Undergraduate Exploration of Chemistry

该奖项来自化学部门，支持本科生研究中心（URC）计划拨款。PI是Jani C. Ingram。共同调查对象是北亚利桑那大学的曼塞尔·a·纳尔逊、亚利桑那大学的珍妮·e·彭伯顿和亚瓦派学院的保罗·e·斯摩列尼亚克。该奖项将制定一个全面的战略，在亚利桑那州建立一个本科生研究中心，以提高早期大学生的化学相关教育机会。它将涉及一个以研究为中心的机构（亚利桑那大学）、一个以本科为主的机构（北亚利桑那大学）、社区学院（亚瓦派学院和科科尼诺社区学院）和一个教育推广项目（环境教育推广项目/部落环境专业人员研究所）之间的合作。将有一项倡议，招收高中生选择科学事业。其他的目标是改善大一化学课程的发现基础学习方面，发展研究项目，包括在个别机构的活动以及机构之间的互动，为大一学生提供关于拥有化学学位但选择不同职业道路的化学家生活的试点信息会议，并探索将其他社区学院纳入该中心。学生的研究机会将集中在环境科学方面，为学生提供多学科的研究机会。

The award from the Chemistry Division supports an Undergraduate Research Centers (URC) planning grant. The PI is Jani C. Ingram. The co-PIs are Mansel A. Nelson of Northern Arizona University, Jeanne E. Pemberton of the University of Arizona and Paul E. Smolenyak of Yavapai College. This award will develop a comprehensive strategy for creating an undergraduate research center in Arizona to enhance chemistry-related educational opportunities for early college students. It will involve a partnership among a research-centered institution (University of Arizona), a predominantly undergraduate institution (Northern Arizona University), community colleges (Yavapai College and Coconino Community College), and an educational outreach program (Environmental Education Outreach Program/Institute of Tribal Environmental Professional). There will be an initiative to recruit high school students to choose scientific careers. Other objectives are to improve discovery-base learning aspects in the freshman chemistry curriculum, develop research projects that involve activities at the individual institutions as well as interactions between institutions, pilot informational sessions for freshman students about lives of chemists that have degrees in chemistry but have taken varying career paths, and explore adding other community colleges to the center. The research opportunities for the students will be concentrated on environmental science providing the students with a multidisciplinary exposure to research.