The PPPL Off Site University Research (OSUR) Program provides ‘scientific outreach’ to a broad range of US colleges and universities in various areas of plasma and fusion science. These areas include plasma theory and simulation, plasma experiments, plasma diagnostics, undergraduate plasma education, engineering support, and safety. This support is provided to approximately 25 university and college groups and our goal is to impact as many projects as possible within the academic community. Besides seeking new upstart university plasma physics projects to provide engineering and technical support, there has been an emphasis upon including small colleges that are interested in plasma physics projects to supplement their undergraduate science education programs and for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSI) with an interest in plasma physics. Over the years we have been able to support every reasonable request from both small colleges and large university programs.
The photograph is of Professor Michael Maul at Columbia University with his students in front of the HBT-EP experiment.
