HADRONS: Helping Amplify Diversity and Research Opportunities in Nuclear Science.

This new traineeship program aims to broaden and diversify the Nuclear Physics workforce by providing undergraduate physics students at a Minority Serving Institution with financial support, research experience, direct mentoring from faculty, career development opportunities and the opportunity to participate in outreach activities. At the same time, the scientific goals of the project aim to advance current research in uncertainty quantification of nuclear interactions, sensitivity analysis in shell model calculations, and proton-induced fission yields.

By providing research and career development opportunities, financial support, and direct mentoring to undergraduate students from a Minority Serving Institution we aim to increase the number of students from underrepresented groups that continue into graduate school and a potential career in nuclear physics. In particular, the proposed program supports three undergraduate students and has paired each of them with one of the investigators to work on a specific research project. 

The mentoring and career development aspects of the program will greatly benefit the nuclear physics community by providing the workforce with new sources of highly trained and talented individuals.