REU Site: Environmental/Green Chemistry

REU 网站：环境/绿色化学

• 批准号: 1461092
• 负责人: Douglas Raynie
• 金额: $ 38.43万
• 依托单位: South Dakota State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1461092&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Environmental; Green; Chemistry

This project funded by the REU Sites Program in the Chemistry Division and the Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) both at the National Science Foundation (NSF) supports a Research Experience for Undergraduates Site at South Dakota State University, led by Professor James A. Rice and colleagues. The site will support ten students during the ten week summer program that will focused on environmental and green materials chemistry and provide the students with multi-disciplinary research experiences. The goal is to provide cutting-edge research experiences, mentoring, and research-themed professional development to increase the students' preparedness to pursue graduate school or environmental/green chemistry careers. The Site will introduce students to environmental and green chemistry where they will learn about natural and industrial chemical processes that impact societal research needs. These range from understanding climate change to the fate and behavior of anthropogenic chemicals introduced into natural and biological systems, and to making new materials with a reduced reliance on harmful solvents.The REU site will recruit students from institutions with limited research opportunities with the primary emphasis on attracting students who attend tribal colleges, public and private (predominately undergraduate) institutions in South Dakota and western Minnesota. The Site will explore a distributive concept where the students will work in different locations (the host institution, Black Hills State University and Northern State University) and communicate using Access Grid, a high definition, internet-based communication system. An expected outcome will be to integrate undergraduate research into the chemistry curricula at the predominately undergraduate partner institutions as they work to achieve degree certification by the American Chemical Society.

该项目由化学部的REU Sites计划和国家科学基金会(NSF)的刺激竞争研究实验计划(EPSCoR)资助，支持由詹姆斯·A·赖斯教授及其同事领导的南达科他州立大学本科生研究体验网站。该网站将在为期十周的暑期项目中支持10名学生，该项目将侧重于环境和绿色材料化学，并为学生提供多学科的研究体验。其目标是提供尖端的研究经验、指导和以研究为主题的专业发展，以增强学生对研究生院或环境/绿色化学职业的准备。该网站将向学生介绍环境和绿色化学，在那里他们将学习影响社会研究需求的自然和工业化学过程。这些课程从了解气候变化到引入自然和生物系统的人为化学物质的命运和行为，到制造减少对有害溶剂的依赖的新材料。REU网站将从研究机会有限的机构招收学生，主要重点是吸引就读于南达科他州和明尼苏达州西部部落大学、公立和私立(主要是本科生)机构的学生。该网站将探索一种分布式概念，学生将在不同的地点(主办机构黑山州立大学和北方州立大学)工作，并使用Access Grid进行交流，Access Grid是一种基于互联网的高清通信系统。一个预期的结果将是将本科生研究纳入以本科生为主的合作机构的化学课程，因为它们正在努力获得美国化学学会的学位认证。