The American Museum of Natural History was awarded a $339,518 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Earth Sciences under the Geosciences program (CFDA 47.050). The grant will fund an Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site for collaborative research in Earth and planetary science and astrophysics at the Museum in collaboration with the City University of New York from March 1, 2022 through February 28, 2025. The grant will support research opportunities for...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site award provides $300,000 over three years to Northern Arizona University (NAU), Lowell Observatory, and the USGS Astrogeology Science Center to host an astronomy and planetary science research program. The project will pair 10 undergraduate students per year with scientists from these organizations to conduct astrophysics research across a range of topics, including planetary, solar, stellar, and galactic...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Project Grant award, under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) federal grant program, provides funding of $462,122 to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) to support a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site focused on multi-messenger astrophysics. The REU program will train the next generation of scientists in gravitational wave detection, astrophysical data analysis, observational astronomy, and theoretical modeling....
This Project Grant award of $460,000 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Federal Grant Program (CFDA 47.049) supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Kansas. The objective is to expose 10 undergraduate participants per summer for 10 weeks to research in astronomy, astroparticle physics, high energy theory, and condensed matter theory and experiment. Participants will develop scientific writing, presentation,...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports the renewal of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site in computational astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). The $598,900 award will fund an 8-week summer research program that will recruit and train 10 students annually, primarily from community colleges, in astrophysical research methods and tools with an emphasis on...
This Project Grant award, valued at $548,202.00, was provided by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) to the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The funding will support a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in astronomy and astrophysics over a 3-year period from May 2025 to April 2028. The REU program aims to provide foundational, hands-on research experiences to 8 undergraduate students each summer, working...
This National Science Foundation (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) Project Grant award in the amount of $464,991 will fund a 10-week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) program in physics and astronomy at the University of Minnesota. The program will enable 10 undergraduate physics and astronomy students, primarily from smaller colleges, to participate in cutting-edge research supervised by faculty. Students will gain hands-on experience transitioning from...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Lehigh University. The $464,339 award from May 1, 2025 to April 30, 2028 will provide 10 undergraduate students each summer the opportunity to participate in 10 weeks of research across a diverse range of physics fields, including fundamental areas like string theory, nuclear physics, and astrophysics, as...
This $398,029 National Science Foundation project grant will fund the establishment of a new Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at the University of Kansas from March 2022 through February 2025. The REU site will expose ten undergraduate participants each summer to research in astronomy, astroparticle physics, high energy theory, and condensed matter theory and experiment. Participants will gain hands-on research experience through short-term mentored projects and have the...
This Project Grant award of $717,618 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049) supports an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) and Research Experiences for Teachers (RET) site focused on interdisciplinary astrophysics research at Northwestern University. The award will fund 10 undergraduate students per year and 4 high school teachers per year to participate in authentic astrophysics research projects spanning theory,...