Collaborative Research: Accessing the dark Arizona skies for research and education, a NCAT-BU partnership

合作研究：进入亚利桑那州黑暗的天空进行研究和教育，NCAT-BU 合作伙伴关系

• 批准号: 2319305
• 负责人: Dan Clemens
• 金额: $ 25.67万
• 依托单位: Trustees of Boston University
• 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: 2023-09-01 至 2026-02-28
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2319305&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Collaborative; Research; Accessing; dark; Arizona; Collaborative; Research; Accessing; dark; Arizona

A new partnership will be developed between North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT), a research-active Historically Black College or University (HBCU), and Boston University (BU), a university with institutional access to large, research-grade telescopes. The partnership has three key goals: enhancing astronomy research and education at NCAT by providing access to research-grade telescopes; raising the visibility of astronomy as a career at NCAT and at high schools, colleges, and universities in the area; and increasing the number of minoritized students pursuing graduate degrees in astronomy and astrophysics, including at NCAT and at BU. The program will offer summer undergraduate internship opportunities at BU for NCAT students, designed to promote scientific advancement and career training simultaneously, while improving student competitiveness for admission to graduate programs. They will conduct pre- and post-project assessments to measure how well the goals are met and the impact of the programs in the lives of the students involved.Scientifically, the partnership will build long-term research collaborations among faculty at NCAT and BU. Researchers at the partner institutions study a wide range of phenomena, including exoplanets, galactic magnetic fields, and active galactic nuclei and blazars. However, NCAT lacks institutional access to research-grade telescopes in dark sky locations. Boston University owns the 1.8m Perkins Telescope Observatory and has access to observing nights on the 4.3m Lowell Discovery Telescope. By combining resources, the partnership will be the engine that produces scientific journal articles as well as scientific and public talks, many led by students from both institutions. The partnership will enhance educational opportunities of NCAT students through hands-on experience obtaining and analyzing data from research-grade telescopes, provide NCAT students access to summer research opportunities at BU, and create pathways for students to pursue graduate studies in astronomy and subsequent leadership positions.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.

北卡罗来纳州农业和技术州立大学（NCAT）将建立新的合作伙伴关系，研究活性的历史悠久的黑人学院或大学（HBCU）和波士顿大学（BU），这是一所具有机构访问大型研究级望远镜的大学的大学（BU）。该合作伙伴关系有三个关键目标：通过提供研究级望远镜的访问来增强NCAT的天文学研究和教育；在NCAT以及该地区的高中，学院和大学中提高天文学的知名度；并增加了攻读天文学和天体物理学研究生学位的少数学生人数，包括在NCAT和BU。 该计划将为NCAT学生提供夏季的本科实习机会，旨在同时促进科学进步和职业培训，同时提高学生参加研究生课程的竞争力。他们将进行项目前和项目后的评估，以衡量实现目标的能力以及计划在相关学生生活中的影响。合作伙伴机构的研究人员研究了广泛的现象，包括系外行星，银河磁场以及活跃的银河核和大麻。但是，NCAT缺乏在黑暗天空位置进入研究级望远镜的机构通道。波士顿大学拥有180万珀金斯望远镜天文台，并可以在430万洛厄尔发现望远镜上观察到夜晚。通过结合资源，合作伙伴关系将是生产科学期刊文章以及科学和公众谈判的引擎，许多引擎由两个机构的学生领导。该伙伴关系将通过动手实践经验来获得研究级望远镜的数据，为NCAT学生提供访问BU的夏季研究机会，并为学生在天文学和随后的领导职位上寻求研究生研究的途径。这对NSF的法定任务和范围的范围，通过评估范围的范围，这是通过评估的范围，从而弥补了基础，从而，伙伴关系将在BU的夏季研究机会中增加途径。