REU Site: Physics/JILA

该奖项支持在科罗拉多/JILA的大学本科生（REU）网站的研究经验的更新。该网站将支持每年八名学生为期十周的夏季研究。该REU计划的智力重点是物理学，本科生与杰出的教师配对，在物理学的许多领域进行前沿研究，包括原子，分子和光学物理学，生物物理学，凝聚态物理学，高能物理学，核物理学，等离子体物理学，量子物理学，量子信息科学和物理教育研究。虽然夏季的主要重点是集中在每个学生的个人研究实验室，在那里学生预计将掌握至少一个大任务的一部分，各种其他活动发生在节目。其中包括伦理学、电子学和机械加工课程，一个关于“进入格拉德学校”的项目，以及实验室图尔斯参观和每周一次的针对学生的科学研讨会系列。该计划的高潮是由每个REU学生给出的一天的演讲。作出了特别的努力，使妇女和少数民族以及来自没有那么多研究机会的较小机构的学生大量参与。该计划符合NSF发展多元化和具有国际竞争力的科学和工程劳动力的目标。积极的研究经验是吸引有才华的本科生并留住他们从事科学和工程职业的最有效方法之一。该网站由国防部与NSF REU计划合作支持。该奖项反映了NSF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 supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Colorado/JILA. The site will support eight students per year for ten weeks of summer research. The intellectual focus of this REU program is physics, and undergraduate students are paired up with preeminent faculty to do cutting-edge research in many fields of physics, including atomic, molecular, and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, high energy physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, quantum physics, quantum information science, and physics education research. While the main emphasis of the summer is centered on each student's individual research lab, where the students are expected to master at least a part of a large task, a variety of other activities take place during the program. These include ethics, electronics, and machining classes, a program on "Getting Into Grad School," as well as lab tours and a weekly science seminar series aimed at the students. The program culminates with a day of presentations given by each of the REU students. Special efforts are made to include significant participation levels from women and minorities, as well as from students coming from smaller institutions that do not have as many research opportunities. This program fits in with the NSF goal of developing a diverse and internationally competitive scientific and engineering workforce. Active research experience is one of the most effective ways to attract talented undergraduates and retain them in careers in science and engineering. This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.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.