Summer REU Site on Cellular Engineering

EEC-0649041 Surita Bhatia该奖项授予马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学的一个REU站点，每年将有10名本科生在细胞工程领域进行为期三年的研究。该计划的具体目标是：1）鼓励和激励学生攻读细胞工程研究生课程; 2）培养学生从独立研究人员过渡到独立研究人员; 3）使学生能够通过积极参与“超级小组”研究项目和涉及生命科学和工程/物理科学的教师和学生的会议来有效地跨学科沟通; 4）提供学生职业成功的策略，包括以职业指导、道德、确定导师和磨练“软技能”为中心的活动。 了解细胞功能并操纵细胞/组织以特定方式运行是生物医学、生物技术和制药行业许多企业的基础。招聘工作将针对化学工程、生物工程、化学、生物学和生物化学专业的本科生，特别强调招聘来自代表性不足群体的学生。学生将在东北研究生教育联盟和教授（NEAGEP）的协助下招募。 NEAGEP包括10个研究广泛和6个少数民族服务机构，积极合作，以增加获得科学，技术，工程和数学（STEM）学科博士学位的国内学生数量。 NEAGEP特别强调招聘和留住代表性不足的学生，并鼓励他们进入教授职位。

EEC-0649041Surita BhatiaThis award for an REU site at the University of Massachusetts Amherst will engage 10 undergraduate students each year for three years in research experiences in the area of Cellular Engineering. The specific objectives of the program are to: 1) encourage and motivate students to pursue graduate studies in cellular engineering; 2) train students to transition from dependent to independent researchers; 3) enable students to communicate effectively across disciplines through active participation in "supergroup" research projects and meetings involving faculty and students from life sciences and the engineering/physical sciences; and 4) provide students with strategies for professional success, including activities centered on career guidance, ethics, identifying mentors, and honing "soft skills". Understanding cellular function and manipulating cells/tissues to perform in a particular manner is the basis for many ventures in the biomedical, biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries.Recruitment efforts will be targeted to undergraduate students majoring in chemical engineering, bioengineering, chemistry, biology, and biochemistry, with special emphasis placed on recruitment of students from underrepresented groups. Students will be recruited with the assistance of the Northeast Alliance for Graduate Education and the Professoriate (NEAGEP). NEAGEP includes ten research-extensive and six minority-serving institutions that actively collaborate to increase the number of domestic students who receive doctoral degrees in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) disciplines. NEAGEP places particular emphasis on recruiting and retaining underrepresented students and encouraging their entrance into the professoriate.