Integrated Computational and Experimental REU Site

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会化学部颁发，旨在支持由杰弗里·D. Evanseck和Jeffry D. A.马都拉，都在迪克讷大学。主要研究人员将更新他们的新REU网站，以继续其对来自代表性不足的人口和研究基础设施有限的机构的本科生的职业和教育的影响。迪克讷的本科研究模式建立了研究团队，其中七个学生教师对从历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCU），路易斯·斯托克斯联盟少数民族参与科学，技术，工程和数学（LSAMP），和小学本科院校（PUI）与国家认可和校外资助的研究小组从迪克讷大学集成。我们的目标是提供高质量的本科研究经验，激励学生和教师实现最高的学术成绩，并为科学研究和发现做好准备。其核心思想是建立有意义的，全年的，长期的研究合作，由学术生产力和卓越的本科生培训的需要驱动。该模式被设想为自我延续，其中投资合作最终成熟为独立资助，并被主办机构和其他参与者之间的新伙伴关系所取代。假设是，强大的财政和基础设施支持的研究合作将振兴HBCU，LSAMP和PUI教师，他们将反过来直接影响学生和学习环境。迪克讷的教师将培训学生，并从研究扩展中获得不可估量的收益。REU学生将有意义和新颖的化学研究经验与广泛的科学主题，如纳米技术，国土安全，药物设计，法医科学和化学生物学。每个学生将直接与实验室的两名教师导师（家庭机构和迪克讷）合作，并与迪克讷的理论教师联络员进行咨询，因为每个REU项目都有明确的计算组件作为补充，以扩大学生的经验。迪克讷拥有非凡的资源，NSF资助的设施，在分子建模建立研究计划，并在学生安置和强大的合作伙伴关系证明记录。学生将接受培训，使用最先进的仪器来补充他们的实验研究，并建立宝贵的技能。计划的活动通过使用有意义的研究经验来吸引和留住国家多样化的学生人才库，从而支持REU计划的意图，这将通过增加化学或生物化学领域的专家来增强和多样化美国劳动力。

This award from the Division of Chemistry at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) led by Professors Jeffrey D. Evanseck and Jeffry D. A. Madura, both at Duquesne University. The principal investigators will renew their novel REU Site to continue its impact on the careers and education of undergraduates from underrepresented populations and from institutions with limited research infrastructure. Duquesne's model of undergraduate research builds research teams, where seven student-faculty pairs recruited from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (LSAMP), and Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUI) are integrated with nationally recognized and extramurally funded research groups from Duquesne University. The objective is to deliver a quality undergraduate research experience that motivates students and faculty to achieve their highest academic performance and prepare them for scientific research and discovery. The core idea is to establish meaningful, year-around, and long-term research collaborations driven by the need for academic productivity and excellence in undergraduate training. The model is envisioned to perpetuate itself, where invested collaborations ultimately mature to independent funding, and are replaced by new partnerships between the host institution and other participants.The hypothesis is that strong financial and infrastructure support of research collaborations will invigorate HBCU, LSAMP, and PUI faculty, who will in turn directly impact students and learning environments at their home institutions. Duquesne faculty will train students, and gain immeasurably from the research expansion. REU students will have meaningful and novel chemical research experiences with broad scientific themes, such as nanotechnology, homeland security, pharmaceutical drug design, forensic sciences and chemical biology. Each student will work directly with two faculty mentors in the laboratory (home institution and Duquesne), and consult with a theoretical faculty liaison from Duquesne, since each REU project is supplemented by well-defined computational components to expand the students' experience. Duquesne has extraordinary resources, NSF-funded facilities, established research programs in molecular modeling, and a proven record in student placement and strong partnerships. The students will be trained to use state-of-the-art instrumentation to complement their experimental research and build invaluable skill sets. The activities planned support the intent of the REU Program by using meaningful research experiences to attract and retain the nation's diverse student talent pool, which will have the consequence of enhancing and diversifying the U.S. workforce by adding experts in the fields of chemistry or biochemistry.