REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities in Biophysics

该奖项每年支持七名学生参加密歇根大学生物物理学夏季研究项目。该网站将为新生提供化学、物理、数学和生命科学交叉领域的跨学科研究经验。由于生物物理学在知识上极其多样化，其目的不仅是提供该学科子领域的研究经验，而且还提供该领域最先进研究的概述以及常用的实验方法和技术。因此，研究经验由两个组成部分组成：1）学生将被分配到符合他们兴趣且由经验丰富的研究人员运行的实验室，参与创新的科学探索，2）REU学生将被允许（在他们的研究导师的建议下自行选择）参与生物物理方法和技术（HEBMAT）的实践探索，这将向他们介绍各种现代实验和计算研究技术。因此，完成该课程后，学生将获得令人兴奋的研究经验，并将获得生物物理工具包，使他们在科学和学术环境中更加成功和更具竞争力。这种核心经验将通过每周的研究研讨会和讲习班以及社交互动的机会得到增强，这些机会通常与其他暑期本科生研究项目相协调，以扩大学生融入我们的科学和专业社区的范围。 该奖项由 NSF 物理部和化学部资助。

This award provides support for seven students per year to participate in a summer research program in Biophysics at the University of Michigan. The site will provide incoming students with an interdisciplinary research experience at the intersection of chemistry, physics, mathematics and the life sciences. Since Biophysics is intellectually extremely diverse, the aim is not only to provide research experience in a subfield of the discipline, but also provide an overview of state-of the-art research in the field, and the experimental methods and techniques that are commonly used. Therefore, the research experience is constructed to have two components: 1) the students will be assigned to the labs that match their interest and that are run by experienced researchers to participate in innovative scientific exploration, 2) the REU students will be allowed (at their own choosing with the advice of their research mentor) to participate in hands-on exploration of biophysical methods and techniques (HEBMAT) that will introduce them to various modern experimental and computational research techniques. Thus, upon completion of the program the students will have gained exciting research experience and will have acquired a biophysical toolkit making them more successful and competitive in the scientific and academic environment. This core experience will be augmented by weekly research seminars and workshops, plus opportunities for social interactions, which will often be coordinated with other summer undergraduate research programs to broaden the students' integration into our scientific and professional communities. This award is funded by the Division of Physics and the Division of Chemistry within NSF.