REU and RET Site in Physics at UTRGV

UTRGV 物理 REU 和 RET 站点

• 批准号: 2244167
• 负责人: Volker Quetschke
• 金额: $ 49.92万
• 依托单位: The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2023-05-01 至 2026-04-30
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2244167&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; RET; Site; Physics; UTRGV; REU; RET; Site; Physics; UTRGV

This award supports the renewal of the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site in physics at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. The site will support twelve undergraduates and one teacher per year in research projects in gravitational wave detection, lasers and optics, radio and optical astronomy, blue energy, or materials science. The projects can be theoretical, computational, experimental, observational and/or oriented towards applied physics. As the students' research experience grows they will come closer to being independent, self-reliant scientists. The site will incorporate one high school teacher from the Rio Grande Valley area who will develop smaller subprojects to be carried on with their students during the school year. The research projects in this REU and RET site will focus on research in frontier areas of phenomenological, experimental and applied physics at state-of-the-art facilities. The topics offered cover data analysis and gravitational wave detection projects, laser and optics projects from the area of gravitational wave detector instrumentation, radio, optical and X-ray astronomy projects, sustainable energy generation projects and nanoscience and advanced materials science projects. The program will have a close mentoring and guidance system from the faculty in place during the entire duration, fostering interaction and active participation by students and teachers through seminars, lunch meetings, colloquia and presentations. This REU site has research topics for the undergraduates that advance topics that fall within the goals of the Windows on the Universe Big Idea.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.

该奖项支持了德克萨斯里奥格兰德大学物理学的教师（RET）网站的本科生（REU）的研究经验的更新。该地点将在重力波检测，激光器和光学，无线电和光学天文学，蓝色能量或材料科学方面的研究项目中支持十二名本科生和一名教师。这些项目可以是理论，计算，实验性，观察性和/或针对应用物理学的定向。随着学生的研究经验的增长，他们将更加接近独立，自力更生的科学家。该网站将结合一位来自里奥格兰德山谷地区的高中老师，他们将在学年期间与学生一起开展较小的副本。该REU和RET网站上的研究项目将重点关注现象学，实验和应用物理学领域的研究项目。该主题提供了来自重力波检测器仪器，无线电，光学和X射线天文学项目，可持续能源生成项目以及纳米科学以及高级材料科学项目的涵盖数据分析和重力波检测项目，激光和光学项目。该计划将在整个期间都有来自教职员工的密切指导和指导系统，从而通过研讨会，午餐会议，口服和演讲来促进学生和老师的互动和积极参与。 该REU网站为本科生提供了研究主题，即在宇宙大意上的窗户目标范围内推进了主题。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子和更广泛影响的评估评估标准来通过评估来获得支持的。