REU Site: Research Experiences for Community College Students in Physics and Astronomy

本奖项全部（或部分）由《2021年美国救援计划法案》（公法117-2）资助。这个位于纽约市昆斯伯勒社区学院的本科生研究经验（REU）网站具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（STEM）职业做好准备。该网站的重点是为没有研究经验的社区大学学生提供研究机会。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。为学生提供的研究项目种类繁多，涉及不同的物理和天文学主题，包括黑洞、生物物理学、宇宙射线探测、x射线光谱学、声学和气候变化。由于提供的研究课题的多样性，学生有机会从事研究，兴奋他们，同时掌握技能，可以应用于学术之旅在许多方面。参与者将有机会使用大型国家数据库访问和分析大数据，这将使他们掌握理解和应用大量数据的技能。他们将学习计算方法来创建可以收集和操作数据的应用程序，以及从预测物理结果的基本方程运行大型模拟。他们将有机会亲自建造探测器，并协助收集和分析来自纽约各地合作伙伴的实验数据。皇后区社区学院的REU站点每年为12名社区学院的本科生提供机会。REU网站的目标之一是让学生在转入STEM学科的四年制大学时具备竞争力。除了与经验丰富的导师一起参与研究之外，学生们还将参与活动，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。数据处理和分析、构建和控制设备以及计算方法的技能可以应用到他们的学术道路和许多职业中。课程还将强调对科学交流与合作的关注，这是任何STEM学生在其旅程的各个方面的基本技能。在课程结束时，每个学生都将在研讨会上展示他们的工作成果。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This award is funded in whole (or in part) under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Queensborough Community College in New York City has a number of broader impacts that focus on providing research opportunities to undergraduates to help prepare them for future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) careers. The site focuses on providing research opportunities to students from community colleges who have had no prior research experience. The site has a strong plan to recruit students from groups underrepresented in physics. The research projects proposed for the students to engage in are varied and reach across different physics and astronomy topics including black holes, biophysics, cosmic ray detection, X-ray spectroscopy, acoustics, and climate change. Due to the diversity of the research topics offered the students have an opportunity to engage in research that excites them while mastering skills that can be applied to the academic journey in a number of ways. Participants will have the opportunity to access and analyze big data using large national databases which will give them skills in understanding and applying large amounts of data. They will learn computational methods to create applications that can collect and manipulate data as well as run large simulations from basic equations that will predict physical outcomes. They will have the opportunity to physically build detectors and assist in collecting and analyzing data from experiments with partners all over New York.The REU site at Queensborough Community College provides opportunities to twelve undergraduate students at community colleges per year. One of the goals of the REU site is to prepare the students to be competitive for transfer to a four-year college in a STEM discipline. In addition to participating in research with an experienced mentor, the students will engage in activities to ensure not only that their research stays on track but that they have an engaging collegial and scholarly experience. The skills of data handling and analysis, building and controlling equipment and computation methods can be applied to their academic path and many of their careers. A focus on scientific communication and collaboration will also be emphasized which is an essential skill for any STEM student in all aspects of their journey. By the end of the program, every student will present the results of their work in a seminar talk.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.