REU Site: Practices and Perspectives

这个联合化学部门、工程教育和中心部门以及多学科活动办公室的奖项支持弗吉尼亚联邦大学本科生研究经验（REU）站点的延续。苏珊娜·鲁德（Suzanne Ruder）是该网站的项目总监，萨利·亨尼库特（Sally Hunnicutt）是联合项目总监。来自化学和化学工程系的16名教师将担任REU的学生导师。在奖励期间（2002-2004年），每年夏天将支持11名学生参加为期10周的项目，支持5名教师参加为期7周的项目。这些学生大多来自地方院校，那里通常没有研究机会。将采用与过去类似的招聘方法。他们成功地将少数族裔招募到REU项目中，比例达到了40%。被招募的教师大多来自里士满公立学校系统。学生和教师有广泛的研究项目可供选择，这些研究项目分为综合、分析和建模三个领域。在整个项目中，有研究会议、讲习班和研讨会。在研究进行到一半的时候，学生和老师口头汇报他们的研究进展。在项目结束时，参与者在最后的研讨会上展示他们的研究成果。为了对项目进行评估，所有参与者和研究导师都要填写评估表格，并在学生离开后对他们进行跟踪。

This joint Chemistry Division, Division of Engineering Education and Centers, and Office of Multidisciplinary Activities award supports the continuation of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Virginia Commonwealth University. Suzanne Ruder is the site's Program Director and Sally Hunnicutt is the Co-Program Director. Sixteen faculty members from the Departments of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering will serve as REU student mentors. Over the award period (2002-2004), eleven students will be supported each summer in a ten-week program and five teachers in a seven-week program. The students are drawn mostly from regional colleges, where research opportunities are generally not available. Recruitment approaches similar to those in the past, will be used. These have been successful with recruiting minorities into their REU program at the level of 40%. The teachers that are recruited are mostly from the Richmond Public School system. Students and teachers have a wide selection of research projects from which to select, that are divided into the three areas of synthesis, analysis, and modeling. Throughout the program there are research meetings, workshops, and seminars. At the halfway point the students and teachers give an oral presentation on the progress of their research. At the close of the program participants present their research results at a final symposium. For assessment of the program all participants and research mentors complete evaluation forms and students are tracked after their departure.