REU Site: Interactive Biomaterials

非技术部分：锡拉丘兹大学互动生物材料REU网站的教育目标是：(1)在多学科、协作和开放的实验室环境中，通过独立的生物材料研究项目培训学生前沿研究技术；(2)提供多方面的指导机会和网络建设经验，最终增加参与者在所选学科继续研究生教育的可能性；以及(3)培训学生成为他们的研究与同行和科学界有效的沟通者。这些目标将通过参与学院实验室的独立、互动的生物材料研究项目、教师顾问和研究生导师的一对一指导、创新的职业指导计划、与REU学生指导的互动实验室之旅、学生研究报告、团队建设活动和社交活动来实现。这个网站旨在让本科生参与有意义和有启发性的研究以及教育和社会经历，以此来提高他们的热情，并为未来在生物材料、科学和工程领域的研究生水平的学习和职业生涯做准备。与汉普顿路HBCU集群的伙伴关系将有助于扩大来自研究机会有限的机构的学生、女性和代表不足的少数族裔参与有意义的本科生研究。REU网站的一个标志性元素是职业指导倡议，重点放在博士水平的工业和学术职业道路上，强调STEM学科研究生教育的重要性和好处。REU网站的最佳实践将通过网络和教育出版物广泛传播，目的是为未来的REU网站制作复制模型。技术部分：REU网站上向学生提供的研究项目将促进以下领域的基础科学知识：形状记忆聚合物、刺激响应聚合物、药物输送、细菌生物膜的控制、细胞与生物材料的相互作用、金属生物材料的电化学、组织工程以及交互生物材料的分子建模。这些假设驱动的多学科研究项目利用了锡拉丘兹生物材料研究所教员的集体专业知识，在许多情况下，促进了教员实验室、学术部门和机构之间的协作研究。SITE团队非常有资格在他们的实验室指导本科生，并拥有大量的设施和设备可供他们使用，以培训这些学生进行尖端研究和分析技术。

NON-TECHNICAL PART: The educational objectives of the Interactive Biomaterials REU Site at Syracuse University are: (1) to train students in leading edge research techniques through independent biomaterials research projects in a multidisciplinary, collaborative, and open laboratory environment, (2) to provide multifaceted mentoring opportunities and network-building experiences that ultimately increase the likelihood that participants will pursue graduate education in their chosen discipline, and (3) to train students to be effective communicators of their research to their peers and the scientific community. These goals will be accomplished through participation in independent, interactive biomaterials research projects in faculty laboratories, one-on-one mentoring from faculty advisors and graduate student mentors, an innovative career mentoring program, interactive laboratory tours with REU student-led demonstrations, student research presentations, team building activities, and social events. This site aims to engage undergraduate students in meaningful and stimulating research and educational and social experiences as a means of increasing their enthusiasm and preparation for future graduate level study and careers in biomaterials science and engineering. A partnership with the Hampton Roads HBCU Cluster will help to broaden the participation of students from institutions with limited research opportunities, women, and underrepresented minorities in meaningful undergraduate research. A signature element of the REU site is a career mentoring initiative, focused on both industrial and academic career paths at the PhD level, which emphasizes the importance and benefits of graduate education in STEM disciplines. The best practices of this REU site will be broadly disseminated via the web and educational publications, with an aim to produce models for replication at future REU sites.TECHNICAL PART: The research projects available to students in the REU site will advance fundamental scientific knowledge in areas that include shape memory polymers, stimulus-responsive polymers, drug delivery, control of bacterial biofilms, cell-biomaterial interactions, electrochemistry of metallic biomaterials, tissue engineering, and molecular modeling of interactive biomaterials. These hypothesis-driven, multidisciplinary research projects draw upon the collective expertise of the faculty of the Syracuse Biomaterials Institute, and, in many cases, foster collaborative research across faculty laboratories, academic departments, and institutions. The site team is highly qualified to mentor undergraduate students in their laboratories and has a vast array of facilities and equipment at their disposal for training these students in cutting edge research and analytical techniques.