REU Site: Solar Physics at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian

在天体物理学中心，本科课程的这项研究经验将使八名本科生与太阳物理学研究人员配对，在夏季进行为期十周的新颖研究项目。这些项目将包括涉及数据分析或数值建模的科学项目，以及支持正在进行的仪器项目的工程项目。该计划将针对科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科的本科生，优先考虑传统上在STEM领域代表性不足的学生以及来自没有强大STEM研究机会的机构的学生。除了研究活动，学生将参加讲座，培训课程和小组活动，旨在学术和专业发展。 学生将在专业的科学会议上展示他们的研究项目的结果。 这些研究项目将广泛促进我们对空间天气这一社会相关危害的科学认识。这个REU网站的主要目标是：a）促进妇女和传统上代表性不足的群体参与科学研究，B）培养有才华和有前途的学生的独立性和创造力，并促进对物理学，天文学和工程学研究生学习的兴趣，c）展示课堂上获得的学术知识如何应用于现实世界的研究问题，d）加强数据分析的实践技能，计算机编程，理论，数值建模和通信，e）准备学生做出关于他们的近期和长期职业轨迹的合理选择，f）提供高质量的研究经验，将产生新的科学成果，g）发展能力和信心，在公共论坛上展示科学成果，和h）提高太阳物理学作为一个研究领域的意识。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标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This research experience for undergraduate program, at the Center for Astrophysics, will pair eight undergraduate students with researchers in solar physics to work on novel research projects for ten weeks in the summer. The projects will comprise science projects involving data analysis or numerical modeling, as well as engineering projects supporting ongoing instrumentation programs. The program will target students that are undergraduates in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics(STEM) disciplines with a preference for students that are traditionally underrepresented in STEM fieldsas well as those from institutions without strong STEM research opportunities. In addition to the research activities, students will take part in lectures, training sessions, and group activities intended for academic and professional development. Students will present the results from their research project at a professional scientific conference. The research projects will broadly contribute to our scientific understanding of space weather, a societally relevant hazard. The main objectives of this REU site are to a) foster participation by women and traditionally underrepresented groups in scientific research, b) cultivate independence and creativity in talented and promising students, and promote interest in graduate study in physics, astronomy, and engineering, c) demonstrate how academic knowledge acquired in the classroom applies to real-world research problems, d) strengthen practical skills in data analysis, computer programming, theory, numerical modeling, and communication, e) prepare students to make sound choices concerning their near-term and long-term career trajectories, f) provide a high-quality research experience that will produce novel scientific results, g) develop competence and confidence in presenting scientific results in a public forum, and h) increase awareness of solar physics as a field of study.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.