REU Site: Physics and Chemistry Research at The College of Wooster

REU 网站:伍斯特学院物理和化学研究

基本信息

  • 批准号:
    2348889
  • 负责人:
  • 金额:
    $ 33.11万
  • 依托单位:
  • 依托单位国家:
    美国
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
  • 财政年份:
    2024
  • 资助国家:
    美国
  • 起止时间:
    2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
  • 项目状态:
    未结题

项目摘要

NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARYSupported by the Division of Materials Research, this REU site in the Physics and Chemistry departments at The College of Wooster involves students as collaborators on innovative research projects in materials science, physics, and chemistry. Each summer, 8 students will participate in a 9-week program focused on research and including additional professional development and outreach activities. As faculty at an institution specializing in undergraduate research, the REU mentors are experienced in transforming students from tentative beginners into confident scientists. The program particularly targets beginning students and community college students and prepares and motivates them for future careers in science through a direct, mentored research experience. A welcoming and collaborative environment provides a place for students who have been marginalized in the STEM community to thrive. The program's range of research areas provides an intellectual home for students who use experimental and computational methods to explore interdisciplinary topics across materials science, physics, and chemistry. Projects address systems and phenomena across vastly different scales, ranging from molecules to galaxies. Through engaging students in these projects and professional development, the program results in broadening educational access, developing professional interest in STEM, and increasing the competitiveness of the American workforce.TECHNICAL SUMMARYThe broad goal of the College of Wooster REU program is to create an atmosphere conducive to high-quality science in a vibrant research community where students increase their confidence and sense of belonging. Through a balance of experiment, computation, and theory, the REU site advances knowledge in the fields of condensed matter, granular matter, soft matter physics, optics, chemical physics, pattern formation, sol-gels, and astrophysics. Research students in granular matter develop video analysis techniques to characterize the avalanche dynamics on a critical pile of beads to investigate universal scaling laws. Other students measure the thermodynamic properties of swellable organically modified silica, a "swellable glass" that absorbs many times its own mass in organic liquids like acetone and has applications in industrial and environmental remediation. Using recent images from the James Webb Space Telescope, astrophysics researchers investigate the evolution of clumpy galaxies. All research projects are designed so that even novice undergraduates can make significant scientific contributions. They become practicing scientists through research, oral and poster presentations, and comprehensive written reports. After the end of the program, faculty continue mentoring student participants to prepare conference presentations and peer-reviewed publications together. As part of continual improvement of mentoring and student training, the program leaders also will develop a framework to explicitly expand students' scientific argumentation skills. These tools for developing and assessing student critical thinking skills in scientific argumentation will be useful to other programs seeking to bring effective, high-quality research mentoring to a broader, more diverse student population.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.
非技术性总结由材料研究部支持,这个REU网站在物理和化学系在伍斯特学院涉及学生在材料科学,物理和化学创新研究项目的合作者。每年夏天,8名学生将参加为期9周的研究计划,包括额外的专业发展和推广活动。作为一个专门从事本科研究的机构的教师,REU的导师在将学生从尝试性的初学者转变为自信的科学家方面经验丰富。该计划特别针对初学者和社区大学生,并通过直接,指导的研究经验为他们未来的科学职业做好准备和激励。一个温馨和协作的环境为那些在STEM社区中被边缘化的学生提供了一个茁壮成长的地方。该计划的研究领域范围为使用实验和计算方法探索跨材料科学,物理和化学的跨学科主题的学生提供了一个智力家园。项目涉及从分子到星系的不同尺度的系统和现象。通过让学生参与这些项目和专业发展,该计划扩大了教育机会,培养了对STEM的专业兴趣,并提高了美国劳动力的竞争力。技术概述伍斯特REU计划的广泛目标是在充满活力的研究社区中创造一种有利于高质量科学的氛围,让学生增加自信心和归属感。 通过实验,计算和理论的平衡,REU网站在凝聚态,颗粒物质,软物质物理,光学,化学物理,图案形成,溶胶-凝胶和天体物理学领域的知识进步。 颗粒物质的研究生开发视频分析技术,以表征临界珠堆上的雪崩动力学,以研究普遍的标度律。其他学生测量可膨胀的有机改性二氧化硅的热力学性质,这是一种“可膨胀的玻璃”,在丙酮等有机液体中吸收其自身质量的许多倍,并在工业和环境修复中应用。利用詹姆斯韦伯太空望远镜的最新图像,天体物理学研究人员研究了星团星系的演化。 所有研究项目的设计,使即使是新手本科生可以作出重大的科学贡献。他们通过研究,口头和海报展示以及全面的书面报告成为实践科学家。课程结束后,教师继续指导学生参与者一起准备会议演示文稿和同行评议的出版物。作为持续改进指导和学生培训的一部分,项目负责人还将制定一个框架,以明确扩大学生的科学论证技能。这些用于发展和评估学生在科学论证中的批判性思维技能的工具将有助于其他旨在为更广泛、更多样化的学生群体提供有效、高质量的研究指导的项目。该奖项反映了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。

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REU Site: Physics and Chemistry Research at Wooster
REU 网站:伍斯特物理和化学研究
  • 批准号:
    1852095
  • 财政年份:
    2019
  • 资助金额:
    $ 33.11万
  • 项目类别:
    Standard Grant
Collaborative Research: Effect of Cohesion on Size and Statistics of Avalanches in Granular Systems
合作研究:颗粒系统中内聚力对雪崩大小和统计的影响
  • 批准号:
    1336116
  • 财政年份:
    2014
  • 资助金额:
    $ 33.11万
  • 项目类别:
    Continuing Grant

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