REU Site: Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experiences (ASSURE)

加州大学空间科学实验室的通过本科生研究体验推进空间科学（ASSURE）计划为本科生提供了空间科学研究和工程方面的沉浸式体验。学生们接触到一个多学科的研究实验室设置，在该领域的领导者一起进行前沿研究。ASSURE计划积极招募来自社区学院和其他机构的参与者，这些机构为历史上在空间和地球科学领域代表性不足的人口提供服务，目的是在他们职业生涯的早期提供研究经验。该计划采取的跨学科方法反映了学生最终可能在劳动力中面临的技能范围。ASSURE计划支持与航天器仪器和硬件开发，数据分析和高性能计算相关的研究项目，这些研究项目处于联邦资助的地球空间研究的前沿。参与该计划的学生获得设计和管理实验研究计划所需的经验，并支持一系列正在进行的地球空间任务。SSL的研究人员由从事射电天文学、磁层物理学、太阳物理学、行星科学、高能天体物理学等一系列空间物理学飞行任务的不同国际团体组成，并保持着强大的工程设施。SSL的工作范围为学生提供了全面接触一系列地球空间研究的机会，包括空间天气和其他国家重要现象。 这个REU网站的目标是为了解决NSF的战略目标“扩大科学，工程和学习的知识”，并“提高国家的能力，以满足当前和未来的挑战。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为是值得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的支持。

The Advancing Space Sciences through Undergraduate Research Experience (ASSURE) program at the University of California Space Sciences Laboratory provides undergraduate students with an immersive experience in space science research and engineering. Students are exposed to a multidisciplinary research laboratory setting, conducting cutting edge research alongside leaders in the field. The ASSURE program actively recruits participants from community colleges and other institutions serving populations historically underrepresented in the space and geosciences with the aim of providing research experience early in their careers. The interdisciplinary approach taken in the program is reflective of the range of skills that students may eventually face in the workforce.The ASSURE program supports research projects relating to the development of spacecraft instrumentation and hardware, data analysis, and high performance computing at the forefront of federally funded geospace research. Students involved in the program acquire experience required for design and management of experimental research programs and support a range of on-going geospace missions. The research staff at SSL is composed of a diverse international community working on a range of space physics missions in radio astronomy, magnetospheric physics, heliophysics, planetary science, high energy astrophysics, and maintains robust engineering facilities. The range of work at SSL provides ASSURE students with the opportunity to gain a comprehensive exposure to a range of geospace research, including space weather and other phenomena of national importance. The goals of this REU site are designed to address NSF strategic goals of “expanding knowledge in science, engineering and learning” and to “advance the capability of the nation to meet current and future challenges.”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.