要和交叉领域的项目。研究导师都是著名的研究人员，都致力于亲自指导学生。一个广泛的研究基础设施，包括几个大型跨学科中心的设施，将提供给学生。物理学生也将有机会参观政府实验室的主要设施，国内和国际，包括费米实验室，布鲁克海文，橡树岭，和欧洲核子研究中心。该计划的一个关键部分将是对代表性不足的少数民族学生，妇女和/或残疾人的高比例的参与继续强调，超过一半的学生将来自研究机会有限的机构。此外，还非常重视领导力的发展。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，包括上述重点扩大物理学中代表性不足的群体的参与。通过建立这个计划，并通过与国家物理学会，特别是少数民族物理学会的广泛工作，学到的最佳做法，在招募参与者。该计划旨在建立范德比尔特导师之间的联系，他们都是支持研究人员，并在学生的家乡机构的教师。这将建立一个更大的社区，为学生提供持续的支持，并提高学生继续指导和参与研究的能力。此外，学生有机会参加范德比尔特启动前计划，这是一门介绍创业原则的迷你课程，通过范德比尔特的NSF I-Corps网站计划提供。他们还可以受益于通过范德比尔特数据科学研究所和/或范德比尔特超级计算中心提供的计算和数据科学短期课程（两者都由物理天文学教师指导）。&最后，学生提供培训的机会，通过菲斯克-范德比尔特物理天文路演推广计划的研究与教育的整合。&该网站由NSF数学和物理科学理事会的物理部、天文科学部和材料研究部支持。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。

This award is funded in whole (or in part) under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). The award continues the funding of the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at Vanderbilt University which 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 and multimessenger astrophysics, biological physics, condensed matter physics including materials and nanoscience, nuclear physics, and particle physics, as well as projects involving the increasingly important and cross-cutting area of big data and data science. The research mentors are all renowned 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.A key part of the program will be a continued emphasis on the participation of a high percentage of underrepresented minority students, women, and/or persons with disabilities, and more than half of the students will be from institutions with limited research opportunities. Furthermore, there is a strong 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 the aforementioned focus on broadening participation of underrepresented groups in physics. The best practices learned through building this program and through extensive work with national physics societies, especially the minority physics societies, are employed in recruiting participants. The program is designed to build ties between the Vanderbilt mentors, all of whom are supported researchers, 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. In addition, students have the opportunity to participate in the Vanderbilt Pre-Launch program, a mini-course that introduces principles of entrepreneurship, offered through the NSF I-Corps Site program at Vanderbilt. They also can benefit from short courses in computing and data science offered through the Vanderbilt Data Science Institute and/or the Vanderbilt supercomputing center (both directed by members of the Physics & Astronomy faculty). Finally, students are offered the opportunity for training in the integration of research with education through the Fisk-Vanderbilt Physics & Astronomy Roadshow outreach program. This site is supported by the Division of Physics, the Division of Astronomical Sciences, and the Division of Materials Research 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.