REU SITE: A Pilot Distributed REU Site Focused on Serving Physics and Astronomy Students from Comprehensive and Community Colleges

REU SITE：分布式 REU 试点站点，专注于为综合大学和社区学院的物理和天文学学生提供服务

• 批准号: 1358879
• 负责人: Michael Jackson
• 金额: $ 15.5万
• 依托单位: Central Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-04-01 至 2016-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1358879&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; SITE; Pilot; Distributed; Site

This pilot for a distributed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Central Washington University (CWU) provides opportunities to six undergraduate students each summer for ten weeks of research on topics in physics disciplines such as lasers, optics, spectroscopy, biophysics, surface and materials science and in astronomy. The REU students will conduct the research at Central Washington University, Wright State University, College of Charleston, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, Austin Peay State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, or Weber State University. In addition to participating in research with an experienced mentor, the students will engage in weekly activities to ensure not only that their research stays on track but that they have an engaging collegial and scholarly experience. These activities will take place at CWU, as well as at the other research sites. By the end of the program, every student will have written a research report and presented the results of their work in a talk or a poster. This REU site will have a number of broader impacts with its focus on providing research opportunities to undergraduates to help prepare them for future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics careers. Additionally, the site focuses on providing research opportunities to students from institutions with small or no research programs in physics and from community colleges. The site has a strong plan to recruit students from groups underrepresented in physics. The project will be guided by an evaluation, led by a team of evaluators, who will assess how well this distributed model works and subsequently disseminate the findings.

该试点位于中央华盛顿大学 (CWU) 的本科生分布式研究体验 (REU) 站点，每年夏天为六名本科生提供为期十周的研究机会，涉及物理学科的主题，例如激光、光学、光谱学、生物物理学、表面和光学。材料科学和天文学。 REU 的学生将在中央华盛顿大学、莱特州立大学、查尔斯顿学院、威斯康星大学拉克罗斯分校、奥斯汀皮伊州立大学、安柏里德尔航空大学或韦伯州立大学进行研究。除了与经验丰富的导师一起参与研究之外，学生还将参加每周的活动，以确保他们的研究不仅保持在正轨上，而且拥有引人入胜的大学和学术经验。这些活动将在 CWU 以及其他研究地点进行。 在课程结束时，每个学生都将撰写一份研究报告，并在演讲或海报中展示他们的工作成果。 REU 网站将产生许多更广泛的影响，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、工程和数学职业做好准备。此外，该网站还致力于为来自拥有小型或没有物理研究项目的机构以及社区学院的学生提供研究机会。该网站有一个强有力的计划，从物理学领域代表性不足的群体中招收学生。该项目将以评估为指导，由一组评估人员领导，评估人员将评估这种分布式模型的工作效果，并随后传播研究结果。