REU Site: Interdisciplinary Working Group for Chemical Analysis in Low-Resource Settings

这一奖项来自国家科学基金会化学部(CHE)，支持由圣母大学Marya Lieberman和Toni L.Barstis教授领导的本科生研究体验(REU)网站。该REU网站及其配套的教师研究计划将培训主要本科生机构(PUI)的学生和教师设计、开发和测试新的分析方法和仪器，以便在资源不足的情况下使用。它将为早期就业的学生提供一个机会，利用他们的科学或工程知识和技能来帮助世界上最贫穷国家的人们。这些项目将针对不同的目标，如识别低质量药品、诊断人类和动物疾病、检测环境污染或食品掺假，以及发现和管理细菌耐药性。这一经历将使参与者能够利用他们的科学知识和技能来解决实际问题，并将扩大他们作为全球公民和变革推动者的视野。REU网站的目标是将化学分析从实验室带到世界各地，特别是在资源有限的地方。学生将学习诊断工具和技术、便携式仪器、样本采集/分析方法或远程成像或监测的新想法，他们还将学习发达国家和发展中国家技术基础设施的差异。该网站的知识重点是开发和测试更好(更便宜、更快、更实用)的方法来执行与发展中国家问题相关的化学分析。学生将学习诊断工具和技术、便携式仪器和样本采集/分析方法。目标分析物可以是生物的(疾病标志物、病原体)或化学的(假药、环境污染物、食用油中的有机磷)。开发在受控实验室环境之外可靠工作的分析方法和仪器，对学生来说，既是一个挑战，也是一个机会，让他们在构建仪器、设计实验和严格分析数据方面应用他们的萌芽技能。

This award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site led by Professors Marya Lieberman and Toni L. Barstis at the University of Notre Dame. This REU site and its companion faculty research program will train students and faculty from primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) to design, develop, and test novel analytical methods and instruments for use in low resource settings. It will give early career students a chance to use their science or engineering knowledge and skills to help people in the poorest nations of the world. The projects will be aimed at different goals such as to identify low quality pharmaceuticals, diagnose human and animal diseases, detect environmental contamination or food adulteration, and discover and manage bacterial drug resistance. The experience will empower the participants to use their science knowledge and skills to solve real problems, and it will enlarge their view of themselves as global citizens and agents of change. The objective of this REU site is to bring chemical analysis out of the lab and into the world, particularly in resource-limited locations. Students will study diagnostic tools and technology, portable instruments, sample-collection/analysis methods, or new ideas for remote imaging or monitoring, and they will also learn about the differences between technological infrastructure in developed and developing countries. The intellectual focus of the site is developing and testing better (cheaper, faster, more practical) ways to perform chemical analyses that are relevant to problems in developing countries. Students will study diagnostic tools & technology, portable instruments and sample-collection/analysis methods. The target analytes may be biological (disease markers, pathogens) or chemical (falsified drugs, environmental contaminants, organophosphates in the cooking oil). To develop analytical methodology and instruments that work reliably outside a controlled lab setting is a both a challenge and an opportunity for students to apply their budding skills in building instruments, designing experiments and rigorously analyzing data.