Astrophysics Partners Reaching Across the State of Colorado

天体物理学合作伙伴覆盖科罗拉多州

• 批准号: 2219108
• 负责人: Julia Comerford
• 金额: $ 23.78万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Boulder
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2022-10-01 至 2025-09-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2219108&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Astrophysics; Partners; Reaching; Across; State

A new research and education partnership in astronomy will be developed between the University of Colorado (CU) at Boulder and Fort Lewis College, a designated Native American-serving college located in Durango, Colorado. The primary goal of this partnership is to open pathways to astronomy professions for Native American students. Over the course of three years, this program will enable a total of nine Fort Lewis College undergraduates to develop skills in astrophysics research, by providing 10-week summer research internships at the CU Boulder astrophysics department and the NSF’s National Solar Observatory, which is located on CU’s campus. In order to expand the students’ professional and social community, the new summer program will plug into several well-established programs on campus. The program will provide workshops, field trips, near-peer mentoring from graduate students of color, conversations with CU’s Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, poster presentation opportunities at national conferences, and a celestial reunion at an Ancestral Puebloan archaeological site at Chimney Rock National Monument.The students participating in this program will learn about spectroscopy, Python coding, and telescopes, as well as science communication, writing an abstract, and creating a scientific poster. Their summer research projects will cover a wide range of astrophysics, including the origin of metals in white dwarfs, the properties of exoplanet atmospheres, understanding magnetic fibrils on the Sun, and the effect of different supermassive black hole mass measurements on gravitational wave signals. The students will present their scientific results in posters at a CU research symposium, a Society for the Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science meeting, and an American Astronomical Society meeting. Through these research experiences, as well as workshops on applying to graduate school and field trips to astronomy-related workplaces, the undergraduates will be well poised for entry into graduate school or other astronomy career paths. This award advances the goals of the Windows on the Universe Big Idea.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.

博尔德的科罗拉多大学（CU）和位于科罗拉多州杜兰戈的路易斯堡学院（Fort Lewis College）将建立一个新的天文学研究和教育合作伙伴关系。这一伙伴关系的主要目标是为美洲原住民学生开辟通往天文学专业的道路。在三年的时间里，该项目将通过在科罗拉多大学博尔德天体物理系和位于科罗拉多大学校园内的美国国家科学基金会国家太阳天文台提供为期10周的暑期研究实习，使总共9名路易斯堡学院的本科生能够发展天体物理学研究技能。为了扩大学生的专业和社会社区，新的暑期项目将与校园内几个成熟的项目相结合。该项目将提供研讨会、实地考察、有色人种研究生的近同龄人指导、与科罗拉多大学美洲原住民和土著研究中心的对话、在全国会议上展示海报的机会，以及在烟囱岩国家纪念碑的普韦布洛人祖先考古遗址举行的天体聚会。参与该项目的学生将学习光谱学、Python编码和望远镜，以及科学传播、撰写摘要和制作科学海报。他们的夏季研究项目将涵盖广泛的天体物理学，包括白矮星中金属的起源、系外行星大气的特性、了解太阳上的磁原纤维，以及不同超大质量黑洞质量测量对引力波信号的影响。学生们将在科罗拉多大学的研究研讨会、奇卡诺人/西班牙裔和美洲原住民科学进步协会会议和美国天文学会会议上以海报的形式展示他们的科学成果。通过这些研究经历，以及申请研究生院的研讨会和天文学相关工作场所的实地考察，本科生将为进入研究生院或其他天文学职业道路做好准备。这个奖项推进了“宇宙大创意之窗”的目标。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。