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

芝加哥大学物理系管理着一个本科生研究经验（REU）网站项目，旨在鼓励代表性不足的少数群体成员和女性从事物理学事业。申请来自全国范围内的物理和工程本科专业，其中一些重点是历史上的黑人学院和传统的女子学院。该计划的核心是每个学生参与者在个别教员的监督下进行为期10周的暑期研究项目。每个学生都有一个具体的、定义明确的研究任务，可以在10周的课程时间内完成。典型的项目分布在高能、宇宙射线和空间物理学、天文学和天体物理学、广义相对论、凝聚态物理学、非线性和非平衡现象、光学和太阳能、生物物理学、电子和离子显微镜等领域。这些研究经验是由实地考察阿贡和费米加速器实验室补充。此外，每年夏天，一系列的讲座是由教师提出，提供一些最重要的研究课题，目前追求物理学的概述。通过让大学预科科学教师参加我们的系列讲座，我们相信我们可以拓宽我们的范围，并将一些前沿研究的想法引入高中科学课堂。每个学生提交一份书面报告，描述她或他的研究，并在项目的最后两周进行正式的口头报告。物理REU为学生提供了接触物理的广度和统一性的机会。此外，它还提供了活动，使所有REU学生彼此接触，创造学生之间的同伴互动，增加了项目的兴奋和活力。我们正在通过利用我们观察到的REU参与者与研究生之间的良好关系来加强该计划。这将增加我们对项目的反馈，并提供更多与本科生年龄相近的榜样指导。

The University of Chicago Department of Physics administers a Research Experiences for Undergraduate (REU) site project targeted especially towards encouraging members of under-represented minority groups and women to pursue careers in physics. Applications are solicited nationally from undergraduate programs in physics and engineering with some emphasis on historically black colleges and traditional women's colleges. The core of the program for each student participant is a 10-week summer research project under supervision of an individual faculty member. Each student is given a specific, well-defined research task that can be completed within the 10-week duration of the program. Typical projects are distributed among the areas of high-energy, cosmic-ray and space physics, astronomy and astrophysics, general relativity, condensed-matter physics, non-linear and non-equilibrium phenomena, optics and solar energy, biophysics and electron and ion microscopy. These research experiences are complemented by field trips to Argonne and Fermi Accelerator Laboratories. In addition, each summer, a series of lectures is presented by faculty to provide an overview of some of the most important research topics currently pursued in physics. By having pre-college science teachers participate in our lecture series, we believe we can broaden our scope and introduce some of the ideas of cutting-edge research into high-school science classrooms. Each of the students submits a written report describing her or his research and makes a formal oral presentation during the last two weeks of the program. The Physics REU provides the students with an exposure to the breadth and unity of physics. In addition it provides the activities that bring all of the REU students into contact with one another to create the peer interactions among students that increase the program's excitement and vitality. We are enhancing the program by taking advantage of the excellent rapport we have observed between the REU participants and our graduate students. This will increase the feedback that we can get about the program as well as provide increased mentoring by role models close in age to the undergraduates.