REU Site: Physics/JILA

该奖项支持更新科罗拉多大学/JILA本科生研究经验(REU)网站。该网站每年将支持8名学生进行为期10周的暑期研究。该REU项目的智力重点是物理学，本科生与优秀的教师结对在许多物理领域进行尖端研究，包括原子、分子和光学物理、生物物理、凝聚态物理、高能物理、核物理、等离子体物理、量子物理、量子信息科学和物理教育研究。虽然暑假的主要重点是每个学生各自的研究实验室，在那里学生应该至少掌握一项大型任务的一部分，但在项目期间还会有各种各样的其他活动。这些课程包括伦理学、电子学和机械加工课程，以及针对学生的实验室参观和每周一次的科学研讨会系列。该项目以每一位REU学生一天的演讲结束。特别努力包括妇女和少数群体的大量参与，以及来自较小机构的学生，这些机构没有那么多的研究机会。这一计划符合美国国家科学基金会的目标，即培养一支多元化的、具有国际竞争力的科学和工程队伍。积极的研究经验是吸引有才华的本科生并将他们留在科学和工程领域职业生涯的最有效方式之一。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Colorado/JILA. The site will support eight students per year for ten weeks of summer research. The intellectual focus of this REU program is physics, and undergraduate students are paired up with preeminent faculty to do cutting-edge research in many fields of physics, including atomic, molecular, and optical physics, biophysics, condensed matter physics, high energy physics, nuclear physics, plasma physics, quantum physics, quantum information science, and physics education research. While the main emphasis of the summer is centered on each student's individual research lab, where the students are expected to master at least a part of a large task, a variety of other activities take place during the program. These include ethics, electronics, and machining classes, a program on "Getting Into Grad School," as well as lab tours and a weekly science seminar series aimed at the students. The program culminates with a day of presentations given by each of the REU students. Special efforts are made to include significant participation levels from women and minorities, as well as from students coming from smaller institutions that do not have as many research opportunities. This program fits in with the NSF goal of developing a diverse and internationally competitive scientific and engineering workforce. Active research experience is one of the most effective ways to attract talented undergraduates and retain them in careers in science and engineering.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.