Physics Research Experience for Undergraduates at Purdue University

普渡大学物理系将为12名本科生和2名科学教师提供研究经验，延续过去四年来为从事前沿研究的物理教师提供丰富项目的记录。每个参与者都将在普渡大学活跃的研究领域之一的教师指导下完成个人项目，这些领域包括天体物理、纳米科学、粒子物理、生物物理、高能核物理、基于加速器的质谱学、地球物理和凝聚态物理。REU计划旨在从全国各地挑选10名学术合格的学生，外加来自普渡大学的另外两名学生。我们每年的目标是使一半以上的参与者是女性，我们努力通过瞄准适当的学校和申请者来增加参与者的多样性。教师研究经验(RET)部分将完全纳入REU计划，但增加的重点是开发技术，以满足新的州和国家的科学教育目标。普渡大学的计划强调了一个完善的每周教程计划，包括建立实验技能的联合项目的小组体验，每周与代表物理学家不同职业道路的演讲者的研讨会，到费米实验室和高级光子源(Argonne)的实地旅行，以及独木舟旅行、球类运动、野餐等社交计划。该计划每年夏天以一个研究研讨会为高潮，为每个学生提供公开展示研究的专业经验。

The Physics Department of Purdue University will provide research experiences for twelve undergraduate students and two science teachers, continuing the record over the past four years of providing enriching projects with physics faculty conducting forefront research. Each participant will have his/her individual project with a faculty mentor in one of the areas of active research at Purdue, including astrophysics, nanoscience, particle physics, biological physics, high energy nuclear physics, accelerator-based mass spectrometry, geophysics, and condensed matter physics. The REU program aims to select ten academically qualified students from across the country, plus an additional two students from Purdue. Each year our goal is for more than half of the participants to be women, and we strive to increase the diversity of the participants by targeting appropriate schools and applicants. The Research Experience for Teachers (RET) component will be fully embedded into the REU program, but with an added focus of developing techniques for meeting new state and national goals in science education. The Purdue program emphasizes a well-rounded schedule of weekly tutorials for group experience with joint projects for building experimental skills, weekly seminars with speakers representing the diverse career paths for physicists, field trips to Fermilab and the Advanced Photon Source (Argonne), plus a social schedule of canoe trips, ball games, picnics, etc. The program culminates each summer with a research symposium, to give each student professional experience in public presentation of research.