CAREER: Dendritic Approach to Career-Development: Dendrimers, Multidisciplinary Courses, and Girl Scouts

这个由分析和表面化学项目支持的教师早期职业发展（Career）项目，侧重于涉及新型大分子介质树状大分子的化学的荧光光谱研究。树状大分子是高度分支的三维聚合物，其结构包括腔体微体积，正在研究用于化学分离和药物输送等领域。塔克教授和她的学生将使用各种光学探针来研究系统变化的树状大分子家族的结构-功能关系，这些树状大分子家族被提议用于分离应用。这个职业项目包括开发一门名为“在科学领域取得成功的面试和工作技能”的课程。塔克教授还将在周末为女童子军举办名为“化学的魔力”的讲习班。人们对开发新型化合物非常感兴趣，这种化合物可以有效地包裹其他离子或分子，将它们运送到目标系统中或运出。其中一类化合物就是树状大分子。树状大分子是一种三维聚合物，在化学分离和药物输送方面的应用正受到广泛的评价。塔克教授和她的学生将使用光谱学来研究树状大分子的化学结构和功能关系。研究生和本科生将通过一门致力于科学工作场所的面试和工作技能的课程获得见解。女童子军将接触“化学的魔力”，以弥合科学领域的性别差距。

This Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) project, supported in the Analytical and Surface Chemistry Program, focuses on the spectrofluorometric study of chemistry involving novel macromolecular media, dendrimers. Dendrimers are highly-branched, three-dimensional polymers whose structures include cavity microvolumes which are being investigated for use in areas such as chemical separations and drug delivery. Professor Tucker and her students will use a variety of optical probes to study structure-function relationships in a systematically varying family of dendrimers proposed for use in separations applications. This CAREER project includes the development of a course entitled `Interviewing and Job Skills for Success in the Sciences`. Professor Tucker will also conduct weekend workshops for Girl Scouts entitled `The Magic of Chemistry`. There is a great deal of interest in the development of novel chemical compounds which effectively act to encapsulate other ions or molecules to transport them into and out of target systems. One such group of compounds is the dendrimers. Dendrimers are three-dimensional polymers which are being evaluated intensely for use in chemical separations and in drug delivery applications. Professor Tucker and her students will study the chemistry of dendrimers using optical spectroscopy to probe structure-function relationships. Graduate and undergraduate students will gain insights through a course devoted to interviewing and job skills in the scientific workplace. Girl Scouts will be exposed to the `The Magic of Chemistry` in an effort to bridge the science gender gap.