REU: Research Opportunities for Undergraduate Students in Laboratory and Space Physics at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

这笔赠款将为本科生提供积极参与实验室和空间物理研究的机会。这些机会包括NASA实验室高科技环境的特殊优势，实验室由致力于教育的研究人员提供指导。该研究小组从事实验和理论核物理研究、探测器开发和高能太阳耀斑调查。这一平衡的实验室测量、观察、分析和解释计划的重点是解决有关负责高能粒子加速、限制和传输的机制的基本物理性质的问题。关键团队成员每人都与NASA戈达德太空飞行中心有关联，该机构将是提供拟议研究环境的REU地点，美国天主教大学，学生将通过该机构就业。在上述领域，有九个适合本科生参与的具体研究课题可供选择。自1983年以来，已有20名本科生在该组织工作。在十名拥有学士学位的学生中，有八人攻读了科学和数学方面的高级学位。这将为学生的参与提供更坚实的基础，并将提供机会积极招收来自更广泛背景的学生，特别是那些来自科学界代表性不足的群体的学生。

This grant will provide opportunities for undergraduates to be active participants in laboratory and space physics research. These opportunities include the special advantages of a high- technology environment in a NASA laboratory with guidance provided by researchers who are, in addition, committed to education. The research team is engaged in experimental and theoretical nuclear physics studies, detector development, and high-energy solar flare investigations. This balanced program of laboratory measurements, observations, analysis, and interpretation is focused on addressing questions about the fundamental physical nature of mechanisms responsible for energetic particle acceleration, confinement, and transport. The key team members are each associated with NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, the institution will be the REU Site providing the proposed research environment, The Catholic University of America, the institution through which the students will be employed. Nine specific research topics in the aforementioned fields that are appropriate for undergraduate participation are available. Twenty undergraduates have worked with the group since 1983. Eight of the ten with baccalaureates have pursued advanced degrees in the sciences and in mathematics. This will provide a firmer foundation on which to base student involvement and will provide the opportunity to actively recruit students from a much broader range of backgrounds, especially those from groups underrepresented in the scientific community.