REU Site: Give Research Opportunity to Underrepresented Minority STEM Students (GRO URMSS)

该项目由化学学部资助，支持本科生研究经验（REU）网站，旨在为来自美国两年制学院的有才华的少数族裔（URM）学生提供实践研究机会，这些学生的研究机会有限。该项目是在夏季将两年制大学生带到威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校，为期十周，与化学系、生物系和材料科学系的教师一起进行研究项目。该计划旨在透过实践研究，丰富和强化港大学生的学习，培养学生对STEM领域的兴趣和能力，并使他们能够从两年制大学过渡到四年制大学，从而增加他们的专业机会。该项目将增加在威斯康星大学欧克莱尔分校进行研究的URM本科生的数量。研究环境的多样性增加反过来将加强化学，材料科学和生物学的课程。学生将获得使用现代仪器的实践研究经验，并沉浸在四年制大学以学生为中心的研究环境中。学生的科研项目包括新的环状粘蛋白肽的合成和新的“智能”联苯和三苯衍生物的合成，可逆自组装“智能”共聚物的开发，超导线的微结构研究以及腈- IV族路易斯酸配合物的研究。其他需要研究的课题包括醌还原酶的电子和氢化物转移机制，Pro-tRNA合成酶内的远程分子通信和动力学，新型金属-马塔诺丁纳米颗粒的合成和性能研究，以及密歇根湖及其沿岸大气臭氧和CO的分布。

This project funded by the Chemistry Division supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) site at that is designed to provide hands-on research opportunities to talented underrepresented minority (URM) students from two-year colleges throughout the United States where research opportunities are limited. The project is to bring in two-year college students to the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire during the summer for ten weeks to work on research projects with faculty in the departments of Chemistry, Biology and Materials Science. The project aims to enrich and empower URM students' learning through hands-on research, develops students' interest and competence in the STEM fields, and enables them to bridge from two-year colleges to four-year colleges, thereby enhancing their professional opportunities. This project will increase the number of URM undergraduate students conducting research at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. This increased diversity in the research environment in turn will strengthen the programs in Chemistry, Materials Science and Biology. Students will gain practical, hands-on research experience using modern instrumentation, and become immersed in a student-centered research environment at a four year institution.The scientific research projects that students are to work on include synthesis of new cyclic mucin peptides and of new "smart" biphenyl and terphenyl derivatives, development of reversible self-assembled "smart" copolymers, the study of microstructures of superconducting wires and the study of nitrile-Group IV Lewis acids complexes. Other topics to be investigated include electron and hydride transfer mechanisms of quinone reductases, long range molecular communication and dynamics within the Pro-tRNA synthetases, the synthesis and study of the properties of new metal-mathanobactin nanoparticles and, finally, the distribution of atmospheric ozone and CO over and along Lake Michigan,