REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Chemistry & Biochemistry

佐治亚理工学院化学系的REU项目将在每年夏天将10名学生带到校园里，为期10周，参与一系列分析、生物、无机、有机、物理和聚合物化学的项目。拟议的NSF REU计划的一个主要重点是针对相当数量的女性和代表不足的少数族裔学生的入学，并为他们提供技能和动力，以开始在科学方面的研究生学习。每个参与者都将与一名教员合作，该教员在学生感兴趣的领域拥有一个活跃的研究小组。该计划的其他组成部分包括团队建设活动、定期小组会议、研讨会/研讨会系列(主题包括伦理、演讲技能、毕业生机会和研究前沿)、研究座谈会和对工业和/或政府实验室的实地考察。这些课程旨在让参与者熟悉一系列广泛的项目，为他们提供提高演讲技能的机会，并在学术、创业、经济和伦理框架内提供化学研究的视角。该项目包括与校园内其他暑期研究项目的广泛联合活动。预计REU计划将继续吸引代表不足的群体的高水平参与，类似于最近的计划，其中54%是女性，55%是代表不足的少数族裔，大多数参与者(84%)来自没有化学博士课程的学校。将通过与少数群体服务机构(MSI)和其他主要本科机构(PUI)的现有和新的外联活动以及与当地一所两年制学院的新伙伴关系来促进实现这一目标。

The REU program in the Department of Chemistry at Georgia Institute of Technology will bring 10 students to campus for ten weeks each summer to participate in a diverse array of projects in analytical, biological, inorganic, organic, physical, and polymer chemistry. A primary focus of the proposed NSF REU program is to target the enrollment of substantial numbers of women and underrepresented minority students and to provide them with skills and motivation to embark on graduate studies in the sciences. Each participant will work with an individual faculty member who has an active research group in an area of interest to the student. Other components of the program include team-building activities, regular group meetings, a seminar/workshop series (topics include ethics, presentation skills, graduate opportunities, and research frontiers), research symposia, and field trips to industrial and/or government laboratories. These serve to acquaint participants with a broad array of projects, provide them with the opportunity to enhance their presentation skills, and provide a perspective of chemical research in a scholarly, entrepreneurial, economic, and ethical framework. The program includes extensive joint activities with other summer research programs on campus. It is expected that the REU program will continue to attract the high level of participation of underrepresented groups similar to the most recent programs that included 54% women, 55% underrepresented minorities with most participants (84%) coming from schools that lacked a Ph.D. program in chemistry. This goal will be facilitated by both existing and new outreach activities with Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs) and other Principally Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), and a new partnership with a local two-year college.