This $129,943 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Astronomical Sciences will support an eight-week Research Experience for Undergraduates site at the University of California, Riverside focused on educating a new generation of astronomers. Eight student interns will conduct observational, theoretical, computational, and data-driven research addressing fundamental questions in modern astronomy. Interns will receive instruction in Python programming, data...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $460,000 to the University of Kansas Center for Research Inc. to fund a 10-week Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site program. The objective is to expose 10 undergraduate participants each summer to research in astronomy, astroparticle physics, high energy theory, and condensed matter theory and experiment. The program will include a computational...
This Project Grant award of $717,618 from the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) supports an REU/RET site program at Northwestern University. The program will provide research experiences for 10 undergraduate students per year and 4 high school teachers per year, focused on interdisciplinary astrophysics research methods including theory, computation, instrumentation, and experiments. Students will have access to Northwestern's...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $417,188 Project Grant under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences (MPS) program to the University of Florida (UF) Division of Sponsored Research. This 3-year award, commencing on May 1, 2024, supports a renewed Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site focused on computationally intensive research in astronomy and astrophysics. The program provides hands-on research opportunities for undergraduate students, leveraging UF's advanced...
This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049) provides $465,071 to the SETI Institute to support an REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) site focused on astronomy, astrobiology, and planetary science. Over a 2.5-year period from March 2025 to August 2027, undergraduate students will conduct research with SETI Institute scientists on topics including exoplanets, asteroids, comets, the solar system, and...
This $120,000 Project Grant award, provided by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the CFDA program 47.049 Mathematical and Physical Sciences, supports fundamental research on gravitational astrophysics and computational methods to advance scientific understanding of neutron stars, black holes, gravitational waves, and the large-scale structure of the universe. The award will fund a series of research projects at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) focused on developing new...
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 Project Grant award, titled "REU SITE: ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON", is funded by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Mathematical and Physical Sciences Program (CFDA 47.049). The $548,202 award will provide a 10-week hands-on research training and experience to eight undergraduate students each summer over a 3-year period from May 2025 to April 2028. The program, which has been active for over two decades, aims to provide foundational...
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 federal Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation's Mathematical and Physical Sciences (CFDA 47.049) program provides $273,270 to the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc. (AURA) to support a 10-week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) program in optical-infrared astronomy at NOIRLAB facilities in Chile. The project will engage six undergraduate students per year to conduct meaningful research projects under the supervision of NOIRLAB's...