California State University Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSUURE) in Astronomy

Eric Sandquist博士（圣地亚哥州立大学，SDSU）和合作者将继续在圣地亚哥州立大学的本科生研究经验（REU）网站。该项目的导师将从SDSU、其他加州州立大学（CSU）校区和堪萨斯大学（University of Kansas）挑选。该计划的科学重点是观测天文学，特别是恒星和星系的光度测定（亮度测量）。提出的学生项目属于天文学基础的几个重要领域：超新星和距离尺度、恒星尸体、食双星、开放和球状星团、太阳系外行星和矮星系。在拉古纳山的望远镜上有大量的观测时间。SDSU REU项目将为无法接触到活跃的天文学教师的学生提供研究经验，促进其他校园的研究教师的学生培训和研究，鼓励在不授予博士学位的校园进行研究（该项目的物理或天文学院系都不授予博士学位），并为来自少数民族的学生提供不成比例的大量学生，这些学生在物理科学领域的代表性不足（SDSU占40%，CSU占55%）。在这个更新的项目下，计划从社区大学招聘的学生将增加数千名获得研究机会的学生。该网站由天文科学部和多学科活动数学和物理科学办公室共同资助。

Dr. Eric Sandquist (San Diego State University, SDSU) and collaborators will continue a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at San Diego State University. Mentors for the program will be drawn from SDSU, other California State University (CSU) campuses, and the University of Kansas. The scientific focus of the program is observational astronomy, specifically photometry (brightness measurements) of stars and galaxies. The proposed student projects fall within several important areas at the foundations of astronomy: supernovae and the distance scale, stellar corpses, eclipsing binary stars, open and globular star clusters, extrasolar planets, and dwarf galaxies. Large blocks of observing time are available to the program on Mount Laguna telescopes.The SDSU REU program will provide research experiences for students without access to active astronomy faculty, facilitate student training and research for research faculty at other campuses, and encourage research at campuses that do not grant Ph.D. degrees (none of the physics or astronomy departments in this program grant doctoral degrees) and that serve disproportionately large populations of students from ethnic groups that are underrepresented in the physical sciences (40% at SDSU and 55% in the CSU system as a whole). Planned recruitment from community colleges under this renewed program will reach thousands of additional students with little access to research opportunities.This site is co-funded by the Division of Astronomical Sciences and the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Office of Multidisciplinary Activities.