REU and RET Site in Physics at UTRGV

该奖项支持在得克萨斯州格兰德河谷大学的物理本科生（REU）和教师（RET）的研究经验网站的更新。该网站将支持12名本科生和一名教师每年在引力波探测，激光和光学，射电和光学天文学，蓝色能源或材料科学的研究项目。这些项目可以是理论的，计算的，实验的，观测的和/或面向应用物理。随着学生研究经验的增长，他们将更接近独立，自力更生的科学家。该网站将吸收一名来自格兰德河河谷地区的高中教师，他们将开发较小的子项目，在学年期间与学生一起进行。在这个REU和RET网站的研究项目将集中在现象学，实验和应用物理学的前沿领域的研究在国家的最先进的设施。提供的主题包括数据分析和引力波探测项目，引力波探测器仪器领域的激光和光学项目，无线电，光学和X射线天文学项目，可持续能源发电项目以及纳米科学和先进材料科学项目。该计划将有一个密切的指导和指导系统，从教师到位在整个期间，通过研讨会，午餐会，座谈会和演讲，促进学生和教师的互动和积极参与。 这个REU网站为本科生提供了研究课题，这些课题属于宇宙大创意窗口的目标。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site in physics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The site will support twelve undergraduates and one teacher per year in research projects in gravitational wave detection, lasers and optics, radio and optical astronomy, blue energy, or materials science. The projects can be theoretical, computational, experimental, observational and/or oriented towards applied physics. As the students' research experience grows they will come closer to being independent, self-reliant scientists. The site will incorporate one high school teacher from the Rio Grande Valley area who will develop smaller subprojects to be carried on with their students during the school year. The research projects in this REU and RET site will focus on research in frontier areas of phenomenological, experimental and applied physics at state-of-the-art facilities. The topics offered cover data analysis and gravitational wave detection projects, laser and optics projects from the area of gravitational wave detector instrumentation, radio, optical and X-ray astronomy projects, sustainable energy generation projects and nanoscience and advanced materials science projects. The program will have a close mentoring and guidance system from the faculty in place during the entire duration, fostering interaction and active participation by students and teachers through seminars, lunch meetings, colloquia and presentations. This REU site has research topics for the undergraduates that advance topics that fall within 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.