REU Site: Frontier Research and Training in Astronomy for the 21st Century

REU 网站：21 世纪天文学前沿研究和培训

• 批准号: 2244278
• 负责人: Shardha Jogee
• 金额: $ 39.31万
• 依托单位: University of Texas at Austin
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-03-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2244278&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Frontier; Research; Training

The University of Texas at Austin wishes to continue its 10-week summer REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) program hosting 8 students each year. Students will work closely with a diverse group of mentors from within the Astronomy Department to conduct theoretical and observational research in frontier areas of astronomy, including star formation, Solar System and exoplanet studies, stellar and galaxy evolution, dark matter/energy astrophysics, cosmology, and astronomical instrumentation. The students will have access to the facilities of the McDonald Observatory and the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), which are both affiliated with UT Austin. An emphasis is placed on summer research publication and all students will present their research at winter AAS meetings. Professional development activities (e.g., computational methods training from TACC and a week of hands-on research at McDonald Observatory) are also included. Other activities will focus on the development of confidence in underrepresented minorities (URM) and first-generation students. Students in the REU program will produce blogs, short videos, and StarDate Radio programs featuring their experiences and research. These products will be distributed to K-12 teachers at teacher professional workshops for further dissemination to students throughout Texas.Admission decisions are holistic and consider academic preparation and trajectory, grit/initiative, research engagement, community engagement, contributions to an inclusive campus, and other factors. The program has an ambitious goal of accepting at least 50% women and 50% URM into the program and will specifically not recruit from within UT Austin. The mentors are experienced and have received training in effective mentoring by the Texas Institute for Discovery Education in Science (TIDES). The pool of mentors is already diverse and committed to broadening participation in the STEM fields.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.

德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校希望继续其为期10周的夏季REU（本科生的研究经验）计划每年举办8个学生。学生将与天文学部内的一系列导师紧密合作，以在天文学的边境地区进行理论和观察性研究，包括恒星形成，太阳能系统和系外行星研究，出色和星系进化，暗物质/能量/能量的天文学，宇宙学，宇宙学和天文学仪器。学生将可以使用麦当劳天文台和德克萨斯州高级计算中心（TACC）的设施，这些计算中心都隶属于UT Austin。重点是夏季研究出版物，所有学生将在冬季AAS会议上展示他们的研究。还包括专业发展活动（例如，TACC的计算方法培训和在麦当劳观测活动的一周的动手研究）。其他活动将集中于对代表性不足的少数民族（URM）和第一代学生的信心发展。 REU计划中的学生将制作博客，简短的视频和标准的广播节目，其中包括他们的经验和研究。这些产品将分发给教师专业讲习班的K-12教师，以进一步向得克萨斯州的学生传播。入学决策是整体的，并考虑学术准备和轨迹，勇气/倡议，研究参与，社区参与，社区参与，对包容性校园的贡献以及其他因素。该计划的雄心勃勃的目标是将至少50％的女性和50％的URM接受该计划，并且特别不会从UT奥斯汀内部招募。这些导师经验丰富，并接受了德克萨斯州科学发现教育研究所（TIDES）的有效指导培训。导师库已经多样化，并致力于扩大对STEM领域的参与。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并且使用基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的影响标准，被认为值得通过评估来获得支持。