REU Site: Columbia University Research Experiences for Undergraduates

化学部（CHE）的这一奖项支持哥伦比亚大学2008-2010年夏季本科生研究经验（REU）网站的更新。 该项目将由詹姆斯·瓦伦蒂尼指导，并得到哥伦比亚大学化学系教员弗吉尼亚康沃尔语和鲁本·冈萨雷斯的协助。 这个REU网站将带来八个NSF资助的学生校园为期十周的时间，每年夏天进行化学前沿研究。 另外8名REU学生将获得机构资金的支持。 大三、大二和高素质的大一本科生将从全国各地招募。该计划可以为REU本科研究生提供的特殊优势之一是有机会参与超出化学系教师和资源的研究。哥伦比亚有一个纳米科学与工程中心和一个材料研究科学与工程中心，每个中心都汇集了化学系和物理系以及工程与应用科学学院的教师。化学系的许多教师是中心的主要研究人员，该计划的REU学生将有机会选择中心研究工作的一部分项目。化学REU学生还可以选择与中心的非化学教师合作，或在生物科学系教师的实验室工作，他们与化学系的成员有广泛的合作。这些许多跨学科的努力跨越化学研究的前沿，并提供哥伦比亚的REU学生独特的机会。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports the renewal of a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site at Columbia University for the summers of 2008-2010. The program will be directed by James Valentini with assistance from Virginia Cornish and Ruben Gonzalez, faculty members in the Department of Chemistry at Columbia. This REU site will bring eight NSF funded students to campus for a ten-week period each summer to conduct cutting edge research in chemistry. An additional eight REU students will be supported with institutional funds. Junior, sophomore, and highly qualified freshman undergraduate students will be recruited from across the nation. One of the special advantages that this program can offer to the REU undergraduate research students is the opportunity to participate in research that extends beyond the faculty and resources of the Chemistry Department. Columbia has a Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center and a Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, each of which brings together faculty from the Chemistry Department and faculty in Physics and in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. Many faculty in the Chemistry Department are principal investigators in the Centers and the REU students in this program will have the opportunity to choose projects that are part of the Centers research efforts. Chemistry REU students can also choose to work with non-Chemistry faculty in the Centers or work in the labs of faculty in the Biological Sciences Department who have extensive collaborations with members of the Chemistry Department. These many interdisciplinary efforts span the frontiers of chemistry research and provide Columbia's REU students unique opportunities.