AstroCom NYC: A Partnership between New York City Astronomers

该奖项全部或部分由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。AstroCom NYC是一个旨在通过加强和巩固纽约市研究天文学家之间的伙伴关系，改善城市少数民族学生获得天体物理学研究机会的项目。合作伙伴是纽约市立大学（CUNY）的少数族裔机构，以及美国自然历史博物馆（AMNH）的天体物理研究部门和Flatiron研究所的计算天体物理中心（CCA）。在AstroCom NYC成功的基础上，一个新的项目将巩固一个跨越纽约市所有五个行政区的持久和可持续的合作伙伴关系，为纽约市立大学的本科生提供集中的、个性化的指导以及财务和学术支持，并为纽约市立大学的教师和学生提供进一步研究的资源和机会。合作伙伴为纽约市立大学的学生（大多数是来自STEM中代表性不足群体的贫困城市学生）创建了一个正式的渠道，让他们参与天文学研究。AstroCom NYC的合作伙伴有多年指导本科生研究星系特性和演化、黑洞物理、近质量和低质量恒星、数值模拟和建模，以及从射电到伽马射线的观测天文学的经验。他们也完全有资格完成改善少数族裔接触天体物理学研究的任务，因为他们有着强大的工作关系、专业知识和指导不同背景学生的热情，以及来自纽约市立大学的现成参与者候选人库。AstroCom NYC是拥有大量不同少数民族人口的城市地区的典范，参与者广泛发表文章，在全国范围内提交进度报告，指导教师专业发展，并根据他们在吸引不同人群方面的专业知识在审查小组中任职。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 award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). AstroCom NYC is a program designed to improve the access of urban minority students to opportunities in astrophysical research by enhancing and solidifying partnerships between research astronomers in New York City. The partners are minority-serving institutions of the City University of New York (CUNY), and the astrophysics research departments of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute. A renewed program, which builds on the success of the original AstroCom NYC, will cement a lasting and sustainable partnership spanning all five boroughs of New York City to provide centralized, personalized mentoring as well as financial and academic support to CUNY undergraduates throughout their studies, plus the resources and opportunities to further CUNY faculty research with students.The partners have created a formal conduit for CUNY students (the majority of whom are poor, urban students from groups underrepresented in STEM) to participate in research in astronomy. The partners in AstroCom NYC have many years of experience mentoring undergraduates in research on galaxy properties and evolution, black hole physics, nearby and low-mass stars, numerical simulations and modeling, and observational astronomy from the radio to gamma rays. They are also well-qualified for the task of improving minority access to astrophysics research because of their strong working relationships, expertise and enthusiasm for mentoring students with diverse backgrounds, and the ready pool of participant candidates from within CUNY. AstroCom NYC serves as a model to urban areas with large and diverse minority populations, and the participants publish widely, present progress reports nationally, conduct faculty professional development, and serve on review panels based on their expertise in engaging diverse populations.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.