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

该奖项由美国国家科学基金会(National Science Foundation)化学部(CHE)支持，支持由埃隆·A·伊森(Elon A.Ison)和埃琳娜·雅库比科娃(Elena Jakubikova)教授领导的北卡罗来纳州立大学(NCSU)本科生研究体验(REU)网站。伊森教授和雅库比科娃教授将执行一系列招生战略，从代表性不足的群体、女性和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收学生。这些学生将在研究三角园区(RTP)区域的非学术环境中获得就业机会，参加校园内提供的社交和专业活动，以鼓励学生与NCSU的其他本科生和REU项目互动。他们将为来自李县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早期制定课程和实施计算方法。因此，这个拟议的REU网站的综合影响是增加了从中学到大学在STEM领域的学生的培训和发展。NSF资助的NCSU网站的重点是让主要来自本科院校(PUI)和历史上的黑人学院和大学(HBCU)的大二和大三的学生接触到许多可能的独立研究课题之一，这些课题在学术环境中结合了实验技术和计算方法。在为期10周的培训中，学生将学习实验室实用技能，并通过最近升级的计算设施的一系列实践讲座学习计算方法的基础知识。主要目标是使学生能够在知情的情况下选择职业和毕业生或专业学校，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，将组织对研究三角园区(RTP)内领先的化学公司和政府实验室的实地访问。

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.