Summer REU Site on Cellular Engineering

该奖项将授予马萨诸塞大学阿姆赫斯特分校的一个REU站点，每年将有10名本科生参加为期三年的蜂窝工程领域的研究。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；2)培养学生从依赖研究者到独立研究者的过渡；3)通过积极参与涉及生命科学和工程/物理科学教师和学生的“超级小组”研究项目和会议，使学生能够有效地进行跨学科交流；4)为学生提供职业成功的策略，包括以职业指导、道德规范、寻找导师和磨练“软技能”为中心的活动。了解细胞功能和操纵细胞/组织以特定方式执行是生物医学，生物技术和制药行业许多企业的基础。招生工作将以化学工程、生物工程、化学、生物学、生物化学专业的本科生为对象，重点招收代表性不足的学生。在东北大学研究生和教授教育联盟（NEAGEP）的协助下招收学生。NEAGEP包括10个研究型机构和6个少数民族服务机构，这些机构积极合作，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人数。NEAGEP特别强调招募和留住代表性不足的学生，并鼓励他们进入教授岗位。

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.