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.

位于堪萨斯州劳伦斯的堪萨斯大学 (KU) 获得本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站奖，支持 2024 年至 2026 年夏季对 10 名学生进行为期 10 周的培训。 在这个由化学系资助的项目中，学生将参与侧重于生物分析、绿色化学和可再生能源的跨学科研究。 该项目的智力标志是研究、专业发展和教育活动的协同整合。 专业发展活动包括负责任的研究行为培训和小组讨论，让参与者了解博士可以选择的职业道路。工业界、政府和/或学术界的化学家。 该计划将为更广泛的化学科学界提供服务，指导和培训来自全国各地主要本科院校的学生，否则他们获得研究经验的机会有限，并鼓励女性和传统上在科学领域代表性不足的群体成员（包括残疾学生）的参与。参与者将从六个跨学科研究领域选择项目，范围包括化学生物学、微流体和质谱、材料化学、能源和纳米科学、激光、光谱学和分子动力学。 可供参与者选择的项目将包括探测蛋白质-抗体相互作用、设计用于核废料修复的金属结合分子、使用合成模型化合物研究金属酶功能、探索催化剂结构在可再生燃料生产中的作用以及揭示驱动因素通过计算方法计算化学动力学的力。 学生将受益于大型 KU 化学社区提供的高度协作的环境、与教师和研究生（或博士后）导师的密切互动、最先进的设施以及以书面和口头方式交流和传播其成就的机会该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。