Summer Undergraduate Research Experience at the University of Michigan

每年，本科生研究体验(REU)计划将允许来自美国各地的12名学生和密歇根大学的12名学生参加为期10周的暑期研究计划。学生从事物理学的所有领域的研究，包括高能、原子、核能、凝聚态物质和天体物理学。非密歇根州学生从全国各地的本科生项目中招收，特别强调来自小型文理学院和历史悠久的黑人院校的学生，这些院校通常无法提供这种范围的研究机会。REU的学生将完全融入一个与他们的智力兴趣相匹配的研究小组，并作为他们的教师导师的学徒工作。这项工作主要在密歇根大学的设施中进行，在那里可以获得一所大型研究型大学的所有资源。此外，还可以使用世界各地的主要实验设施，如费米实验室、阿贡的先进光源和斯隆数字天空勘测。除了研究工作，还开展了一系列其他教育和社会活动。这些活动包括商店和辐射安全课程，参观费米实验室等主要设施的实验室，由教职员工举办的关于学生研究机会的研讨会，以及与其他学生和教职员工的各种午餐和晚餐。这些活动使学生能够把他们的研究经验放在更广阔的视野中，建立一个专业联系网络，在科学的环境中发展专业技能。在项目接近尾声时，学生们向他们的同龄人和教师导师展示他们的成果。这些专题介绍可构成进一步活动的基础，例如在国家会议或出版物上的专题介绍。

Each year, the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program will allow twelve students from around the United States and twelve students from the University of Michigan to participate in a ten week summer research program. Students conduct research in all areas of physics; including high energy, atomic, nuclear, condensed matter, and astrophysics. Non-Michigan students are recruited from undergraduate programs throughout the country with a special emphasis on students from small liberal arts colleges and historically black institutions that, ordinarily, cannot provide this range of research opportunities. REU students will be fully integrated into a research group that matches their intellectual interests and work as apprentices to their faculty mentors. The work is primarily carried out at University of Michigan facilities, where all the resources of a large research university are available. In addition, there is access to major experimental facilities around the world, such as Fermilab, the Advanced Light Source at Argonne, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Research work is augmented by an extensive array of other educational and social activities. These include shop and radiation safety classes, a lab tour to a major facility such as Fermilab, seminars presented by faculty on research opportunities for students, and a variety of lunches and dinners with other students and faculty. These activities allow students to put their research experience in a wider perspective, to build a network of professional contacts, to and develop professional skillsin a scientific environment. Near the end of the project, the students present their results to their peers and faculty mentors. These presentations may form the basis for further activities, such as presentations at national meetings or publications.