REU Site: Exploring the Chemistry of Energy Applications, Living Systems, and Supramolecular Assemblies (ExCELS)

REU 网站：探索能源应用、生命系统和超分子组装的化学 (ExCELS)

• 批准号: 1358959
• 负责人: Surita Bhatia
• 金额: $ 27万
• 依托单位: SUNY at Stony Brook
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2014
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2014-07-15 至 2018-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1358959&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Exploring; Chemistry; Energy

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site led by Professor Surita R. Bhatia at the State University of New York at Stony Brook (SBU). This REU site will host an REU Summer Program entitled Exploring the Chemistry of Energy Applications, Living Systems, and Supramolecular Assemblies (ExCELS). The ExCELS program is centered on three technical areas of strength at SBU; Energy, Living Systems, and Supramolecular Assemblies; while still being broad enough to attract students with diverse interests. Students will be trained in skills relevant to their research projects which may include organic synthesis, polymer synthesis, solid state synthesis, cell culture and sterile techniques, high resolution NMR, mass spectrometry, fluorescence microscopy, CD, and Raman spectroscopy. The program targets participation of female, minority, and deaf and hard-of-hearing students, including students from community colleges and non-PhD granting institutions where research opportunities are limited. Thus, it will broaden the diversity of the workforce in chemistry. The REU is based on the three research strengths at SBU so that students are exposed to a coherent intellectual theme within a cluster. Specific objectives of the ExCELS REU are to: (1) Encourage and motivate students to pursue graduate studies in chemistry, with a focus on recruitment of underrepresented populations, including deaf and hard-of-hearing students; (2) Train students to transition from dependent to independent researchers through a focus on mentoring and research seminars by faculty and graduate students; (3) Enable students to communicate science effectively through active participation in "cluster" meetings involving students and faculty from multiple research groups; and (4) Provide students with strategies for professional success through a Professional Development Seminar.

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会化学系（CHE）颁发，支持由纽约州立大学石溪分校（SBU）的Surita R. Bhatia教授领导的本科生研究经验（REU）网站。这个REU网站将举办一个REU暑期项目，题为探索能源应用，生命系统和超分子组装（ExCELS）的化学。excel项目集中在SBU的三个技术优势领域；能源、生命系统和超分子组装；同时又足够宽广，能吸引不同兴趣的学生。学生将接受与他们的研究项目相关的技能培训，包括有机合成、聚合物合成、固态合成、细胞培养和无菌技术、高分辨率核磁共振、质谱、荧光显微镜、CD和拉曼光谱。该项目的目标是女性、少数族裔、失聪和听力障碍学生的参与，包括来自社区学院和研究机会有限的非博士学位授予机构的学生。因此，它将扩大化学领域劳动力的多样性。REU以SBU的三大研究优势为基础，让学生在一个集群中接触到连贯的智力主题。ExCELS REU的具体目标是：(1)鼓励和激励学生攻读化学研究生课程，重点招收代表性不足的人群，包括耳聋和听力障碍学生；(2)通过教师和研究生的指导和研究研讨会，培养学生从依赖研究者到独立研究者的转变；(3)通过积极参与由来自多个研究小组的学生和教师参与的“集群”会议，使学生能够有效地交流科学；(4)通过专业发展研讨会为学生提供专业成功的策略。