\section{Human resource development}

Based at one of the nation's largest and most diverse major public research universities,
instruction and mentoring form a central feature of this project.
As has been true for over a third-of-a-century, the training of graduate and undergraduate students 
in science and technology through work with the ASU Meson Physics Group 
during the project will enhance the nation's scientific workforce. 
Mentoring and training
of students is an essential feature of this proposal:
the activities described above cannot be carried out without
their training, development, and participation.

Faculty members of the ASU Meson Physics Group have continuously mentored 
graduate and undergraduate students since Ritchie joined the faculty of ASU
in 1984.
While the PI has not yet graduated any Ph.D. students,
he has been fully involved in mentoring graduates students for 
nearly 20 years. Focusing solely on the time since the PI became a member of the
ASU Meson Physics Group as a graduate student in 1997, five graduate students 
working with the group
have obtained their Ph.D degrees
with Co-Investigator Ritchie as their advisor, and 60\% of those graduate students
remain in physics. The most recent graduate, Ross Tucker,
chose to pursue his love of teaching and is
currently a Lecturer in Physics at ASU.
David Lawrence is a staff scientist at Jefferson
Lab working on GlueX physics, and Michael Dugger
is a tenure-track Associate Professor at ASU
and the PI of this grant application.Of the remaining Ph.D. students,
Brian T. Morrison went straight into industry as a software developer, 
while Patrick Collins completed a nuclear physics 
postdoctorial position with The Catholic 
University of America before leaving the field. 

Among the undergraduate students who have worked with the group,
most have gone on to graduate school and careers in physics. 
One such example is Professor Todd Averett,
currently a faculty member in Physics at William and Mary working in JLab
Hall A, who worked with the group as an undergraduate analyzing
LAMPF data. A number of undergraduates students have written honors
theses on work with the group. For example, the most recent undergraduate student
to work with the group, Robert J. Lee, was mentored by the PI, and graduated 
in Spring 2018 and has begun graduate studies in physics at the University of 
California at San Diego.
Robert was an exceptional student that
the PI worked closely with for three years. His honors 
thesis was on the analysis of FROST (Frozen Spin target)
data from JLab CLAS data. He analyzed the 
spin observables associated linearly polarized photons
incident on transversely polarized protons for the
reaction $\gamma p \rightarrow \pi^+ n$. Robert's 
thesis is being turned into a CLAS analysis note
and we expect this to lead to a publication by the 
beginning of the proposed grant period. 
Currently, The PI has a sophomore undergraduate student,
Eric Bryan that he is mentoring in the analysis of 
CLAS12 data, while the Co-Investigator is advising a Ph.D student,
Sebastian Cole, that is returning from a 1-year stint at
JLab working on GlueX data, maintenance of the TPOL and 
analysis of TPOL data.

Students fully participate in weekly group meetings, making
presentations on their own work while asking questions about the
work of others. This provides them frequent opportunities to hone their
scientific presentation skills. 
As expected, the scientific results of the investigations outlined in Section~\ref{sec:overview}
will be broadly disseminated through
national and international conference presentations, workshops, reports,
and refereed publications, and will be archived in public databases.
Presenters will include these junior scientists in the group - both undergraduate and graduate students - to
increase their adeptness in scientific communication, as well as to build their own
scientific collaborator networks.
