REU Site: Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program

REU 网站：Ole Miss 物理化学夏季研究计划

• 批准号: 1156713
• 负责人: Nathan Hammer
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Mississippi
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156713&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Ole; Miss; Physical

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.

化学部（CHE）和EPSCoR办公室在国家科学基金会支持本科生（REU）在密西西比大学网站的研究经验的这个奖项。该网站的领导人将带来10名学生到校园10个星期，每年夏天进行物理化学领域的研究。这个REU网站将允许本科生谁是从其他机构招募参加奥莱小姐物理化学夏季研究计划，这是一个既定的夏季计划，具有促进物理和计算化学研究小组的成员之间的沟通和合作在密西西比大学（奥莱小姐）的良好记录。这些学生将在成功、受资助和合作的研究小组中进行原创性研究。他们还将参加与奥莱小姐本科生和研究生，教师和工作人员组织的学术和社会活动的夏季时间表的一部分。一个既定的暑期课程的这种自然扩展将允许更多的学生利用一个开发的程序，而在同一时间支持多个NSF资助的研究小组与本科研究生在一个协作的环境。REU计划的本科生参与者将有机会在六名教师的实验室和密西西比超级计算研究中心（MCSR）进行原创研究。所概述的许多项目都是合作的，由多名高级人员指导，他们将在许多不同领域提供研究经验。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，以及新开发材料的计算建模与能源或药物开发应用。计划从有大量代表性不足群体的学校招收学生，并与鲁斯特学院、奥尔康州立大学、密西西比河谷州立大学和图格鲁学院进行了接触，这些学校都是传统上的黑人学院和大学。此外，学生将从小学本科院校（PUI），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招募。