NSF EAGER: QCC Undergraduate Research Opportunity in Solar and Atmospheric Physics

该奖项将支持在纽约市立大学/皇后区社区学院（QCC），西班牙裔和少数民族服务机构的太阳能，地球空间和大气物理学综合研究和教育计划的设计和实施。为期一年的研究经验有两个组成部分：1）在学年期间，学生将参加基于课程的研究，他们将对现实世界的问题进行研究; 2）在夏季，学生将被安排在合作机构的研究实习。该项目的具体目标包括：1）为QCC学生提供太阳和大气物理学的研究机会，早在他们的第一年; 2）开发太阳和大气物理学的教育材料; 3）增加学生人数，特别是代表性不足的少数民族，转到4年STEM课程;以及4）增加获得STEM学士学位的学生人数，特别是在地球科学相关领域。教育材料将使用来自NASA和NOAA的数据，以及将教育材料融入研究经验的模块化，跨学科概念方法来开发。该项目还将使用循证最佳做法（即，研究经验，指导，推广，招聘，丰富和伙伴关系，与4年制学院和机构），已被证明成功地提高保留，转移和社区大学生在西班牙裔服务机构的毕业率。该项目将使未来的研究人员了解空间气象对地球环境的影响，从而造福社会。通过与纽约市立大学/纽约城市学院NOAA CREST、科罗拉多大学的科罗拉多天体动力学研究中心和美国宇航局戈达德太空飞行中心空间气象研究中心的密切合作，该项目将在地球科学相关的STEM领域培训和留住代表性不足的社区大学学生。该项目将通过提高其知名度和多样性，为这一在相对较少的学院教授的学科提供服务。

This award will support the design and implementation of an integrated research and education program in solar, geospace and atmospheric physics at the CUNY/Queensborough Community College (QCC), a Hispanic and minority serving institution. The year-long research experience has two components: 1) during the academic year, students will be enrolled in course-based research where they will conduct research on real-world problems; and 2) during the summer, students will be placed in research internships at partner institutions. Specific objectives of this project include: 1) to provide QCC students with research opportunities in solar and atmospheric physics as early as their first year; 2) to develop educational materials in solar and atmospheric physics; 3) to increase the number of students, especially underrepresented minorities, that transfer to 4-year STEM programs; and 4) to increase the number of students that obtain Bachelor's degrees in STEM, especially in geosciences related fields. The educational materials will be developed using data from NASA and NOAA, and a modular, interdisciplinary concept approach that will integrate educational materials into the research experience. The project will also use evidence-based best practices (i.e., research experience, mentoring, outreach, recruitment, enrichment and partnership with 4-year colleges and institutions) that have proven successful at increasing the retention, transfer and graduation rates of community college students at Hispanic Serving Institutions. This project will offer benefits to society by providing future researchers with an understanding of space weather impacts on Earth's environment. Through a strong collaboration with CUNY/City College of New York NOAA CREST, University of Colorado's Colorado Center for Astrodynamics Research, and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Space Weather Research Center, the project will train and retain underrepresented community college students in geosciences related STEM fields. This project will provide a service to the discipline, which is taught at relatively few colleges, by increasing both its visibility and diversity.