IRES: An American-Austrian Student Exchange for Chemistry Undergraduate Students

国际学生研究经验（IRES）项目为美国本科生提供了一个有可能建立未来国际合作的国外科学和工程研究经验的机会。获得该奖项后，Karin Ruhlandt-Senge PI和雪城大学的合作PI将与位于奥地利格拉茨的格拉茨工业大学（TUG）的有机化学研究所的Frank Uhlig合作，创建一个互惠的为期十周的研究交流项目，涉及美国和奥地利化学领域的本科生。该项目旨在满足美国理科本科学生在不损害其所需学术科学课程的情况下拥有国际经验的需求。这项资助将在夏季提供，使美国化学学生能够在世界一流的设施中参与激烈而有意义的化学研究，同时在国际环境中参与不同的文化。该项目将在全国范围内招募美国学生。雪城大学（Syracuse University）将为两名来自弱势群体或第一代大学生的学生提供资金，让他们参加该项目。学生将在化学系广泛的研究机会中从事不同的研究课题。在不同的文化环境中进行原创性研究的经验将使这群美国学生在进入劳动力市场时，为在全球研究社区中运作和领导做更好的准备。

The International Research Experiences for Students (IRES) program provides an opportunity for US undergraduate students to have a foreign science and engineering research experience with the potential to build future international collaboration. With this award PI Karin Ruhlandt-Senge, and Co-PIs from Syracuse University, will collaborate with Frank Uhlig in the Institut fuer Anorganische Chemie at the Technische Universitaet Graz (TUG), in Graz Austria to create a reciprocal ten-week research exchange program involving American and Austrian undergraduate students in the field of chemistry. This program seeks to address the need for American science undergraduate students to have an international experience without detriment to their required academic science curriculum. Offered over the summer months, the grant outlined allows American chemistry students to be involved in intense, meaningful chemistry research in world-class facilities, while participating in a different culture in an international setting. US students will be recruited nationwide for this program. Syracuse University will provide funds for two of its own students who are either from an underrepresented community, or are first-generation college students, to participate in the program. Students will work on different research topics from the wide range of research opportunities in the chemistry department of TUG. The experience of conducting original research in a different cultural environment will allow this group of American students to enter the workforce better prepared to operate and to lead in a global research community.