REU Site: Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program

在这个由化学系资助的项目中，密西西比大学（Ole Miss）将主持一个本科生研究经验（REU）网站，重点是物理化学。每年夏天，网站负责人将带10名学生到校园进行为期10周的原创研究，并参加迷你课程、研讨会和有组织的社交活动。这个REU网站将允许从其他机构招募的本科生作为一个队列参加奥莱密西西比大学物理化学暑期研究项目，这是一个已经建立的暑期项目，在促进奥莱密西西比大学物理和计算化学研究小组成员之间的沟通和合作方面有着良好的记录。这些学生将在成功的，资助的，和合作研究小组，并与密西西比大学的本科生、研究生、教职员工一起参加为期一个暑假的有组织的学术和社会活动。该项目将提高学生在化学研究、研究生课程和职业生涯中的参与度，特别是来自代表性不足的群体和没有研究机会的机构的参与度，并提高对高性能计算及其在化学中的适用性的认识。学生参与者在教职员工的实验室以及密西西比超级计算研究中心（MCSR）进行原创研究。12名高级人员将管理该计划，这些个人将指导学生进行原创性研究，讲授物理化学相关主题，管理迷你课程，并组织社会活动。以实验和理论物理化学为中心，研究项目包括光收集、光发射和催化材料的合成设计，表征新开发材料的光物理性质，开发压缩光激光器，重要生物相关相互作用的光谱研究和计算建模，以及具有重要能源或药物开发应用的新开发材料的计算建模。该课程的学生将获得物理科学的实践经验，同时将化学知识应用于现实世界的问题。

In this project funded by the Division of Chemistry, the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) will host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Site with a focus on physical chemistry. The site leaders will bring 10 students to campus for 10 weeks each summer to conduct original research and participate in mini-courses, seminars, and organized social events. This REU Site will allow undergraduates who are recruited from other institutions to participate as a cohort in the Ole Miss Physical Chemistry Summer Research Program, which is an established summer program that has a demonstrated track record for fostering communication and collaboration between the members of the physical and computational chemistry research groups at Ole Miss. These students will perform original research in successful, funded, and collaborating research groups and take part in a summer-long schedule of organized academic and social activities with Ole Miss undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, and staff. This project will increase participation, especially from underrepresented groups and institutions without research opportunities, of students in chemistry research, graduate programs, and careers, as well as increase literacy in high performance computing and its applicability to chemistry. Student participants perform original research in the laboratories of faculty members and also at the Mississippi Center for Supercomputing Research (MCSR). Twelve senior personnel will administer the program and these individuals will mentor students in original research, present lectures on physical chemistry-related topics, administer mini-courses, and organize social activities. Centered around experimental and theoretical physical chemistry, the research projects include synthetic design of light-harvesting, photoemissive, and catalytic materials, characterizing the photophysical properties of newly-developed materials, developing squeezed light lasers, the spectroscopic study and computational modeling of important biologically relevant interactions, and the computational modeling of newly-developed materials with important energy or drug development applications. Students in the program gain practical experience in the physical sciences while applying knowledge in chemistry to real world problems.