REU Site: Research Experiences for Undergraduates in Chemistry & Biochemistry

佐治亚理工学院化学系的REU项目每年夏天将带10名学生到校园十周，参与分析、生物、无机、有机、物理和聚合物化学方面的各种项目。拟议的NSF REU计划的主要重点是针对大量女性和代表性不足的少数民族学生的入学，并为他们提供从事科学研究生学习的技能和动力。每个参与者将与一个在学生感兴趣的领域有一个活跃的研究小组的教员一起工作。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（主题包括道德，演讲技巧，毕业生机会和研究前沿），研究专题讨论会以及到工业和/或政府实验室的实地考察。这些课程有助于参与者熟悉广泛的项目，为他们提供提高演讲技巧的机会，并在学术、企业、经济和伦理框架中提供化学研究的视角。该项目包括与校园其他暑期研究项目的广泛联合活动。预计REU项目将继续吸引未被充分代表的群体的高水平参与，类似于最近的项目，其中包括54%的女性，55%的未被充分代表的少数民族，大多数参与者（84%）来自缺乏化学博士学位的学校。与少数民族服务机构（msi）和其他主要本科院校（PUIs）开展的现有和新的外展活动，以及与当地一所两年制学院的新伙伴关系，将有助于实现这一目标。

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.