REU Site: Summer Research Projects in Contemporary Physics for Women and Minorities - Phase IV

芝加哥大学物理系建议继续管理一个专门针对女性和少数族裔的本科生研究经验(REU)网站项目。这项计划已经实施了九年，最重要的目标是鼓励妇女和代表不足的少数群体成员追求物理学的职业生涯。在全国范围内，物理和工程专业的本科生项目都在征集申请，特别是传统女子学院和历史上的黑人学院。针对每个学生参与者的计划的核心是在个别教员的监督下进行的研究项目。典型的学生项目分布在高能物理、宇宙线和空间物理、天文学和天体物理、广义相对论、凝聚态物理、光学和太阳能以及电子和离子显微镜等领域。这些研究经验通过实地考察和一系列讲座来补充。在课程的最后两周，每个学生都要做一个正式的口头报告，并提交一份书面报告来描述他或她的研究。该计划还包括一些定期的社交活动。该计划目前的结构是每年夏天支持14或15名学生，并与校园内较小的REU计划相结合，由跨学科材料研究科学与工程中心(MRSEC)和南极洲天体物理研究中心(CARA)独立支持。这些部分包括6到9名额外的学生，因此在过去的几年里，总共有大约20到23名学生在“同一屋檐下”参加了联合项目。

The University of Chicago Department of Physics proposes to continue to administer a Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) site project targeted especially for women and minorities. This program has been in effect for nine years now with the overriding objective being to encourage women and members of under-represented minority groups to pursue careers in physics. Applications are solicited nationally from undergraduate programs in physics and engineering with particular emphasis on traditional women's colleges and historically black colleges. The core of the program for each student participant is a research project under supervision of an individual faculty member. Typical student projects are distributed among the areas of high energy physics, cosmic ray and space physics, astronomy and astrophysics, general relativity, condensed matter physics, optics and solar energy, and electron and ion microscopy. These research experiences are complemented by field trips and a series of lectures. Each of the students makes a formal oral presentation during the last two weeks of the program and submits a written report describing his or her research. The program includes a number of regular social events as well. The program currently is structured to support fourteen or fifteen students each summer and has been combined operationally with smaller REU programs on campus supported independently by the interdisciplinary Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) and the Center for Astrophysical Research in Antarctica (CARA). These components include 6 to 9 additional students so that for the past few years a total of about 20-23 students have been participating "under one roof" in the combined programs.