REU Site: Achieving the Next Level: Research Experiences for Underserved Populations

REU 网站：实现新水平：服务不足人群的研究经验

• 批准号: 1263097
• 负责人: Kenneth Brown
• 金额: $ 27.5万
• 依托单位: Hope College
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2013-06-01 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263097&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Achieving; Next; Level

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site is led by Professors Kenneth L. Brown and Graham F. Peaslee at Hope College. The research projects supported at this Site entitled "Achieving the Next Level: Research Experiences for Underserved Populations", is dedicated to recruiting and training underrepresented minority students and students from nearby 2-Year Community Colleges (2YCs). The collaboration with the 2YCs involves a pre-training program which will allow students to work on research projects during the academic year prior to starting the summer research experience. The improved professional development activities supplement the diversity of research projects. For example, the REU Site will be supported by the on-campus career services office in helping students to develop a resume portfolio. In addition, continued support from the previously established Student Advisory Board, consisting of professionals from local industry, medical doctors, and attorneys, will provide students with access to a broad range of expertise in career planning. The research projects for this REU site are innovative and quite capable of being completed by undergraduate students. The students involved in the research enterprise receive a full complement of experiences in literature review, hands-on training with modern chemical instrumentation, data analysis, and in the dissemination of results through group meetings and formal oral and poster presentations. The projects span a wide range of areas from designing electrochemical sensors and understanding biochemical mechanisms of gene regulation, to designing polymer coatings. All of the REU students will have access to an intensive and transformative research experience that prepares them to enter competitive STEM fields. This REU Site is focused on increasing the number of minority students and students from 2YCs entering graduate school to pursue an advanced degree in the STEM fields. Hence, all of these enhanced initiatives will help these underserved populations achieve the next level of success in their chosen STEM discipline. The research activities described in this proposal will help to build a cohesive community of researchers who are equipped with the research skills needed to solve current and challenging research problems that have local and global implications.

这项由国家科学基金会化学部(CHE)支持本科生研究经验(REU)的奖项由霍普学院的肯尼思·L·布朗和格雷厄姆·F·皮斯利教授领导。该网站支持的研究项目题为“达到下一个水平：服务不足人群的研究经验”，致力于招募和培训未被充分代表的少数民族学生和附近两年制社区学院(2YC)的学生。与2YCs的合作包括一项前期培训计划，该计划将允许学生在开始暑期研究体验之前的学年从事研究项目。改进的专业发展活动补充了研究项目的多样性。例如，REU网站将得到校园就业服务办公室的支持，帮助学生开发简历组合。此外，由当地行业专业人士、医生和律师组成的先前成立的学生咨询委员会的持续支持，将为学生提供广泛的职业规划专业知识。这个REU网站的研究项目是创新的，很有能力由本科生完成。参与研究企业的学生在文献回顾、使用现代化学仪器的实践培训、数据分析以及通过小组会议和正式口头和海报演示传播结果方面获得了全面的经验。这些项目涵盖了从设计电化学传感器到了解基因调控的生化机制，再到设计聚合物涂层的广泛领域。所有REU的学生都将有机会获得密集和变革性的研究体验，为他们进入竞争激烈的STEM领域做好准备。这个REU网站的重点是增加少数民族学生和2YC学生进入研究生院攻读STEM领域的高级学位的人数。因此，所有这些增强的举措都将帮助这些服务不足的人群在他们选择的STEM学科上取得更高水平的成功。本提案所述的研究活动将有助于建立一个具有凝聚力的研究人员群体，这些研究人员具备解决当前具有地方和全球影响的具有挑战性的研究问题所需的研究技能。