REU site: Consortium for Undergraduate Research Experience

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。喷气推进实验室（JPL）和洛杉矶地区城市大学之间的合作将使本科生研究经验联盟（CURE）本科生研究经验（REU）网站每年招募大约18名主要是少数民族和女性的学生，从事天文学、天体物理学和行星科学的前沿项目的研究经验。CURE项目的科学目标是喷气推进实验室研究导师定义的更大研究项目的一部分，通常是在正在进行或计划中的太空任务的背景下。CURE的学生在JPL的橡树林设施，JPL的桌山天文台，偶尔也在加州理工学院沉浸在科学中。他们帮助设计和建立实验，获取数据，分析数据，并提出结果。学生们有机会接触到他们本国机构无法接触到的研究导师和设施，并在JPL和专业会议上接触到科学界。该项目将为少数民族学生和女性提供研究经验，他们在科学劳动力和高等教育中代表性不足，从而鼓励他们选择科学或工程作为职业。学生们学习作为一个熟练和高度积极的团队的一部分工作；在非学术的专业环境中工作；培养专业态度，成为有价值的同事；培养对项目、对导师和对自己的责任感；逻辑思考，批判性和清晰地解决研究问题；并学习良好的科学沟通技巧。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). The collaboration between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Los Angeles-area urban colleges will enable the Consortium for Undergraduate Research Experience (CURE) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site to recruit approximately 18 mostly minority and women students per year for research experiences in cutting-edge projects in astronomy, astrophysics, and planetary science. The scientific goals of CURE projects are part of the larger research projects as defined by the JPL research mentors, often within the context of ongoing or planned space missions. CURE students are immersed in science at the JPL Oak Grove facility, at the JPL Table Mountain Observatory, and, occasionally, at Caltech. They help to design and build experiments, take data, analyze data, and present results. The students have access to the research mentors and facilities that are beyond the reach of their home institutions, and are exposed to the science community at JPL and at professional conferences. This program will provide research experiences for minority students and women, who are underrepresented in the science workforce and in higher education, and to thereby encourage them to select science or engineering as a career. The students learn to work as part of a skilled and highly motivated team; operate in a nonacademic, professional environment; develop a professional attitude and become valued colleagues; develop responsibility to their projects, to their mentors and to themselves; think logically, critically and clearly to solve research problems; and learn good scientific communication skills.