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.

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会化学部 (CHE) 和 EPSCoR 办公室颁发，用于支持密西西比大学本科生研究体验 (REU) 网站。 The site leaders will bring 10 students to campus for 10 weeks each summer to conduct research in the area of Physical Chemistry. REU 站点将允许从其他机构招收的本科生参加 Ole Miss 物理化学夏季研究计划，该计划是一项既定的夏季计划，在促进密西西比大学 (Ole Miss) 物理和计算化学研究小组成员之间的沟通与合作方面拥有良好的记录。 These students will perform original research in successful, funded, and collaborating research groups.他们还将与密西西比大学的本科生、研究生、教职员工一起参加整个夏季有组织的学术和社交活动。已建立的暑期项目的自然扩展将使更多的学生能够利用已开发的项目，同时在协作环境中支持多个 NSF 资助的研究小组与本科生的合作。 REU 项目的本科生参与者将有机会在六名教员的实验室和密西西比超级计算研究中心 (MCSR) 进行原创研究。概述的许多项目都是协作性的，由多名高级人员指导，他们将提供许多不同领域的研究经验。研究项目以实验和理论物理化学为中心，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、重要生物学相关相互作用的光谱研究和计算建模，以及新开发材料与能源或药物开发应用的计算建模。计划从拥有大量弱势群体的学校招募学生，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加卢学院建立了联系，这些学校都是传统上的黑人学院和大学 (HBCU)。此外，还将从米尔萨普斯学院、密西西比女子大学、贝尔黑文学院和密西西比学院等主要本科院校 (PUI) 招收学生。