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: 2349329
• 负责人: David Benson
• 金额: $ 46.5万
• 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: 2024
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2024-04-01 至 2027-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2349329&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Summer; Experience; Undergraduates

This Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site award to the University of Kansas (KU), located in Lawrence, KS, supports the training of 10 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2024-2026. In this program, funded by the Division of Chemistry, the students will participate in interdisciplinary research that focuses on bioanalytics, green chemistry and renewable energy. The intellectual hallmark of the program is the synergistic integration of research, professional development, and educational activities. Professional development activities include training in the responsible conduct of research and panel discussions that expose the participants to career paths available to Ph.D. chemists in industry, government, and/or academia. The program will serve the broader chemical sciences community by mentoring and training students from primarily undergraduate institutions across the nation having otherwise limited opportunities for research experience, and by encouraging participation of women and members of traditionally underrepresented groups in the sciences, including students with disabilities.Participants will select projects from six interdisciplinary research areas ranging from chemical biology, microfluidics and mass spectrometry to materials chemistry, energy and nanoscience to lasers, spectroscopy and molecular dynamics. Selected projects available to participants will include probing protein-antibody interactions, design of metal-binding molecules for use in nuclear waste remediation, study of metalloenzyme function using synthetic model compounds, exploring the role of catalyst structure in production of renewable fuels, and uncovering driving forces for chemical dynamics via computational methods. Students 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.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.

该研究经验在堪萨斯州劳伦斯市授予堪萨斯大学（KU）的本科生（REU）现场奖，在2024 - 2026年夏季，支持10个学生的10周学生培训。 在该计划中，由化学部资助，学生将参加跨学科研究，重点是生物分析，绿色化学和可再生能源。 该计划的智力标志是研究，专业发展和教育活动的协同融合。 专业发展活动包括在负责任的研究和小组讨论中进行培训，以使参与者接触到博士学位的职业道路。工业，政府和/或学术界的化学家。 该计划将通过指导和培训来自全国各地的本科机构的学生的研究和培训，否则为研究经验的机会有限，并鼓励妇女的参与以及传统上代表性不足的科学群体的参与，包括残疾人的学生，包括六个跨学科研究领域的材料，以及微交易的材料范围，包括化学研究领域，并培训全国各地的本科机构。激光，光谱和分子动力学的纳米科学。 参与者可用的选定项目将包括探测蛋白质抗体的相互作用，用于用于核废料修复的金属结合分子的设计，使用合成模型化合物研究金属酶功能的研究，探索催化剂在可再生燃料的生产中的作用，以及通过计算方法探索化学动力学的驱动力。 学生将受益于大型KU化学界提供的高度协作环境，与教职员工和研究生（或博士后）导师，最先进的设施以及以书面和口头形式交流和分散成就的机会。这是NSF的法定任务，反映了NSF的法定任务，并通过评估了企业的支持和公众的范围。