REU Site: Bio and Soft Matter Research Training (B-SMaRT)

电话：0531 - 8888888传真：0531 - 8888888 PI：Ross，Jennifer ORG：马萨诸塞大学阿默斯特分校标题：REU网站：生物和软物质研究培训（B-SMaRT）技术总结这10周的本科生研究经验（REU）的科学主题是软和生物材料。 与斯普林菲尔德技术社区学院（STCC）合作，马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学（UMass）将在软材料和生物材料的实验和理论方面对本科生进行培训。 这些材料构成了我们周围世界的大部分，从塑料片和人类皮肤到雪堆和细胞，它们都居住在类似的能量尺度上，同时存在于从纳米级到宏观级的范围内。 这个REU的目标是：（1）招收更多的学生从STCC到麻省大学转移到物理。 (2)通过早期接触研究，招募和增加从STCC到麻省大学STEM专业的学生人数不足的保留率。 (3)鼓励和激励学生继续软物质和生物物理学的研究生学习。 (4)培养学生成为独立的研究人员，他们将在合作研究中茁壮成长，并擅长将实验与理论联系起来。 (5)培养学生的科学沟通能力，重点是物理学和生命科学之间的跨学科交流。 (6)通过专业发展研讨会为学生提供职业成功的战略，包括职业道路，道德，工作场所的多样性，确定导师，跨学科沟通，团队建设和学院关系的发展。 学生将通过科学研究，实验方法，理论和计算方法的特定训练营定向。 科学和专业发展讲习班将在整个夏季举行，以教育和培训学生的科学推理和解决问题的技能，并给予他们宝贵的社交技能，如沟通和表达技能。 该计划将评估科学和社会技能的学习收益之前和之后的10周的会议，也将评估学生对科学，物理，和软和生物材料科学的态度。非技术性总结马萨诸塞州阿默斯特大学与斯普林菲尔德技术社区学院一起主办生物和软物质研究培训（B-SMaRT）REU网站。 生物和软材料就在我们身边。 往窗外看，你可能会看到雪或沙子堆积起来。 看看你的咖啡杯，你会看到咖啡渍。 看看你的皮肤，你会看到它弹性皱纹和变形，因为你的肌肉运动。 虽然这些例子可能看起来不重要，因为它们是日常发生的，但这些系统的机械和动力学性质仍然没有在基本层面上得到理解。 了解看似平凡的系统让我们了解了基本而重要的问题，如如何防止筒仓死亡，如何清理石油泄漏，如何在微尺度上制造自折叠机器人，以及如何对抗疾病。 该计划将奋进通过这些有趣的，但日常世界的物理问题，让学生参与物理学的基本方面。 此外，由于这些问题的可访问性，学生可以接触到软材料和生物材料的真实研究经验，并学习实验和理论技术。

ID: 1359191 PI: Ross, Jennifer ORG: University of Massachusetts-AmherstTitle: REU Site: Bio and Soft Matter Research Training (B-SMaRT)TECHNICAL SUMMARYThe scientific theme of this 10 week Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) is Soft and Biological Materials. Teaming up with Springfield Technical Community College (STCC), the University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass) will train undergraduates in both experimental and theoretical aspects of soft and biological materials. Such materials make up most of the world around us from plastic sheets and our human skin to snow piles and cells all inhabiting similar energy scales while existing from the nanoscale to the macroscopic. The objectives of this REU are to: (1) Recruit more students from STCC to UMass for transfer into Physics. (2) Recruit and increase retention of under-represented populations of students from STCC to UMass in STEM majors through early exposure to research. (3) Inspire and motivate students to pursue graduate studies in soft matter and biological physics. (4) Train students to become independent researchers who will thrive in collaborative research and excel in connecting experiment to theory. (5) Train students in scientific communication skills, with a focus on interdisciplinary communication between physics and the life sciences. (6) Provide students with strategies for professional success through a Professional Development Seminar covering career paths, ethics, diversity in the workplace, identifying mentors, interdisciplinary communication, team-building, and development of collegial relationships. Students will be oriented through specific bootcamps in scientific research, experimental methods, and theoretical and computational methods. Scientific and professional development workshops will be held through the summer to educate and train students in scientific reasoning and problem solving skills and give them valuable social skills such as communication and presentation skills. The program will assess learning gains for scientific and social skills before and after the 10 week session and will also evaluate the students' attitudes towards science, physics, and soft and biological materials science.NON-TECHNICAL SUMMARY The University of Massachusetts Amherst together with Springfield Technical Community College is hosting the Biological and Soft Matter Research Traineeships (B-SMaRT) REU Site. Biological and soft materials are all around us. Look out your window and you may see snow or sand piling up. Look at your coffee cup and you will see coffee stains. Look at your skin and you will see it elastically wrinkle and deform as your muscles move. Although these examples may seem unimportant because they are everyday occurrences, the mechanical and dynamical properties of these systems are still not understood at fundamental levels. Understanding seemingly mundane systems opens us to understanding of fundamental and important questions about how to prevent grain silo deaths, how to clean up oil spills, how to make self-folding robots on the microscale, and how to fight diseases. The program will endeavor to engage students in the fundamental aspects of physics through these interesting, yet accessible physical problems of the everyday world. Furthermore, due to the accessible nature of these problems, students can be exposed to true research experiences in soft and biological materials and learn techniques of both experiment and theory.