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

化学部支持由NSF本科生领导小组研究经验（REU-LG）领导的这个项目，一组化学REU网站总监和其他来自化学本科生研究社区的人。 该小组的成立是为了支持和加强REU化学计划，其中包括70多个独立的REU网站。 领导小组（LG）有四个总体目标：增加REU社区内的沟通和与NSF，增加受化学REU计划影响的学生的多样性，增加REU机会的数量，并改善化学REU计划的评估和评估。 LG还将推动新项目，以推进其主要目标。 例如，LG将帮助组织化学REU现场主任和NSF路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）计划代表的会议。 本次会议，沿着与其他LSAMP/REU研讨会的教师参与者，将加强两个程序之间的伙伴关系，促进LSAMP学生在REU暑期课程的包容性，增加REU社区内的沟通，并普遍鼓励在本科层次的化学研究代表性不足的群体扩大参与。

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.