The Chemistry REU Leadership Group: Improving, Expanding and Diversifying the REU Experience

化学部支持这个由NSF本科生研究经验领导小组(REU-LG)领导的项目，该小组由化学REU网站主任和来自化学本科生研究社区的其他人组成。该小组是为了支持和加强REU化学计划而创建的，该计划由70多个单独的REU站点组成。领导小组(LG)有四个总体目标：增加REU社区内部和与NSF的沟通，增加受化学REU项目影响的学生的多样性，增加REU机会的数量，以及改进对化学REU项目的评价和评估。LG还将推动新的项目，以推进其主要目标。例如，LG将帮助组织一次化学REU站点主任和NSF Louis Stokes少数群体参与联盟(LSAMP)计划代表的会议。这次会议以及其他LSAMP/REU教师研讨会将加强两个项目之间的伙伴关系，促进LSAMP学生参加REU暑期项目，加强REU社区内的交流，并总体上鼓励未被充分代表的群体更广泛地参与本科水平的化学研究。

The Division of Chemistry supports this project led by the NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates Leadership Group (REU-LG), a group of Chemistry REU site directors and others from the chemistry undergraduate research community. The group was created to support and enhance the REU chemistry program, which consists of over seventy individual REU sites. The Leadership Group (LG) has four general goals: increasing communication within the REU community and with the NSF, increasing the diversity of the students impacted by Chemistry REU programs, increasing the number of REU opportunities, and improving the evaluation and assessment of the Chemistry REU program. The LG also will catalyze new projects to advance its major goals. For example, the LG will help organize a meeting of Chemistry REU site directors and representatives from the NSF Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) program. This meeting, along with other LSAMP/REU workshops for faculty participants, will enhance partnerships between the two programs, facilitate the inclusion of LSAMP students in REU summer programs, increase communication within the REU community, and generally encourage the broadened participation of underrepresented groups in chemical research at the undergraduate level.