Undergraduate Internships in Nuclear Physics at Florida International University*

FIU is one of the 5 largest universities in the US and serves a diverse student population with nearly 65% identifying as Hispanic and 12% as Black or African American.  The FIU nuclear physics group's research focuses on intermediate energy nuclear physics, specifically the programs at Jefferson Lab and the future electron-ion collider.  A recent DOE funding opportunity (Research Traineeships To Broaden And Diversify Nuclear Physics) has resulted in the funding of four annual undergraduate internships in the FIU department.  Participants in the program recieve training in skills ranging from hardware assembly to coding for data analysis and theoretical physics studies and will have the opportunity to attend topical meetings to present their work.  We discuss the projects the students are working on and touch on the evaluation and outreach components of the program.  Time permitting, we highlight other Diversity Equity & Inclusion initiatives at our department.

This work is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, Office of Nuclear Physics under contract DE-SC0022007