REU SITE: University of Kansas Physics and Astronomy Research Experiences for Undergraduates

该奖项旨在堪萨斯大学建立一个新的本科生研究体验(REU)网站，目标是让10名本科生参与者在每年夏天为期10周的时间里从事天文学、天体粒子物理、高能理论以及凝聚态理论和实验领域的研究。堪萨斯大学物理和天文学系的指导教师有设计短期研究项目和在出版物中包含学生结果的经验。同时，参与者将在第一周通过计算训练营增加他们的计算技能，并发展专业技能，如科学写作、陈述和讨论结果。这个REU网站将为参与的学生提供机会，在完成他们的研究项目后，参加科学会议并展示他们的成果。此外，REU将提供伦理培训，包括关于隐性偏见、旁观者干预和研究伦理的研讨会。科学活动将辅以研究生辅导和系级社交活动，包括学生举办的物理聚会的多样性。参与者招募工作将在全国范围内进行，但将特别关注来自中西部较小学院的学生和代表性不足的学生(URM)。申请将接受包括认知评估和非认知评估在内的全面评估，并将为代表性不足的学生和女性/非双元制学生提供一定数量的参与名额。这项REU计划的一个重要成果是让学生参加国家科学会议。这将扩大他们在物理和天文学领域的接触，同时提高他们的能见度，这对确保URM学生的成功尤为重要。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award seeks to establish a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Kansas with the objective of exposing ten undergraduate participants for 10 weeks per summer to research in the areas of astronomy, astroparticle physics, high energy theory, and condensed matter theory and experiment. The mentoring faculty of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Kansas have experience designing short-term research projects and including student results in publications. At the same time participants will increase their computing skills through a computational bootcamp during the first week, and develop professional skills such as scientific writing, presenting, and discussing results.This REU site will offer participating students, after completion of their research projects, the opportunity to attend a scientific conference and present their results. In addition, this REU will provide ethics training, including workshops on implicit bias, bystander intervention, and research ethics. The scientific activities will be supplemented with graduate student mentoring and departmental social activities, including student-run Diversity in Physics gatherings. Participant recruitment efforts will be National, but will provide a particular focus on students from smaller colleges in the Midwest and underrepresented students (URM). Applications will be evaluated holistically including both cognitive and non-cognitive assessments, and a certain number of participant slots will be provided for underrepresented students and women/non-binary students. A keystone outcome of this REU program is to have participating students present at national scientific conferences. This will broaden their exposure to the fields of physics and astronomy while increasing their visibility, which is especially important in ensuring the success of URM students.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.