Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS April Meeting 2022
Volume 67, Number 6
Saturday–Tuesday, April 9–12, 2022; New York
Session B13: Mini-Symposium: Broadening Participation in Nuclear Science IDiversity Education Mini-Symposium Recordings Available Undergrad Friendly
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Sponsoring Units: DNP Chair: Kelsie Krafton, Louisiana State University Room: Shubert |
Saturday, April 9, 2022 10:45AM - 11:21AM |
B13.00001: Fostering Nuclear Science at Minority Serving Institutions Invited Speaker: Sharon Stephenson
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Saturday, April 9, 2022 11:21AM - 11:33AM |
B13.00002: Texas Research Expanding Nuclear Diversity Lauren McIntosh, Jorge A Lopez, Justin Mabiala, Larry W May, Jorge A Munoz, Toni D Sauncy, Sherry J Yennello A new traineeship sponsored by the DOE Office of Science is taking shape in Texas to expand the diversity of researchers in nuclear science in the state of Texas. Undergraduate students from the Texas A&M University (TAMU) Higher Education Center at McAllen, Prairie View A&M University, Texas Lutheran University, and University of Texas El Paso (all Minority-Serving Institutions) will have on-site advising by local PIs with experience in nuclear science. They will also be remotely advised by TAMU PIs, who they will join in person during the summer of 2022. The goal is to support the students for two years of research, as well as expose them to a variety of topics in nuclear science. Recent developments in the traineeship process—successes and failures—will be discussed. |
Saturday, April 9, 2022 11:33AM - 11:45AM |
B13.00003: Pathways to Improved Representation in Advanced Nuclear Science Emilie Martin Hein, Kolo Wamba, Marco Wehrfritz, Brendan Murtagh, Shannon Hoang, Madeleine McSwain, Jiries Kaileh We present the first-year results of a new traineeship program that our team has implemented at Skyline College, a minority-serving institution (MSI). The principal objective of this innovative program is to help diversify the field of nuclear physics by fostering community college student involvement in the ongoing R&D for nEXO. A secondary goal is to help infuse a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion into all aspects of nuclear science research by actively engaging our student trainees with the nEXO DEI committee. Skyline College is the first and only community college to join the nEXO collaboration. As our program concludes its inaugural year, we have seen our student trainees make helpful contributions to the following aspects of nEXO R&D: liquid xenon chemical purity monitoring, Rn mitigation, data acquisition, and crafting a survey of the diversity, equity, and inclusion climate within nEXO. In addition, each of our students have given poster presentations at the 2021 SACNAS Diversity in STEM Conference, at which one of our student presentations was awarded a 2021 SACNAS Student Presentation Award for "exemplary communication and command of the research topic". Another aspect of our work is to help disseminate nEXO's research findings to the public, and to this end, our student trainees have become active members of the community, contributing to student clubs, speaking at public events, and preparing a workshop for public outreach. |
Saturday, April 9, 2022 11:45AM - 11:57AM |
B13.00004: Undergraduate Internships in Nuclear Physics at Florida International University Wim Cosyn, Alejandra Granados, Alan S Sosa, Manuel Ramirez Garcia, Clare E Bennett, Brian Raue, Joerg Reinhold, Lei Guo, Pete C Markowitz 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. |
Saturday, April 9, 2022 11:57AM - 12:09PM |
B13.00005: An Experimental Nuclear Physics Program at Chicago State University (CSU) Edmundo J Garcia, Austin V Harton The experimental nuclear physics research program at CSU is centered on studying Heavy Ion Collisions at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) with the ALICE experiment. Our university’s location on Chicago’s South-Side has allowed us to work with a diverse group of undergraduate students, many of whom are first-generation college students and are from groups traditionally underrepresented in experimental nuclear physics. The program has resulted in several inner-city undergraduates ultimately working in STEM fields or in STEM education, with many attending graduate schools in physics, math, or engineering. In this talk, we describe our experiences, challenges, and accomplishments working with underrepresented students in experimental nuclear physics. We will also describe how his program has impacted the Physics Department at CSU and the obstacles we have faced due to the pandemic during the last couple of years. |
Saturday, April 9, 2022 12:09PM - 12:21PM |
B13.00006: Nuclear Science Traineeships at The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) Jorge A Munoz, Jorge A Lopez The University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) is a Hispanic Serving Institution with a student population of about 25,000 students, of which 83 percent are Hispanic and 49 percent are the first in their families to attend college. The Department of Physics has a rich tradition of training students in nuclear physics locally and mentoring them to take advantage of undergraduate summer research programs at research-intensive institutions. This model has been successful and now two DOE Office of Science traineeship programs, Texas Research Expanding Nuclear Diversity (TREND) and Nuclear Science in Texas to Enhance and Advance Minorities (NuSTEAM), are allowing to formalize and strengthen these pipelines. In this talk we will present results and best-known methods from the pre-traineeship era and will discuss the advantages that formalization brings. |
Saturday, April 9, 2022 12:21PM - 12:33PM |
B13.00007: Improving and Sustaining Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in the Physics Ph.D. Program at Michigan State University Remco G Zegers Broadening the participation of graduate students from historically underrepresented group in physics is important for enhancing scientific progress and its impact on societial topics. The National Supeconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, the Facility for Rare isotope Beams, and the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University work together closely to increase the participation of students from underrepresented groups. In the past years, considerable progress has been made in terms of recruiting a more diverse student population, for example through close collaborations with institutions that serve students who are underrepresented in physics, the implementation of a holistic rubric for graduate school applicants, and a variety of outreach and research activities for which students who otherwise would be unlikely to pursue a Ph.D. in physics are recruited. More recently, the Graduate Program has been reviewed with the goal to identify areas in which improvements can be made to better support and sustain a diverse graduate student population. Based on that review and a survey, changes to the program have been made and more are being considered. The presentation will focus on progress made in the past years in terms of recruiting and supporting a diverse group of students, as well as the challenges faced in these efforts. |
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