REU SITE: A Pilot Distributed REU Site Focused on Serving Physics and Astronomy Students from Comprehensive and Community Colleges

中央华盛顿大学（CWU）的分布式本科生研究经验（REU）试点项目每年夏天为六名本科生提供为期十周的机会，研究物理学科的主题，如激光、光学、光谱学、生物物理学、表面和材料科学以及天文学。REU的学生将在中央华盛顿大学、赖特州立大学、查尔斯顿学院、威斯康星大学拉克罗斯分校、奥斯汀皮伊州立大学、安柏瑞德航空大学或韦伯州立大学进行研究。除了与经验丰富的导师一起参与研究之外，学生们还将参加每周的活动，不仅确保他们的研究保持在正轨上，而且确保他们有一个引人入胜的大学和学术经历。这些活动将在CWU以及其他研究地点进行。到项目结束时，每个学生都要写一份研究报告，并以演讲或海报的形式展示他们的研究成果。这个REU网站将有许多更广泛的影响，其重点是为本科生提供研究机会，帮助他们为未来的科学、技术、工程和数学职业做好准备。此外，该网站还致力于为来自小型或没有物理研究项目的机构和社区大学的学生提供研究机会。该网站有一个强大的计划，从物理学中代表性不足的群体中招募学生。该项目将由一组评估人员领导的评估指导，评估人员将评估该分布式模型的工作效果，并随后传播发现。

This pilot for a distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Central Washington University (CWU) provides opportunities to six undergraduate students each summer for ten weeks of research on topics in physics disciplines such as lasers, optics, spectroscopy, biophysics, surface and materials science and in astronomy. The REU students will conduct the research at Central Washington University, Wright State University, College of Charleston, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Austin Peay State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, or Weber State University. In addition to participating in research with an experienced mentor, the students will engage in weekly activities to ensure not only that their research stays on track but that they have an engaging collegial and scholarly experience. These activities will take place at CWU, as well as at the other research sites. By the end of the program, every student will have written a research report and presented the results of their work in a talk or a poster. This REU site will have a number of broader impacts with its focus on providing research opportunities to undergraduates to help prepare them for future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. Additionally, the site focuses on providing research opportunities to students from institutions with small or no research programs in physics and from community colleges. The site has a strong plan to recruit students from groups underrepresented in physics. The project will be guided by an evaluation, led by a team of evaluators, who will assess how well this distributed model works and subsequently disseminate the findings.