REU Site: Nanophotonics, Quantum Photonics, and Vision/Biomedical Optics at the University of Rochester.

REU网站：罗切斯特大学的纳米光子学、量子光子学和视觉/生物医学光学将让参与的学生参与纳米科学、生物科学和量子科学的光子学研究前沿，同时为他们提供经验，以认识到光子学领域的学术和行业的绝佳职业机会。REU的预期成果是（1）参与者的光子学知识和光子学作为职业的意识的增长，（2）进入光子学研究和职业的学生群体的多样性增加，以及（3）奖励REU学生和教师/研究生导师的研究生产力。人们已经广泛认识到，理解和控制光的最基本单位-光子-对于创新基于光的技术以及发展我们国家国防和安全的关键要素至关重要。这个REU网站的意义在于，它响应了这个国家的需求，并将通过培养高素质的学生成为商业光子学领域的关键贡献者，基础光子科学和工程前沿的领导者，以及全国高校最好的教育工作者来提高我们国家的能力。此外，该REU将通过优先考虑代表性不足的群体成员，社区大学学生和缺乏大型STEM研究项目的机构的学生，增加研究生水平光子学研究和工作场所的多样性，所有这些都通过已经连接到罗切斯特大学和光学研究所的管道进行。罗切斯特大学的纳米光子学、量子光子学和视觉/生物医学光学将使参与学生参与纳米科学光子学研究的前沿，生物科学和量子科学，同时为他们提供经验，以认识到优秀的职业机会，无论是学术和工业为基础，在光子学。为了使以前的可能REU计划将受益于现有的罗切斯特大学的行政和学生支持基础设施，光学研究所与当地罗切斯特光子产业的紧密联系（通过罗切斯特区域光子集群），与两个地区社区学院和合作伙伴本科大学的有意义的关系，以及该研究所的工业协会计划及其相关的暑期学校。 REU网站还将推进如何最好地培训和激励本科研究人员的知识。多个形成性和总结性评估将衡量学生在夏季和随后几年的成长，和导师/学生的联系将延伸到夏季之后，让REU的参与者回到罗切斯特大学参加该研究所的工业协会一年两次的研讨会。该网站部分由半导体研究公司向国家科学基金会提供的资金支持。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并已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 REU Site: Nanophotonics, Quantum Photonics, and Vision/Biomedical Optics at the University of Rochester will engage participating students in the frontiers of photonics research in nanoscience, bioscience and quantum science while at the same time providing them with experiences to recognize the excellent career opportunities, both academic and industry based, available in photonics. The expected outcomes of the REU are (1) growth in participants’ photonics knowledge and awareness of photonics as a career, (2) increased diversity in the pool of students entering research and careers in photonics, and (3) research productivity that rewards both REU students and faculty/graduate student mentors. It has been widely recognized that understanding and controlling the most elemental unit of light – the photon – is essential to innovating light-based technology as well as evolving critical elements of our nation’s defense and security. The significance of this REU Site is that it responds to this national need and will enhance our nation’s capabilities by training top-quality students to become key contributors in the commercial photonics sector, leaders on the frontiers of fundamental photonic science and engineering, and the very best educators in colleges and universities across the nation. Additionally, this REU will increase diversity in graduate-level photonics research and the workplace by prioritizing members of underrepresented groups, community college students, and students from institutions lacking large STEM research programs, all via pipelines already connected to the University of Rochester and The Institute of Optics.The REU Site: Nanophotonics, Quantum Photonics, and Vision/Biomedical Optics at the University of Rochester will engage participating students in the frontiers of photonics research in nanoscience, bioscience and quantum science while at the same time providing them with experiences to recognize the excellent career opportunities, both academic and industry based, available in photonics. To make the previous possible the REU program will benefit from the existing University of Rochester administrative and student support infrastructure, the Institute of Optics’s strong ties with the local Rochester photonics industry (through the Rochester Regional Photonics Cluster), meaningful relationships with both area community colleges and partner undergraduate universities as well as the Institute’s Industrial Associates program and its associated Summer School. The REU site will also advance the knowledge of how best to train and inspire undergraduate researchers. Multiple formative and summative assessments will measure students’ growth during the summer and in subsequent years, and the mentor/student connections will stretch beyond the summer by bringing REU participants back to the University of Rochester to participate in the Institute’s Industrial Associates biannual symposium.This Site is supported in part by funds provided to the National Science Foundation by the Semiconductor Research Corporation.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.