Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Chemistry at Santa Clara University

这一化学系奖项支持圣克拉拉大学2005-2007年夏季的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。该项目的负责人是迈克尔·卡拉斯科，他由共同的皮拉姆·萨布拉马尼亚姆协助。每年夏天，八名本科生将从事分析、生物、无机、有机化学和物理化学方面的原创性、个人化、为期十周的研究项目。每个学生都将直接接受教师导师的指导，在最近现代化和新建的化学设施中使用最先进的仪器，并学习成为独立研究人员所需的物理和智力技术。专业沟通技能的发展将通过每周一次的研究会议来促进，学生们在会上展示并讨论他们的结果，并让学生在最后的研讨会上做正式的陈述。学生们将通过由教师导师与圣克拉拉大学马库拉应用伦理学中心的伦理学家共同举办的每周一次的研讨会系列来研究科学工作中的伦理问题。这一系列提高了对科学伦理问题的认识(伦理敏感性)，并传授学生进行伦理决策分析所需的知识和技能(伦理判断和承诺)。与当地少数族裔入学率高的社区大学的教职员工建立的招生伙伴关系将成为来自代表性不足群体的学生参与的渠道。圣克拉拉大学将与这些学生建立持续的指导关系，以确保他们立即进入四年制学院和大学，并最终进入化学劳动力大军。

This Chemistry Division award supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Santa Clara University for the summers of 2005-2007. The program director is Michael Carrasco who is assisted by co-PI Ram Subramaniam. Each summer, eight undergraduates will be engaged in original, individual, ten-week research projects in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, and physical chemistry. Each student will receive instruction directly from a faculty mentor, use state-of-the-art instrumentation in recently modernized and newly-built chemistry facilities, and learn the physical and intellectual techniques necessary to become an independent researcher. Development of professional communication skills will be fostered by weekly research meetings at which students present and discuss their results and by having the students deliver a formal presentation at a final symposium. Students will examine ethical issues in scientific work through a weekly seminar series conducted by the faculty mentors in concert with ethicists from Santa Clara University's Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. This series increases awareness of ethical concerns in science (ethical sensitivity) and imparts the knowledge and skills needed for students to perform an ethical decision-making analysis (ethical judgment and commitment). Student recruitment partnerships established with faculty at local, high-minority-enrollment community colleges will serve as conduits for the participation of students from underrepresented groups. Santa Clara University will establish continuing mentoring relationships with these students with the goal of ensuring their immediate entry into four-year colleges and universities and their eventual entry into the chemistry workforce.