REU Site: Biological, Green, and Materials Chemistry Research at Texas A&M University

该奖项由生物科学理事会化学部（CHE）和生物基础设施部（DBI）颁发，支持德克萨斯州A M大学本科生（REU）研究经验网站，由冬青盖德教授和詹姆斯·巴蒂斯教授领导。该网站支持的研究项目是在生物，绿色和材料化学领域。本科生主要从缺乏广泛基础设施来支持本科生研究的机构招募到这个网站，包括来自代表性不足的群体的学生。参与该网站研究的不同学生群体为研究生院做好了充分的准备，并最终成为该国技术劳动力的一部分。该网站每年夏天支持10名学生参加为期10周的课程。这些项目包括：（1）生物活性天然产物的合成;（2）从可再生资源中合成可生物降解的聚合物;（3）设计用于二氧化碳可逆吸附的金属-有机框架;（4）调节表面相互作用以控制摩擦和磨损;（5）利用可再生资源合成可生物降解的聚合物。（5）用于有机太阳能电池的共轭梯形聚合物的合成，和（6）无过渡金属催化剂的计算设计。接触研究中使用的现代研究方法和工具，扩大了本科参与者的技术培训。此外，学生们接触到科学领域与健康，能源，环境和材料的重要社会影响。除了在夏季进行研究外，参加该计划的学生还将参加一些专业发展活动，并将有更多的机会在国家学科会议上展示他们的研究。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) and the Division of Biological Infrastructure (DBI) in the Biological Sciences Directorate supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at Texas A&M University, led by Professors Holly Gaede and James Batteas. The research projects supported at this Site are in areas of biological, green, and materials chemistry. Undergraduates are recruited to this site primarily from institutions that lack extensive infrastructure to support undergraduate research, and include students from underrepresented groups. The diverse student cohort participating in research at this site is well-prepared for graduate school, and eventual employment as part of the country's technical workforce.The Site supports ten students per summer in a ten week program. A sample of the projects include: (1) the synthesis of bioactive natural products; (2) the synthesis of biodegradable polymers from renewable resources; (3) the design of metal-organic framework for the reversible adsorption of carbon dioxide; (4) the tuning of surface interactions for the control of friction and wear; (5) synthesis of conjugated ladder polymers for organic solar cells, and (6) the computational design of transition metal free catalysts. Exposure to the modern research methods and tools used in the research expands the undergraduate participants' technical training. In addition, the students are exposed to areas of science with important societal impacts in health, energy, environment, and materials. In addition to conducting research during the summer, the students participating in this program will participate in a number of professional development activities, and will have expanded opportunities for presentation of their research at national disciplinary meetings.