REU Site: Combining Career Preparation with Environmental Research in Chemistry, Physics and Materials Science at the University of Oregon

这一奖项来自国家科学基金会化学部(CHE)，支持俄勒冈大学杰拉尔丁·里士满教授领导的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。这项面向化学和物理专业本科生的研究体验课程将前沿的跨学科研究体验与职业发展和指导活动结合在一起，为本科生参与者提供了强大的研究体验。这些经验还包括专业技能培训工作坊，以帮助学生在下一阶段的教育和/或第一次充分就业机会中获得未来的职业成功。REU项目自1987年以来一直由国家科学基金会资助，REU学生继续深造的成功率为90%，其中60%以上为女性，URM群体占近40%。在夏季的几个月里，每年有10名学生被选中参加这个项目，他们将主要来自没有资源提供本科体验的本科院校。参与这一跨学科REU项目的教师来自化学、物理和材料科学领域，使学生能够跨越传统的学术界限，并为他们提供了其他项目中不常见的优势。这些项目是经过精心挑选的，以符合学生的兴趣。这些项目的例子包括：使用环境友好的有机和无机合成方法，通过有机/无机合成方法开发“更环保”的材料；太阳能材料的制备和表征；在油水界面组装化学分散剂的研究；通过超分子化学研究有毒金属的修复；以及计算机模拟方法的基础知识。该项目的更广泛影响是，它将增加许多来自代表性不足群体和以本科生为主的机构的理科本科生的数量和潜在的职业成功，让他们有机会进行实践研究，学习使用最先进的仪器，并接触研究型大学的研究。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site led by Professor Geraldine Richmond at the University of Oregon. This Research Experience for Undergraduates in Chemistry and Physics program combines a cutting edge interdisciplinary research experience with career building and mentoring activities that provide a robust research experience for the undergraduate participants. The experience will also involve professional skills training workshops to help the students in future career success in the next stage of their education, and/or their first full employment opportunity. This REU Program has been continually funded by the National Science Foundation since 1987 and has a 90% success rate of REU students going on to graduate school, over 60% have been women, URM groups comprise almost 40%. The 10 students per year selected for participation in this program over the summer months will be primarily from undergraduate institutions that do not have the resources to provide an undergraduate experience. The faculty involved with this interdisciplinary REU program come from chemistry, physics and materials science fields, allowing students to cross the traditional academic boundaries and giving them an advantage that is not often found in other programs. The projects are carefully selected to match with the students' interests. Examples of the projects include using environmentally friendly organic and inorganic synthetic methods to develop "greener" materials through organic/inorganic synthetic methods, the preparation and characterization of solar energy materials, the study of the assembly of chemical dispersants at oil-water interfaces, the examination of toxic metal remediation through supramolecular chemistry and the basics of computer modeling methods. The broader impact of this project is that it will increase the numbers and potential career success of many science undergraduate students from underrepresented groups and those from predominately undergraduate institutions by giving them the opportunity to do hands-on research, to learn to use state-of-the-art instrumentation and exposure to research at a research university.