Undergraduate Research Center for Chemistry and Closely Allied Fields

该奖项来自化学系，用于资助本科生研究中心(URC)的规划拨款。私家侦探是格雷戈里·赫尔佐格。联合PI是来自罗格斯大学的John Krenos和Joseph Potenza，来自Raritan Valley社区学院的Paul Schueler，以及来自米德尔塞克斯县社区学院的Diane C.Trainor。计划补助金将用于1)通过增加一个以研究为导向的小组项目来改进一年级的大型实验室课程；2)招收学生参加第二学期的研究项目；3)将这些学生与一个活跃的研究小组相匹配；4)创建一个新的第二学期3学分的课程，其中包括研究和实验室部分。项目负责人将帮助学生寻找进一步的研究机会，监督他们的最终报告，评估项目要素的有效性和扩大规模，并启动对结果的广泛讨论。学生参与者将来自罗格斯大学的两所社区学院和本科生学院。教师研究导师将从罗格斯大学和新泽西医学与牙科大学的几个学术单位中挑选出来。来自新泽西州制药公司的工业科学家将帮助教授这门新课程。

The award from the Chemistry Division supports an Undergraduate Research Centers (URC) planning grant. The PI is Gregory Herzog. The co-PIs are John Krenos and Joseph Potenza from Rutgers, Paul Schueler from Raritan Valley Community College and Diane C. Trainor of Middlesex County Community College. The planning grant will work towards 1) improvement of a large first-year laboratory course by adding a research-oriented project carried out in small groups; 2) recruit students for a second semester research project; 3) match these students with an active research group; 4) create a new second semester 3-credit course with research and laboratory components. The project directors will assist students to find further research opportunities, supervise their final reports, evaluate the program elements for effectiveness and scale up, and initiate wide ranging discussions of the results. Student participants will be drawn from the two community colleges and the undergraduate colleges at Rutgers. Faculty research mentors will be drawn from several academic units at Rutgers and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. Industrial scientists from pharmaceutical companies in New Jersey will help to teach the new course.