REU Site: Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers - the On-Ramp at Exit 9

该奖项支持在罗格斯大学物理和天文学系的本科生（REU）网站的新研究经验。 本科生将花十周时间进行天文学，高能/核物理和凝聚态物理的前沿研究。 学生还将参与专业发展活动的计划，教育他们关于研究的行为和物理学和天文学职业的前景，并为他们提供申请，获得录取和在研究生院取得成功的工具，作为迈向这些职业的第一步。 在正式和非正式环境的混合物中，学生将受益于相互互动，罗格斯大学本科物理和天文学专业，分配研究生“近同行导师”，以及来自罗格斯大学以外的不同同行群体在完全不同的科学领域工作。参与该项目的教师导师（包括五名APS研究员和四名NSF CAREER奖获得者）是一个热情，合议，智力多样，屡获殊荣的科学家教育家，具有令人兴奋的研究计划和与本科生合作的优秀记录。

This award supports a new Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers. Undergraduate students will spend ten weeks doing forefront research in astronomy, high-energy/nuclear physics, and condensed matter physics. The students will also engage in a program of professional development activities that educate them about the conduct of research and the prospects for careers in physics and astronomy, and that give them the tools for applying to, gaining admission to, and succeeding in graduate school as the first step towards those careers. In a mixture of formal and informal settings, the students will benefit from interacting with each other, with Rutgers undergraduate physics and astronomy majors, with assigned graduate student "near-peer mentors", and with a diverse peer group from outside Rutgers working in completely different scientific fields. The faculty mentors involved in this project(including five APS Fellows and four NSF CAREER award winners) are an enthusiastic, collegial, intellectually diverse, and award-winning set of scientist-educators with exciting research programs and excellent records of working with undergraduates.