1994 — 2000 |
Beise, Elizabeth |
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Nsf Young Investigator @ University of Maryland College Park
9457906 Beise A program in experimental nuclear physics will be initiated. Electron scattering in the range of 100 MeV to several GeV will be used to study nuclear structure and the properties of few- nuclear systems. ***
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1996 — 2009 |
Chant, Nicholas [⬀] Chang, C. C. Kelly, James Beise, Elizabeth |
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Experimental Nuclear Physics Research Program @ University of Maryland College Park
9513924 Chant Accelerator based research in intermediate energy nuclear physics of a University of Maryland group will be supported primarily at CEBAF utilizing electromagnetic probes. There will be a major contribution to the commissioning of CEBAF as well as initiation of new experiments with CEBAF. The research will include a measurement of the polarization of the recoiling deuteron from e- d scattering and studies of parity violation in the scattering of polarized electrons from helium nuclei. Specialized detectors will be developed for use in these and other experiments at CEBAF. Continuing researah using hadron probes such as pion- induced reaction studies on a polarized Li target at IUCF and (p,pN) experiments at TRIUMF will be carried out by the group ***
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2008 — 2013 |
Breuer, Herbert Beise, Elizabeth Nico, Jeff |
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Dusel R&D: Fast Neutron Spectroscopy in the Deep Underground Environment @ University of Maryland College Park
The goal of this project is to develop a spectrometer to detect fast neutrons which will allow the characterization of the background environment for sensitive underground experiments. These experiments, such as searches for WIMP dark matter, neutrinoless double beta decay, and detection of solar neutrinos, are some of the highest priority directions in nuclear and particle physics, and understanding the backgrounds in which they must operate is essential to their success. The spectrometer proposed here will use a technique called capture-gated spectroscopy, with a lithium-loaded liquid scintillator, and will be able to measure both the fluence and energy of neutrons up to 50 MeV. This technique also has important applications in homeland security and neutron dosimetry.
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2008 — 2013 |
Breuer, Herbert Beise, Elizabeth |
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Experimental Nuclear Physics Research @ University of Maryland College Park
Funds from this grant will be used to support our group's efforts in the projects in nucleon structure and in tests of fundamental symmetries. In the first year, we will be completing data analysis from the G0 experiment in which parity-violating electron scattering is used to determine the contributions of strange quarks to the proton's charge and magnetism. Later in the grant period we will participate in an experiment that uses muon pair production to probe the distribution of antiquarks in the proton (FNAL experiment E906). This latter measurement addresses a number of unanswered questions about the nonperturbative QCD structure of the proton, such as the degree of charge symmetry in proton's internal structure and the role of antiquarks in ground state properties of free and bound nucleons. Our group is also participating in experiments that use precision measurements of neutron beta decay to test fundamental symmetries. The broader impact of this group's research is primarily through providing outstanding research opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students. Students are exposed to nuclear physics concepts, get hands-on experience developing hardware, make significant contributions to the experiments, and have the opportunity to visit and participate in programs at major national laboratories.
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2010 — 2016 |
Beise, Elizabeth Wylie, Ann Pines, Darryll (co-PI) [⬀] Farvardin, Nariman (co-PI) [⬀] Cohen, Avis (co-PI) [⬀] Rankin, Mary Ann [⬀] O'meara, Kerry Ann |
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University of Maryland: Towards An Institution For Inclusive Excellence (Um=Ti^2e) @ University of Maryland College Park
The UMCP ADVANCE IT project has four primary goals that are aimed at creating an academic environment that supports professional growth and values the contributions of women STEM faculty. These goals include: enhancing faculty development opportunities that provide opportunities for national visibility and recognition; creating a sense of agency for women STEM faculty; promoting faculty relationships and networks; and encouragement of achievement of professional goals and contributions of women STEM faculty. To this end, the UMCP ADVANCE project proposes several activities that are expected to transform the academic environment at the institution. The project also proposes an emphasis on the underrepresentation of women of color at the institution.
Intellectual Merit. The UMCP ADVANCE IT project is unique in that it uses a basis of professional growth for women faculty to promote institutional change, particularly in the STEM disciplines. Specifically, this project not only advances STEM women faculty, but also works toward changing cultures, addresses work life balance and utilizes evaluation and social science to transform the institution.
Broader Impact. The UMCP ADVANCE IT project addresses the professional growth concerns of STEM women faculty with particular attention to women of color. To that end, this project has the potential to serve as a model for other institutions that endeavor to address similar challenges. Dissemination of research findings and project activity accomplishments are expected to occur through the traditional means of peer reviewed journal articles, a project website and national presentations and outreach efforts.
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2011 — 2016 |
Beise, Elizabeth |
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Research in Experimental Nuclear Physics @ University of Maryland College Park
Funds from this grant will be used to support projects in nucleon structure and in tests of fundamental symmetries. Two specific projects will be supported. One is the development of a sensitive, segmented detector for fast neutrons, using the method of capture-gated spectroscopy where incident neutrons are slowed through scattering in a plastic scintillator and then captured in He-3 proportional counters. The project will provide information about the neutron flux and energy distributions for sensitive underground experiments and further the technology for neutron detector for Homeland Security applications, and will result in a Ph.D. thesis for a Maryland graduate student. The second project is a measure of antiquark distributions in nucleons and nuclei at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (FNAL) using the "Drell-Yan" process of muon pair production from proton-proton and proton-deuteron collisions. This grant supports a postdoctoral researcher who is leading efforts in target systems, data acquisition and data analysis.
The broader impact of this group's research is through outstanding research opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students. In the neutron project, the additional broader impact is further development of neutron detection technology for fundamental physics experiments and for Homeland Security. Students are exposed to nuclear physics concepts and provided with hands-on experience developing hardware. They can make significant contributions to the experiments, and have the opportunity to visit and participate in programs at major national laboratories, in this case FNAL and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
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2015 — 2020 |
Beise, Elizabeth O'meara, Kerry Ann |
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Faculty Workload and Rewards Project @ University of Maryland College Park
The Faculty Workload and Rewards Project aims to study and transform workplace structures and cultures that result in inequality between science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) men and women faculty in campus service, teaching, and mentoring workloads. The project will test whether departments that undergo a three-year intervention to address workload inequality show improvements in STEM women faculty members' sense of procedural and distributive justice, retention, satisfaction, organizational commitment, and satisfaction with time spent on teaching and service versus research. The project will also measure changes in organizational practices that result from the interventions such as dashboards and new workload and reward system policies. The outcomes of this project will have broad potential impact for other public state institutions, which are critical to improving the number of women and underrepresented racial and ethnic minority students in STEM fields. The project will create a repository of dashboard templates that can be used by other departments, colleges, and institutions to assess micro-equities in workload and establish department-based organizational practices that make campus service, teaching, and mentoring workloads fairer and more transparent. The study has the potential to make long-term shifts possible through structural change in workload assignments and accountability, and cultural changes in transparency and bias regarding those assignments.
The study includes a randomized trial of forty-two STEM and Social Science academic departments from Maryland, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. Twenty-one departments will act as controls and twenty-one departments will be experimental departments that will engage in four workload interventions over three years. These interventions include: (1) the creation of workload dashboards to enhance transparency; (2) workload and reward system adjustments to remedy inequitable workloads by gender, race, and career stage; (3) individual career training and peer support for management of workload; and (4) department-wide faculty training on how unconscious bias and department organizational practices can affect workloads and harm careers. The design allows systematic diagnosis and measurement of workload and gender and race inequality in new ways in a range of diverse departments and institutions. By engaging a stratified random assignment design and collecting both climate and workload data from each control and experimental department, the project will measure both changes in faculty perceptions of workload fairness (procedural justice) and actual workload, policies and rewards (distributive justice). This project takes an important issue and studies it systematically, with a large sample, using multiple methods and clear focus. This approach is a rigorous design for the study of faculty workload and rewards and offers an approach that can be replicated in future studies.
The NSF ADVANCE Partnerships for Learning and Adaptation Networks (PLAN) program track supports projects that promote the adaptation and implementation of previously effective ADVANCE programs in new contexts and the testing of innovative strategies to promote the participation, success, and advancement of women in STEM academic careers. PLAN projects also contribute to the knowledge base on gender equity in STEM academic careers.
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