REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities in Biophysics

该奖项支持密歇根大学生物物理系的一个新的REU网站。该网站将支持每年七名学生在化学，物理，数学和生命科学的交叉点进行为期十周的跨学科研究经验。 UM的生物物理学课程是美国为数不多的独立生物物理学课程之一，旨在促进多学科研究并提供跨学科的本科和研究生教育。由于生物物理学在智力上非常多样化，其目的不仅是提供该学科子领域的研究经验，而且还提供了该领域最先进研究的概述，以及常用的实验方法和技术。因此，研究经验的构建有两个组成部分：1）学生将被分配到符合他们兴趣的实验室，并由经验丰富的研究人员运行，以参与创新的科学探索，2）REU学生将参与生物物理方法和技术（HEBMAT）的实践探索，这将向他们介绍各种现代实验和计算研究技术。完成该计划后，学生将获得令人兴奋的研究经验，并将获得一个生物物理工具包，使他们在科学和学术环境中更加成功和具有竞争力。这一核心经验将通过每周的研究研讨会和讲习班，加上社会互动的机会，这将经常与其他暑期本科研究计划协调，以扩大学生融入我们的科学和专业社区。 为了适应生物物理学日益增长的知识多样性，该网站强烈强调了人口多样性在该计划中的重要性，作为使该领域在未来更加多样化的种子。该奖项由美国国家科学基金会的物理学部、生物学部和化学部共同资助

This award supports a new REU site in the Biophysics Department at the University of Michigan. The site will support seven students per year for ten weeks of interdisciplinary research experience at the intersection of chemistry, physics, mathematics and the life sciences. The Biophysics Program at UM is one of very few standalone biophysics programs in the US, created to foster multidisciplinary research and provide interdisciplinary undergraduate and graduate education. Since Biophysics is intellectually extremely diverse, the aim is not only to provide research experience in a subfield of the discipline, but also provide an overview of state-of the-art research in the field, and the experimental methods and techniques that are commonly used. Therefore, the research experience is constructed to have two components: 1) the students will be assigned to the labs that match their interest and are run by experienced researchers to participate innovative scientific exploration, 2) the REU students will participate in hands-on exploration of biophysical methods and techniques (HEBMAT) that will introduce them to various modern experimental and computational research techniques. Upon completion of the program the students will have gained exciting research experience and will have acquired a biophysical toolkit making them more successful and competitive in the scientific and academic environment. This core experience will be augmented by weekly research seminars and workshops, plus opportunities for social interactions, which will often be coordinated with other summer undergraduate research programs to broaden the students' integration into our scientific and professional communities. To match the increasing intellectual diversity of biophysics, the site strongly emphasizes the importance of demographic diversity in the program as a seed for making the field as a whole more diverse in the future. This award is co-funded by the Division of Physics, the Biology Directorate, and the Chemistry Division at the National Science Foundation