REU Site: A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education, and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment

REU 网站：本科生在跨学科环境中整合研究、教育和职业发展的暑期体验

• 批准号: 1263259
• 负责人: David Benson
• 金额: $ 27.52万
• 依托单位: University of Kansas Center for Research Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-05-01 至 2017-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263259&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Experience; Undergraduates; REU; Site; Summer; Experience; Undergraduates

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site led by Professors David R. Benson and Joseph A. Heppert at the University of Kansas (KU). The research projects supported at this Site entitled "A Summer Experience for Undergraduates Integrating Research, Education, and Career Development in an Interdisciplinary Environment", is dedicated to providing for the students a stimulating interdisciplinary environment with a multifaceted career enhancement program that encourages and prepares the participants for graduate studies and careers in the chemical sciences. Key components of the program include ethics and safety training, panel discussions highlighting the variety of career options available to chemists (including entrepreneurship), a short course on green chemistry, and site visits to companies and institutions in the greater Kansas City Area that are engaged in interdisciplinary science. The participants will benefit from the highly collaborative environment provided by the large KU chemical community, close interactions with faculty and graduate student (or postdoctoral) mentors, state-of-the-art facilities, and opportunities to communicate and disseminate their accomplishments in written and oral forms. Additionally, the NSF funding that is requested to support 10 participants per year will be given to students who have limited opportunities for research at their home institutions. This includes students at primarily undergraduate institutions, as well as students at other schools who cannot partake of available research opportunities for personal economic reasons. Additional participants will be supported by individual faculty research grants. The goals are for at least 50% of the NSF-funded participants to be women, and for 20-30% to come from traditionally underrepresented groups in the sciences. This REU Site program has provided summer research experiences for more than 450 undergraduates from across the country over the past 25 years, thereby effectively serving as a regional hub for undergraduate research.

国家科学基金会化学系（CHE）的奖项支持堪萨斯大学（KU）教授David R. Benson和Joseph A. Heppert领导的本科生（REU）的研究经验。该网站上支持的研究项目名为“在跨学科环境中整合研究，教育和职业发展的夏季经验”，致力于为学生提供刺激性的跨学科环境，并鼓励参与者在化学研究中为参与者提供多方面的职业增强计划。该计划的关键组成部分包括道德和安全培训，小组讨论，突出了化学家可用的各种职业选择（包括企业家精神），一门简短的绿色化学课程以及对跨学科科学的大堪萨斯城地区的公司和机构进行现场访问。参与者将受益于大型KU化学界提供的高度协作环境，与教师和研究生（或博士后）导师，最先进的设施以及以书面和口头形式进行交流和传播成就的机会。此外，要求每年支持10名参与者的NSF资金将向其家庭机构进行研究机会有限的学生提供。这包括主要是本科机构的学生，以及其他出于个人经济原因无法参加可用研究机会的学校的学生。其他参与者将得到个人教师研究补助金的支持。目标是至少有50％的NSF资助的参与者成为女性，而20-30％来自科学中传统代表性不足的群体。在过去25年中，该REU网站计划为来自全国的450多名本科生提供了夏季研究经验，从而有效地是本科研究的区域枢纽。