REU Site: Interdisciplinary Research Opportunities in Biophysics

该奖项每年为七名学生提供支持，参加密歇根大学生物物理学的夏季研究计划。该网站将为即将入学的学生提供化学，物理，数学和生命科学交叉的跨学科研究经验。由于生物物理学在智力上非常多样化，其目的不仅是提供该学科子领域的研究经验，而且还提供了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，研究经验被构建为具有两个组成部分：1）学生将被分配到符合他们兴趣的实验室，由经验丰富的研究人员管理，参与创新的科学探索，2）REU学生可以（根据研究导师的建议自行选择）参与生物物理方法和技术的实践探索（HEBMAT）这将向他们介绍各种现代实验和计算研究技术。因此，在完成该计划后，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具有竞争力。这一核心经验将通过每周的研究研讨会和讲习班，加上社会互动的机会，这将经常与其他暑期本科研究计划协调，以扩大学生融入我们的科学和专业社区。 该奖项由NSF的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.