Integrated Computational and Experimental REU Site

综合计算和实验 REU 站点

• 批准号: 1263279
• 负责人: Jeffrey Evanseck
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Duquesne University
• 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: 2013-06-15 至 2017-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1263279&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integrated; Computational; Experimental; REU; Site

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.

国家科学基金会化学系的该奖项支持杜肯大学（Duquesne University）教授Jeffrey D. Evanseck和Jeffry D. A. Madura领导的本科生（REU）的研究经验。首席调查人员将续签其小说的REU网站，以继续影响其代表性不足的人群以及研究基础设施有限的机构的本科生的职业和教育。杜肯大学的本科研究模型建立了研究团队，从历史悠久的黑人学院和大学（HBCU），路易斯·斯托克斯（HBCU），路易斯·斯托克斯联盟参与科学，技术，工程和数学（LSAMP）的少数群体（LSAMP），并主要从研究组合（PUI）进行了研究，并主要认可了少数群体（PUI）。目的是提供高质量的本科研究经验，激励学生和教职员工取得最高的学习成绩，并为科学研究和发现做好准备。核心思想是建立有意义的，全年和长期的研究合作，这是由学术生产力和卓越本科培训的需求所驱动的。该模型被设想为延续自身，在此期间，投资合作最终会成熟到独立资金，并被主持人机构与其他参与者之间的新伙伴关系所取代。假设是，强大的财务和基础架构支持研究合作将使HBCU，LSAMP和PUI教师直接影响学生，并在他们的家中，他们将在他们的家中影响他们的家园，并在他们的家中影响他们的家园。 Duquesne教职员工将培训学生，并从研究扩展中获得无可估量的收获。 REU学生将拥有有意义的新型化学研究经验，具有广泛的科学主题，例如纳米技术，国土安全性，药物设计，法医学和化学生物学。每个学生将直接与实验室（家庭机构和Duquesne）的两名教师指导者合作，并与Duquesne的理论教师联络咨询，因为每个REU项目都由定义明确的计算成分补充，以扩大学生的经验。 Duquesne拥有非凡的资源，由NSF资助的设施，建立的分子建模研究计划，以及在学生安置和良好合作伙伴关系方面的可靠记录。学生将接受培训，以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。这些活动计划通过利用有意义的研究经验来吸引和保留美国多样化的学生人才库来支持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的劳动力。