REU Site: Research Experience for Undergraduates at the Interface of Computations and Experiments at the Department of Chemistry at North Carolina State University

REU 网站：北卡罗来纳州立大学化学系计算与实验界面本科生研究经验

• 批准号: 1359377
• 负责人: Elon Ison
• 金额: $ 22.89万
• 依托单位: North Carolina State University
• 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: 2014-08-15 至 2018-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1359377&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Research; Experience; Undergraduates

This award, supported by the Division of Chemistry (CHE) at the National Science Foundation supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Site at North Carolina State University (NCSU), led by Professors Elon A. Ison and Elena Jakubikova. Professors Ison and Jakubikova will execute a series of recruiting strategies to recruit students from underrepresented groups, women, and first generation college students primarily from the Southeast and Middle Atlantic region, and from the University of Puerto Rico system. These students will be exposed to career opportunities in non-academic settings in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area, participate in social and professional activities provided on campus to encourage student interactions with other undergraduate and REU programs at NCSU. They will provide training for local middle and high school teachers from the Lee County system in the basics of computational chemistry so that they can develop curricula and implement computational methods early in the academic training of students. Thus the combined impact of this proposed REU site is the increased training and development of students in STEM fields from middle school through college.The focus of the NSF funded REU site at NCSU is to expose sophomore and junior students from primarily undergraduate institutions (PUIs) and from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) to one of many possible independent research topics that combine experimental techniques and computational methods in an academic setting. During their 10-week training, the students will learn practical laboratory skills, and acquire the basics of computational methodologies through a series of practical lectures in the recently upgraded computational facilities. Major goals are to enable students to make informed career and graduate or professional school choices and to allow the students to be better prepared to achieve a high level of success in their chosen career pathways. As such, on-site visits to leading chemical companies and government laboratories in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) will be organized.

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会化学系（CHE）支持北卡罗莱纳州立大学（NCSU）本科生研究经验（REU）站点，由Elon a. Ison和Elena Jakubikova教授领导。Ison教授和Jakubikova教授将执行一系列招聘策略，从代表性不足的群体、女性、主要来自东南和中大西洋地区以及波多黎各大学系统的第一代大学生中招募学生。这些学生将在三角研究园（RTP）地区的非学术环境中获得就业机会，参加校园内提供的社会和专业活动，以鼓励学生与NCSU其他本科和REU项目进行互动。他们将为李郡系统的当地初中和高中教师提供计算化学基础知识的培训，以便他们能够在学生的学术培训中尽早制定课程并实施计算方法。因此，这个拟议的REU站点的综合影响是增加了从中学到大学STEM领域学生的培训和发展。美国国家科学基金会在NCSU资助的REU网站的重点是让来自主要本科院校（PUIs）和历史上的黑人学院和大学（HBCUs）的大二和大三学生接触到许多可能的独立研究课题之一，这些课题将实验技术和计算方法结合在学术环境中。在为期10周的训练中，学生将在最近升级的计算设施中，通过一系列的实践讲座，学习实用的实验室技能，并掌握基本的计算方法。主要目标是使学生能够做出明智的职业和研究生或专业学校的选择，并让学生更好地准备在他们选择的职业道路上取得高水平的成功。因此，将组织对三角研究园区（RTP）的主要化学公司和政府实验室的现场参观。