California State University Undergraduate Research Experiences (CSUURE) in Astronomy

圣地亚哥州立大学的Eric Sandquist博士和合作者将继续在圣地亚哥州立大学建立本科生研究体验(REU)网站。该项目的导师将来自SDSU、加州州立大学(CSU)其他校区和堪萨斯大学。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量(亮度测量)。拟议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、恒星身体、日食双星、疏散和球状星团、太阳系外行星和矮星系。SDSU REU计划将为没有机会接触到活跃的天文学教师的学生提供研究经验，促进其他校园的学生培训和研究人员的研究，并鼓励在不授予博士学位的校园进行研究(该计划中的物理系或天文学系都没有授予博士学位)，以及为不成比例地服务于在物理科学方面代表性不足的少数民族学生(SDSU的40%，CSU系统的55%)的学生提供大量的研究。根据这一更新计划，计划从社区大学招聘的学生将接触到数千名几乎没有机会进行研究的学生。该网站由美国国家科学基金会天文科学部资助。

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 funded by the NSF Division of Astronomical Sciences.