REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Cornell University

该奖项支持康奈尔大学天文学和天体物理学本科生研究体验(REU)网站。该项目旨在为来自全国各地的本科生提供机会，积极参与涵盖从太阳系到黑洞周围极端环境，再到遥远的宇宙和宇宙最早时刻的广泛科学前沿的研究。学生们将与个别教员合作开展一项重点研究项目。此外，他们还将参加专门为使他们接触一系列研究课题、技术和前沿设施以及设计、建造和运作主要设施和特派团的程序而专门设计的一系列讲座和讲习班。虽然主要的指导责任将由教师承担，但研究小组内部的互动将提供与更多初级专业人员的联系，如研究生和博士后，以及工程师和技术人员。学生将有机会使用当地的资源和设施，并将学习如何访问和使用公共数据库和软件工具。在我们居住的乡村校园组织的活动，有时与我们大学内的其他本科生研究项目相协调，将提供机会让学生接触更广泛的科学领域，并在比我们自己的项目更大的规模上刺激对科学研究的性质、方法论和伦理的理解。该计划将鼓励导师带学生进行观察旅行，帮助开发出版物和其他演示文稿，并将他们送到专业会议上。学生们还将参加一些旨在解决与研究生院和科学职业相关的问题的活动。学生将根据成绩进行选择，但该计划的目标是招收不同的学生群体，包括来自代表性不足的群体和研究基础设施有限的学院和大学的学生。

This award supports the Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site in Astronomy and Astrophysics at Cornell University. The program aims to provide undergraduate students from across the country with the opportunity to engage actively in research covering a broad swath of the science frontier from the Solar System to the extreme environments surrounding black holes to the distant reaches and earliest moments of the universe. Students will work with individual faculty on a focused research project. In addition, they will also participate in a series of lectures and workshops designed particularly to expose them to a range of research topics, techniques and forefront facilities as well as the processes by which major facilities and missions are designed, constructed and operated. While primary mentoring responsibility will lie with the faculty, interactions within research groups will provide contact with more junior professionals such as graduate students and postdoctoral students as well as engineers and technical staff. Students will have access to local resources and facilities and will learn how to access and use public databases and software tools. Organized activities on our residential rural campus, sometimes in coordination with other undergraduate research programs within our university, will offer the opportunity to expose the students to broader science areas and to stimulate understanding of the nature, methodology and ethics of scientific research on a scale larger than our own program. The program will encourage mentors to take students on observing trips, to assist with development of publications and other presentations, and to send them to professional meetings. Students will also participate in several activities designed to address issues related to graduate school and science as a career. Students will be selected on merit, but the program will aim to recruit diverse student cohorts including students from underrepresented groups and from colleges and universities with limited research infrastructure.