REU Site: Broadening Participation and Resiliency in Physics

佐治亚理工学院将举办本科生研究体验（REU）项目，为不同的本科生提供全面的夏季研究机会。REU的意义在于它的发展和对下一代物理学家的持续支持。它的结构是通过提供(i)在包容的环境中提供高质量的研究经验，（ii）支持STEM领域成功的硬技能和软技能，以及（iii）将参与者嵌入到REU校友，导师和支持者的支持网络中，该网络远远超出了夏季。佐治亚理工学院物理REU项目的核心组成部分是与当地hbcu，克拉克亚特兰大大学，莫尔豪斯学院和斯佩尔曼学院的合作伙伴关系，优先为他们的学生提供12个REU职位中的4个。学生通过每周讨论他们的进展（周一指导聚会），物理学前沿系列研讨会和国家实验室之旅，接触到广泛的物理学。参加者将在为期三天的动手计算物理工作坊中获得及时的技术技能。在夏季之后，长期的指导和促进的同伴网络将改善结果。在一个支持性和包容性的环境中，高质量、身历其境的夏季研究体验，以及在佐治亚理工学院REU校友网络中加入志同道合的物理学家组成的多元化终身社区的可能性，将最终提高代表性不足的少数民族、女性和所有REU参与者的数量、成功和福祉，这些参与者在物理学或其他STEM领域接受高等教育。因此，这些活动通过推进物理领域，支持教育和多样性，培养新一代知识渊博，适应力强，准备充分的科学家，使他们能够追求最高目标，从而符合国家利益。佐治亚理工学院物理REU网站长期以来一直致力于扩大物理学的参与。NSF REU项目的目标是：(i)结合一系列专业和科学发展活动，提供高质量的包容性研究经验，（ii）激励和准备有弹性的本科生追求研究生学习并取得成功，（iii）聚集反映美国多样性的参与者骨干，（iv）吸引研究活动有限的机构的学生，(v)在夏季和整个职业生涯中继续参与参与者。（vi）促进佐治亚理工学院与亚特兰大大学中心联盟（AUCC：莫尔豪斯学院、斯佩尔曼学院、克拉克亚特兰大）之间的合作，以提高AUCC学生的包容性教育和研究机会。每个参与者将与一名在学生感兴趣的领域有活跃研究小组的教师一起工作。可用的物理研究项目将从量子材料到生命系统物理学到天体物理学。该项目将受益于与理学院其他学科的REU项目（约5个）的共享活动。在课程结束时，学生们将在全校范围内的REU研究研讨会上以海报和口头报告的形式分享他们的研究成果。学生将被鼓励在外部会议上发言，并且AUCC的学生可以选择在夏季之后继续在乔治亚理工学院进行研究。REU校友的长期指导将加强他们的应变能力，并支持他们在大学以外的旅程。REU校友之间的网络将通过“校友在热门席位”系列，时事通讯和GT REU物理链接组来促进。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。

Non-Technical Summary Georgia Tech will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program that provides holistic summer research opportunities to a diverse population of undergraduates. The REU's significance is its development and sustained support of the next generation of physicists. It is structured to address the leaky STEM pipeline for underrepresented minorities and women by providing (i) high-quality research experiences in an inclusive climate, (ii) hard and soft skills that support success in STEM fields, and (iii) embedding participants in a supportive network of REU alumni, mentors, and supporters that extends well beyond the summer. A central component of the Georgia Tech Physics REU program is its partnership with the local HBCUs, Clark Atlanta University, Morehouse College, and Spelman College, which prioritizes four out of twelve REU positions for their students. Students are exposed to a broad range of physics through weekly discussions of their progress (Monday Mentoring Meetups), a Frontiers in Physics seminar series, and a trip to a National Laboratory. Participants will gain timely technical skills in a three-day hands-on Computational Physics workshop. Beyond the summer, long-term mentoring and facilitated peer networking will improve outcomes. The combined impact of a high-quality, immersive summer research experience in a supportive and inclusive environment and the possibility of joining a diverse lifelong community of like-minded physicists in the Georgia Tech REU alum network will ultimately improve the number, the success, and the well-being of underrepresented minorities, women, and all REU participants who pursue higher education in physics or another STEM field. Hence, these activities serve national interest by advancing the field of physics, supporting education and diversity, and fostering a new generation of knowledgeable, resilient, and well-prepared scientists so that they may pursue their highest goals.Technical SummaryThe Georgia Tech Physics REU site has a longstanding focus on broadening participation in physics. The aims of this NSF REU program are to: (i) provide high-quality inclusive research experiences, in combination with a series of professional and scientific development activities, (ii) motivate and prepare resilient undergraduates to pursue, and succeed in, graduate study, (iii) assemble a cadre of participants that reflects the diversity of the U.S., (iv) attract students from institutions that have limited research activities, (v) continue engagement of the participants beyond the summer and throughout their careers, and (vi) foster collaborations between Georgia Tech and the Atlanta University Center Consortium (AUCC: Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark Atlanta) to enhance inclusive educational and research opportunities for students in the AUCC. Each participant will work with a faculty member who has an active research group in an area of interest to the student. Available physics research projects will range from quantum materials to the physics of living systems to astrophysics. The program will benefit from shared activities with established REU programs (~5) in other disciplines within the College of Sciences. At the end of the program, students share their research in poster and oral presentations at a College-wide REU Research Symposium. Students will be encouraged to present at external conferences, and AUCC students will have the option to continue research at Georgia Tech beyond the summer. Long-term mentoring of REU alums will strengthen their resilience and support their journeys beyond college. Networking between the REU alum cohorts will be facilitated via the 'Alum in the Hot Seat' series, a newsletter, and the GT REU Physics Linked In Group.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.