Research Experience for Undergraduates: Green Chemistry in Colorful Colorado

本科生研究经历：多彩科罗拉多州的绿色化学

• 批准号: 1156932
• 负责人: Allen Schoffstall
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: University of Colorado at Colorado Springs
• 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: 2012-09-15 至 2016-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1156932&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Research; Experience; Undergraduates; Green; Chemistry

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site at University of Colorado- Colorado Springs (UCCS). The REU Program will bring seven students to campus for ten weeks each summer to conduct Green Chemistry research. One important goal of this REU Site is to train future scientists from institutions with no research opportunities, including community colleges and four-year colleges having limited research opportunities. In this region, several of these campuses have a large percentage of underrepresented students. The theme of this project, Green Chemistry, is a field that has been developing exponentially in academic and industrial venues. This project especially features elements of atom economy, small-scale reactions and analyses, and reactions in aqueous media. Some of the scientific goals of this project include: developing novel ligands that can catalytically remediate heavy metals from soils and wastewater, detecting the presence of household chemicals, hormones, and endocrine-disrupting compounds in the environment, and developing a photocatalyst for splitting water into H2 and O2. One of the collaborative inorganic/organic/biochemistry projects uses the rapidly expanding synthetic field of azide-alkyne "click chemistry". Participating faculty members have a strong commitment to undergraduate research and aim to prepare students for the transition to graduate school and research careers. Students in this program will benefit from having experienced UCCS student and faculty researchers working alongside them in a brand-new, handicap-accessible facility especially designed for undergraduate student researchers. One goal is to create a life-long support community for REU students composed of the other REU students and faculty mentors, to help these students achieve their educational and career goals. Results of the experiments are to be made available to the scientific community-at-large on the UCCS REU web site and through publications and presentations at American Chemical Society meetings and Green Chemistry conferences.

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会化学部 (CHE) 颁发，用于支持科罗拉多大学科罗拉多斯普林斯分校 (UCCS) 的本科生研究体验 (REU) 项目。 REU 项目每年夏天将带领七名学生到校园进行十周的绿色化学研究。 REU 站点的一个重要目标是培养来自没有研究机会的机构的未来科学家，包括研究机会有限的社区学院和四年制学院。在该地区，其中一些校园的学生人数不足。该项目的主题是绿色化学，这是一个在学术和工业场所呈指数级发展的领域。该项目特别关注原子经济、小规模反应和分析以及水介质中的反应等要素。该项目的一些科学目标包括：开发可以催化修复土壤和废水中重金属的新型配体，检测环境中家用化学品、激素和内分泌干扰化合物的存在，以及开发用于将水分解为 H2 和 O2 的光催化剂。无机/有机/生物化学合作项目之一使用快速扩展的叠氮炔“点击化学”合成领域。参与的教师对本科生研究有着坚定的承诺，旨在帮助学生为向研究生院和研究职业的过渡做好准备。该项目的学生将受益于经验丰富的 UCCS 学生和教师研究人员在专门为本科生研究人员设计的全新、无障碍设施中与他们一起工作。目标之一是为 REU 学生创建一个由其他 REU 学生和教师导师组成的终身支持社区，帮助这些学生实现他们的教育和职业目标。实验结果将通过 UCCS REU 网站以及美国化学会会议和绿色化学会议上的出版物和演示向广大科学界公开。