REU Site: Interactive Biomaterials

REU 网站：互动生物材料

基本信息

批准号：
2049793
负责人：
Shikha Nangia
金额：
$ 35.47万
依托单位：
Syracuse University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2021
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2021-09-01 至 2024-08-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2049793&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
REU Site Interactive Biomaterials

项目摘要

This site is supported by the Department of Defense in partnership with the NSF REU program.NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: The Interactive Biomaterials Research Experiences for Undergraduates site (REU Site) trains cohorts of students from across the country in state-of-the-art biomaterials research to prepare them for future careers in biomaterials science and engineering. This REU Site (1) engages students in independent, leading-edge biomaterials research projects conducted in multidisciplinary and collaborative laboratory environments; (2) provides mentoring opportunities and network-building experiences to excite participants about the societal impacts of careers available to them following graduate education; (3) prepares students to be effective communicators to public and scientific audiences, and (4) creates a welcoming and diverse training environment that promotes the inclusion of all participants. Complementing training in cutting-edge research techniques, students receive one-on-one mentoring from faculty advisors and graduate student mentors and participate in technical writing workshops and team-building activities. A signature element of the REU Site is its career mentoring initiative for doctoral-level industrial and academic career paths, further emphasizing the importance and benefits of graduate education in STEM disciplines. Students also give regular presentations about their research and deliver a formal presentation at a culminating, university-wide research symposium. The REU Site leadership especially encourages the participation of students with limited research opportunities, women, underrepresented minorities, and disabilities to expand their access to these career-enhancing opportunities. With the support of faculty and graduate student mentors and their peers, students develop and enhance their skills in essential areas such as networking, working in research teams, and communicating orally and technically in various formats. Best practices emerging from this REU Site are broadly disseminated via the web and educational publications to enable replication at other future REU sites.TECHNICAL DETAILS: Biomaterials are increasingly designed to be stimulus-responsive, where their properties can change in a controlled way in response to thermal, chemical, or mechanical stimuli in their environment. These interactions between materials and the biological environment, which occur at atomic, molecular, cellular, microscopic, and macroscopic levels, dictate biomaterials’ performance both in vitro and in vivo. The research projects available to students advance knowledge of these fundamental interactions in areas that include: shape memory and stimulus-responsive polymers, nanoparticle drug delivery, the collective behavior of bacterial biofilms, cell-biomaterial interactions, stem-cell research, biocompatible soft robots, 3D printing of microfluidic devices, and computational modeling of biomaterials. These hypothesis-driven, multidisciplinary research projects draw upon the collective expertise of faculty, and in many cases, foster collaborative research across faculty laboratories, academic departments, and institutions. Faculty mentors are highly qualified to mentor undergraduate students in their laboratories; each has a vast array of modern facilities, equipment, and computational resources at their disposal for training these students in cutting-edge research using analytical and computational techniques. Students develop technical skills and expertise to appreciate the complexity of these interactive biomaterials and understand how to harness these materials for advanced technologies, preparing them to pursue advanced study for careers in various sectors and settings.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该网站由国防部与 NSF REU 计划合作支持。非技术说明：本科生互动生物材料研究体验网站（REU 网站）为来自全国各地的学生提供最先进的培训REU 站点 (1) 让学生参与在多学科和协作实验室环境中进行的独立、前沿的生物材料研究项目； (2) 提供指导机会和网络建设经验，让参与者了解研究生教育后可从事的职业对社会的影响；(3) 培养学生成为公众和科学受众的有效沟通者，(4) 营造一种欢迎和科学氛围。多元化的培训环境促进了所有参与者的参与，这是对尖端研究技术培训的补充，学生可以接受教师顾问和研究生导师的一对一指导，并参加技术写作研讨会和团队建设活动。 REU 站点的是其针对博士级工业和学术职业道路的职业指导计划，进一步强调了 STEM 学科研究生教育的重要性和好处，学生们还定期介绍他们的研究，并在最终的全校研究研讨会上发表正式演讲。 REU 中心领导层特别鼓励研究机会有限的学生、女性、代表性不足的少数族裔和残疾人的参与，以扩大他们获得这些职业发展机会的机会，并在教师和研究生导师及其同伴的支持下，促进学生的发展。并提高他们在网络、研究团队工作以及以各种形式进行口头和技术交流等重要领域的技能。该 REU 网站中出现的最佳实践通过网络和教育出版物广泛传播，以便在未来的其他 REU 网站上进行复制。技术细节：生物材料越来越多地被设计为刺激响应型，它们的特性可以以受控的方式发生变化，以响应环境中的热、化学或机械刺激，这些相互作用发生在材料和生物环境之间。原子、分子、细胞、微观和宏观水平决定了生物材料在体外和体内的性能。学生可以利用的研究项目加深对这些基本相互作用的了解，包括：形状记忆和刺激响应聚合物、纳米颗粒药物。递送、细菌生物膜的集体行为、细胞-生物材料相互作用、干细胞研究、生物相容性软机器人、微流体装置的 3D 打印以及生物材料的计算建模这些假设驱动的多学科研究项目。充分利用教师的高度集体专业知识，在许多情况下，促进教师实验室、学术部门和机构之间的合作研究；教师导师有资格在各自的实验室中指导本科生；和计算资源，用于培训这些学生使用分析和计算技术进行尖端研究。学生培养技术技能和专业知识，以了解这些交互式生物材料的复杂性，并了解如何利用这些材料实现先进技术，为他们的追求做好准备。针对不同行业和环境的职业的高级研究。这授予 NSF 的法定使命，并通过评估反映使用基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准，被认为值得支持。