Interdisciplinary Reseach Experiences for Teachers

该奖项支持更新威斯康星大学密尔沃基分校的教师研究经验网站。该奖项将在每个暑期资助七名教师和两名教师进行为期一年的研究活动。高中和中学的科学教师、职前教师，特别是小学教师，将在教师导师和教师导师的指导下，接触到化学系、地球科学系和物理系以及威斯康星大学天文馆的尖端研究(后者将是前一个项目中有经验的实习生)。RET实习生的学习、开发和参与研究的具体领域可能包括：射电天文学和脉冲星探测(ARCC@UWM)、引力波探测(LIGO)、高温超导、测量生物系统中的分子电场和开发用于远程环境监测的新型光纤传感器、使用扫描隧道显微镜的纳米科学和纳米技术、单荧光分子等纳米物体的成像和操纵、X射线光电子能谱、调查威斯康星州东北部奶牛粪和私人饮用水井中的抗生素耐药性细菌、大分子结晶学、酶反应的动力学和热力学研究，利用具有光谱和时间分辨率的激光扫描荧光显微镜对活细胞中的蛋白质活动和相互作用进行成像，分析来自Pierre Auger天文台的超高能宇宙射线产生的空气簇射数据，以及不列颠哥伦比亚省北部和冰岛最近熔岩流动的岩石学。该计划的实习生不仅将通过在教师导师的指导下从事适当的研究活动来加强他们的知识基础，而且在教师导师的指导下，他们还将开发一个以探究为基础的教学项目，该项目将在课堂上实施；在核心暑期计划之后的春季威斯康星州科学教师协会年会上向全州观众展示；并作为UWM RET网站上面向全国受众的网络资源。该奖项由物理系和化学系资助。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experience for Teachers site at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. The award will support seven teachers per summer and two teachers for year long research activities. High- and middle-school science teachers, pre-service teachers, and, exceptionally, elementary-school teachers, will be exposed to cutting edge research in the departments of Chemistry, Geosciences, and Physics, and the UWM Planetarium under the guidance of faculty mentors and teacher mentors (the latter will be experienced interns from the previous program). Specific areas of study, development, and research participation for RET interns may include: radio astronomy and pulsar detection (ARCC@UWM), gravitational wave detection (LIGO), high temperature superconductivity, measurement of molecular electric fields in biological systems and the development of novel optical fiber sensors for remote environmental monitoring, nanoscience and nanotechnology using scanning tunneling microscopy, imaging and manipulation of nanoscale objects such as single fluorescent molecules, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, investigation of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in dairy manure and private drinking water wells in Northeast Wisconsin, Macromolecular Crystallography, kinetic and thermodynamic investigation of enzyme reactions, imaging of protein activity and interactions in living cells using laser-scanning fluorescence microscopy with spectral and temporal resolution, analysis of data of air showers produced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays from the Pierre Auger Observatory, and petrology of recent lava flows from northern British Columbia and Iceland. The interns in this program will not only strengthen their knowledge base by engaging in suitable research activities under the guidance of a faculty mentor, but, with the guidance of the teacher mentors, they will also develop an inquiry-based teaching project that will be: implemented in the classroom; presented to a state-wide audience at the annual Wisconsin Society of Science Teachers conference in the spring following the core summer program; and developed as a web-based resource for a national audience on the UWM RET website. This award is funded by the Division of Physics and the Division of Chemistry.