AstroCom NYC: A Partnership between New York City Astronomers

该奖项全部或部分根据2021年美国救援计划法案（公法117-2）资助。 AstroCom NYC是一个旨在通过加强和巩固纽约市研究天文学家之间的伙伴关系来改善城市少数民族学生获得天体物理研究机会的计划。合作伙伴是纽约为少数群体服务的机构、美国自然历史博物馆的天体物理学研究部门和熨斗研究所的计算天体物理学中心。一个新的计划，建立在原来的AstroCom NYC的成功，将巩固一个持久和可持续的伙伴关系，跨越所有五个行政区的纽约市提供集中，个性化的指导以及财政和学术支持，以城市大学的本科生在他们的研究，加上资源和机会，以进一步纽约市立大学教师与学生的研究。合作伙伴已经建立了一个正式的渠道，纽约市立大学的学生（其中大多数是贫穷的城市学生，来自STEM代表性不足的群体）参与天文学研究。AstroCom NYC的合作伙伴在指导本科生研究星系性质和演化、黑洞物理学、附近和低质量恒星、数值模拟和建模以及从无线电到伽马射线的观测天文学方面拥有多年的经验。他们也很有资格改善少数民族获得天体物理学研究的任务，因为他们强大的工作关系，专业知识和指导学生的热情与不同的背景，并从纽约市立大学内的参与候选人的准备池。AstroCom NYC是拥有大量不同少数民族人口的城市地区的典范，参与者广泛发表，在全国范围内提交进度报告，进行教师专业发展，该奖项反映了NSF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进行评估，被认为值得支持的搜索.

This award is funded in whole or in part under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2). AstroCom NYC is a program designed to improve the access of urban minority students to opportunities in astrophysical research by enhancing and solidifying partnerships between research astronomers in New York City. The partners are minority-serving institutions of the City University of New York (CUNY), and the astrophysics research departments of the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) and the Center for Computational Astrophysics (CCA) at the Flatiron Institute. A renewed program, which builds on the success of the original AstroCom NYC, will cement a lasting and sustainable partnership spanning all five boroughs of New York City to provide centralized, personalized mentoring as well as financial and academic support to CUNY undergraduates throughout their studies, plus the resources and opportunities to further CUNY faculty research with students.The partners have created a formal conduit for CUNY students (the majority of whom are poor, urban students from groups underrepresented in STEM) to participate in research in astronomy. The partners in AstroCom NYC have many years of experience mentoring undergraduates in research on galaxy properties and evolution, black hole physics, nearby and low-mass stars, numerical simulations and modeling, and observational astronomy from the radio to gamma rays. They are also well-qualified for the task of improving minority access to astrophysics research because of their strong working relationships, expertise and enthusiasm for mentoring students with diverse backgrounds, and the ready pool of participant candidates from within CUNY. AstroCom NYC serves as a model to urban areas with large and diverse minority populations, and the participants publish widely, present progress reports nationally, conduct faculty professional development, and serve on review panels based on their expertise in engaging diverse populations.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.