REU Site: Chemistry Connections for Community College Students at the University of California, San Diego

该国家科学基金会奖由化学系（CHE）支持由加州大学圣地亚哥分校化学和生物化学系的Haim Weizman和Stacey Brydges教授领导的本科生研究经验（REU）网站。“4Cs @ UCSD”项目为10名一年级（或同等学历）学生提供在加州大学圣地亚哥分校通勤距离内的两年制学院（2YCs）的广泛网络中进行化学科学，材料合成，人类健康和疾病，能源和环境科学前沿的密集和综合本科早期研究经验。学徒制为期一年，在春季开始介绍研究方法，然后在夏季的10周和秋季学期的10周（结束）期间全面积极地沉浸在研究实验室中，并通过丰富活动提供支持，包括研究研讨会，工业实地考察，学术和专业技能研讨会，以及随后春季在加州大学圣地亚哥分校化学本科生研究研讨会上的最后演讲。经过正式培训的导师团队由2YC/加州大学圣地亚哥分校的教师和研究生榜样组成，在该计划的各个阶段为REU研究员提供支持。总的来说，这个REU网站的目的是：(1)扩大代表性不足的群体对本科研究的参与；(2)使社区大学学生能够成功地从副学士学位过渡到化学科学的学士学位和研究生课程；(3)让研究生、博士后和教师参与到一个指导过程中，从而导致更有效、更包容的研究培训和实践；(4)扩大对关键学术资源（人员、设施和项目）的获取，从而为所有相关机构的研究和教育之间的真正合作和课程创新提供机会。总的来说，这些举措将有助于科学管道的增长、化学研究和教育改革的进展，以及实现招募和留住更多样化的科学劳动力的国家目标。

This National Science Foundation award from the Division of Chemistry (CHE) supports a Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) site led by Professors Haim Weizman and Stacey Brydges both at the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego. The "4Cs @ UCSD" program offers 10 first-year (or the equivalent) students attending the extensive network of two-year colleges (2YCs) within commuting distance of UC San Diego an intensive and integrated early undergraduate research experience in the chemical sciences, at the frontiers of materials synthesis, human health and disease, energy and environmental science. Apprenticeships span a year, with an introduction to research methods in the Spring prior to full and active immersion in a research laboratory during the 10-weeks of summer and 10-week(ends) of the Fall academic quarter, and are buttressed by enrichment activities that include research seminars, industrial field trips, academic and professional skills workshops, and final presentations at the Undergraduate Research Symposium in Chemistry at UC San Diego in the subsequent Spring. Formally trained mentorship teams comprising 2YC/UC San Diego faculty and graduate student role models support REU fellows at all stages of this program.Overall, it is intended that this REU site will serve to: (1) broaden the participation of underrepresented groups in undergraduate research; (2) enable the successful transition of community college students from associate degrees to baccalaureate and graduate programs in the chemical sciences; (3) engage graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and faculty in a mentoring process that leads to more effective and inclusive research training and practices; and, (4) expand access to key academic resources - people, facilities, and programs - and thus, opportunities for authentic collaborations and curricular innovations linking research and education at all institutions involved. Collectively, these initiatives will contribute to the growth of the science pipeline, the progress of chemical research and educational reform, and the achievement of national goals to recruit and retain a more diverse scientific workforce.