A PAARE Program Between New Mexico State University, the National Solar Observatory, and the AFRL

该计划的目标是通过在少数族裔服务的大学、新墨西哥州州立大学(NMSU)、国家太阳天文台(NSO)和空军研究实验室(AFRL)空间气象卓越中心之间建立合作伙伴关系，提高天文研究和教育的多样性。来自后者的科学家永久驻扎在NSO的设施中。这一伙伴关系的主要重点是研究生教育。提供了一条完整的途径，从学生进入NMSU开始，到他/她过渡到教授职位。研究将针对伙伴机构有共同兴趣的三个领域：1)恒星活动的起源和预测，2)仪器开发，3)计算天体物理学。这些领域已经被NSO指定为长期研究领域，是AFRL空间气象卓越中心的核心任务，与NMSU教职员工的研究兴趣不谋而合。这一努力将招收优秀学生，而不分种族。然而，一旦达到成熟状态，将导致获得天文学专业学位的拉美裔博士数量增加50%。它还1)通过增加五个学术部门的外部合作活动来影响NMSU的研究，2)加强这些部门的研究生课程，3)培养能够在学术界、NSO和AFRL、通用动力和波音等企业以及联邦资助的国家设施和实验室工作的毕业生。空间天气预测模型与当今社会高度相关。地球空间天气的严重变化可能会危及卫星系统，扰乱全球通信网络、导航系统和电力配电网。为了避免与这些故障相关的社会经济损失，这些努力寻求改进空间天气预报，以便能够进行积极干预。

This proposal will be awarded using funds made available by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5).The goal of this program is to enhance diversity in astronomical research and education by establishing a partnership between the minority serving university, New Mexico State University (NMSU), the National Solar Observatory (NSO), and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) Space Weather Center of Excellence. Scientists from the latter group are permanently stationed at the NSO facilities. The primary focus of this partnership is graduate education. A complete pathway, starting with a student's admission to NMSU and ending with his/her transition into the professoriate is provided. Research will target three areas where the partner institutions have common interests: 1) the origins and prediction of stellar activity, 2) instrument development, and 3) computational astrophysics. These have been designated as long-term research fields by the NSO, are central to the mission of the AFRL Space Weather Center of Excellence, and coincide with NMSU faculty research interests.This effort will recruit superior students regardless of their ethnicity. However, once it reaches a mature state, it will lead to a 50% increase in the number of Hispanic Ph.D.s awarded in Astronomy. It also 1) impacts research at NMSU by increasing external collaborative activities in five academic departments, 2) enhances the graduate curricula in these departments, and 3) produces graduates who can work in academia, at the NSO and AFRL, in businesses such as General Dynamics and Boeing, and in federally-funded national facilities and laboratories. Predictive models of space weather are highly relevant to today's society. Severe changes in the Earth's space weather can compromise satellite systems, disrupt global communication networks, navigation systems, and electric power distribution grids. To avoid the socio-economic losses associated with these failures, these efforts seek to improve space weather predictions so that active interventions can take place.