REU Site: Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会化学系（CHE）和EPSCoR办公室颁发，支持密西西比大学本科生研究经验（REU）站点。每年夏天，基地负责人将带10名学生到校园进行为期10周的物理化学研究。这个REU网站将允许从其他机构招募的本科生参加密西西比大学物理化学暑期研究项目，这是一个已经建立的暑期项目，在促进密西西比大学物理和计算化学研究小组成员之间的沟通和合作方面有着良好的记录。这些学生将在成功的、资助的和合作的研究小组中进行原创性研究。他们还将与密西西比大学的本科生、研究生、教职员工一起参加为期一个暑假的有组织的学术和社会活动。这种已建立的暑期项目的自然扩展将允许更多的学生利用已开发的项目，同时在协作环境中支持多个nsf资助的研究小组和本科生研究学生。参与REU项目的本科生将有机会在六名教职员工的实验室和密西西比超级计算研究中心（MCSR）进行原创性研究。许多概述的项目是合作的，由多位资深人员指导，他们将提供许多不同领域的研究经验。以实验和理论物理化学为中心，研究项目包括新型发射材料的合成设计，确定新开发材料的光物理性质，重要生物相关相互作用的光谱研究和计算建模，以及具有能源或药物开发应用的新开发材料的计算建模。计划从有大量未被充分代表的群体的学校招收学生，与Rust学院，Alcorn州立大学，密西西比河谷州立大学和Tougaloo学院建立了联系，这些都是传统上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU）。此外，学生将从主要本科院校（PUIs）招募，如米尔萨普斯学院、密西西比女子大学、贝尔黑文学院和密西西比学院。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) and the EPSCoR Office at the National Science Foundation supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at the University of Mississippi. The site leaders will bring 10 students to campus for 10 weeks each summer to conduct research in the area of Physical Chemistry. This REU Site will allow undergraduates who are recruited from other institutions to participate in the Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program, which is an established summer program that has a demonstrated track record for fostering communication and collaboration between the members of the physical and computational chemistry research groups at the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss). These students will perform original research in successful, funded, and collaborating research groups. They will also take part in a summer-long schedule of organized academic and social activities with Ole Miss undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. This natural expansion of an established summer program will allow additional students to take advantage of a developed program, while at the same time supporting multiple NSF-funded research groups with undergraduate research students in a collaborative environment. Undergraduate student participants in the REU program will have the opportunity to perform original research in the laboratories of six faculty members and at the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research (MCSR). Many of the projects outlined are collaborative, with mentoring by multiple senior personnel who will provide research experiences in many different areas. Centered on experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, the research projects include synthetic design of novel emissive materials, determining the photophysical properties of newly-developed materials, the spectroscopic study and computational modeling of important biologically relevant interactions, and computational modeling of newly-developed materials with energy or drug development applications. Recruitment of students from schools with large numbers of underrepresented groups is planned, with contacts having been made at Rust College, Alcorn State University, Mississippi Valley State University, and Tougaloo College, all are traditionally Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). In addition, students will be recruited from Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) such as Millsaps College, Mississippi University for Women, Belhaven College, and Mississippi College.