REU Site: Physics and Astronomy Research at Rutgers University

这个REU网站每年夏天将有10名学生来到罗格斯大学物理和天文学系，在那里他们将花费10周的时间从事天文学、粒子(核物理和高能)物理、凝聚态物理和物理教育方面的前沿研究。学生还将参加实地考察和职业发展活动，教育他们在物理和天文学(以及其他领域)的研究行为和职业前景。大多数参与者将是从不同的本科院校招募的大三和大四学生。REU的参与者将包括大量来自物理学代表性不足的群体和/或研究机会有限的机构的学生。通过提高他们进行研究的能力和信心，并为他们提供定义和实现他们的教育和专业目标所需的信息和工具，REU网站将扩大他们对物理和天文学社区的参与。该项目还特意加入了一些元素，旨在刺激连锁反应，因为学生们会回到自己的母校，把他们的经验带到他们的同龄人参与科学和研究的过程中。在正式和非正式的环境中，学生们将受益于彼此的互动，与他们的教员导师和指定的研究生“近同行”导师，与罗格斯大学本科生物理和天文学专业的学生，以及来自罗格斯大学以外在完全不同的科学领域工作的不同的共同居住的同龄人群体。中心目标是为罗格斯大学以外的REU学生提供与系内学生多年来一直接受的相同的高质量指导和指导。REU的参与者将从事多个领域的前沿研究，在暑期项目结束时以两种形式展示他们的工作成果，作为在下一学年的专业会议上展示的前奏(在许多情况下，努力撰写一篇经评审的论文)。参与这项提议的教师导师是一群充满活力、合群、知识多样化、资金充足、屡获殊荣的科学家-教育家，他们拥有令人兴奋的研究计划和与本科生合作的出色记录。他们丰富的导师经验源于系和大学对本科生研究的坚定承诺，包括将成为关键合作伙伴的科学与工程研究(RISE)计划。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 REU site will bring ten students per summer to the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Rutgers, where they will spend ten weeks doing forefront research in astronomy, particle (nuclear and high energy) physics, condensed matter physics, and physics education. The students will also engage in a program of field trips and professional development activities that educate them about the conduct of research and the prospects for careers in (and beyond) physics and astronomy. Most participants will be rising juniors and seniors, recruited from a diverse set of undergraduate institutions. REU participants will include significant numbers of students from groups underrepresented in physics and/or institutions with limited research opportunities. By improving their capabilities and confidence in doing research and arming them with the information and tools they need to define and achieve their educational and professional goals, the REU site will broaden participation in the physics and astronomy communities. The program also deliberately incorporates elements intended to stimulate a ripple effect, as students return to their home institutions and bring their experiences to bear on the engagement of their peers in science and research. In a mixture of formal and informal settings, students will benefit from interacting with each other, with their faculty mentors and assigned graduate student "near-peer" mentors, with Rutgers undergraduate physics and astronomy majors, and with a diverse co-residential peer group from outside Rutgers working in completely different scientific fields. The central objective is to provide the same high-quality mentorship and guidance to REU students from outside Rutgers that the department’s own students have been receiving for many years. REU participants will engage in cutting-edge research in multiple areas, presenting the results of their work in two formats at the end of the summer program as a prelude to presenting it at a professional conference (and in many cases, working towards a refereed paper) during the ensuing academic year. The faculty mentors involved in this proposal, are a vibrant, collegial, intellectually diverse, well-funded, and award-winning set of scientist-educators with exciting research programs and excellent records of working with undergraduates. Their extensive mentorship experience stems from strong commitments to undergraduate research by the department and university, including the Research in Science and Engineering (RiSE) program, which will be a key partner.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.