iREU Site: The US/France REU Exchange Site in Chemistry

该奖项由佛罗里达大学化学系（CHE）颁发，用于支持2012-2014年夏季佛罗里达大学和法国之间的本科生国际研究经验（iREU）项目的更新。这次续约涉及莫尔豪斯学院，一个主要的本科机构（PUI）。美国项目将由佛罗里达大学的Adrian E. Roitberg教授、Valeria D. Kleiman教授和Daniel Talham教授以及莫尔豪斯学院的James P. Brown教授全面指导。该计划的重点是在材料化学方面提供了一个扩展的国际夏季研究项目。该项目每年春季在美国举行出发前会议，目的是让参与者为他们在国外的长期停留做好准备。该计划的长度允许为研究项目做出有意义的贡献，这些项目将导致与本科生共同撰写的同行评审出版物。每年夏天，美国教师还将前往法国提供现场指导。这是通过法国合作伙伴提供的特邀教授职位实现的。学生被分成至少2人一组，分布在3个不同的研究地点（巴黎、图卢兹和斯特拉斯堡），并根据他们以前的经验和申请陈述分配到研究小组。学生们将有机会在美国化学会全国春季会议的本科生海报会议上向广大观众传播他们的研究成果。拟议的i-REU站点将提供高水平的研究经验，使参与者有机会深入了解另一种文化，并为欧洲统一对美国科学的日益增加的影响做好准备。与美国莫尔豪斯学院（Morehouse College）非常成功的合作关系仍在继续，这为大量有才华、未被充分代表的少数族裔本科生提供了机会。该计划的影响是通过参与该计划的来自不同社区的代表性不足的STEM团体数量的增加来衡量的。大多数去法国的学生不会来自佛罗里达大学。参加者必须有化学、生物化学或物理方面的研究经验。作为一个真正的交流项目，通过法国和佛罗里达大学的资助，同样数量的法国学生将被带到美国，在佛罗里达大学化学系进行研究，增加本科和博士课程的国际化。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports the renewal of an International Research Experiences for Undergraduates (iREU) site between the University of Florida and France for the summers of 2012-2014. This renewal involves Morehouse College, a primarily undergraduate institution (PUI). The U.S. program will be under the overall direction of Professors Adrian E. Roitberg, Valeria D. Kleiman, and Daniel Talham of UF and Professor James P. Brown, of Morehouse College. The focus of the program provides an extended international summer research project in materials chemistry. It starts each year with a spring pre-departure meeting in the US in order to prepare participants for their extended stay abroad. The length of the program allows for meaningful contributions to research projects that will lead to peer review publications with undergraduate co-authorship. US faculty will also be in France each summer to provide on-site mentoring. This is made possible through invited professor positions contributed by French partners. Students are distributed in groups of at least 2 per research site spread over 3 different sites (Paris, Toulouse and Strasbourg) and assigned to research groups according to their previous experience and application statements. The students will have the opportunity to disseminate their research results to a broad audience at the undergraduate poster session at the American Chemical Society National Spring meeting following the summer research experience.The proposed i-REU Site will provide a high-level research experience, allow the participants a deep cultural immersion with an opportunity to learn another culture, and prepare for the increasing impact of European unification on US science. The very successful partnership with Morehouse College in the US is continuing, which has provided access to a large pool of talented underrepresented minority undergraduates. The impact of this program is measured by the increased number of underrepresented STEM groups participating in the program who are from diverse communities. The majority of the students going to France will not be from the University of Florida. Participants will have previous research experiences with backgrounds in chemistry, biochemistty or physics. As a true exchange program and through a collection of French and UF funding, a similar number of French students will be brought to the US to perform research at UF's chemistry department, increasing the internationalization of the undergraduate and PhD programs.