REU Site: An REU Site in Interdisciplinary Chemistry at Oklahoma State University

REU 站点：俄克拉荷马州立大学跨学科化学 REU 站点

• 批准号: 1559874
• 负责人: Smita Mohanty
• 金额: $ 29.1万
• 依托单位: Oklahoma State University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-15 至 2019-04-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1559874&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Interdisciplinary; Chemistry; Oklahoma

Professors White, Mohanty, and colleagues in the Chemistry Department at Oklahoma State University host an Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site. This project is 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) to support 12 students for 10 weeks in each of the three grant years. This REU site exposes early career stage undergraduates to interdisciplinary research in modern chemical sciences, including advanced materials, chemical sensors, nanochemistry, and chemical biology. Broader impacts of this work include the exposure of all REU participants to industrial and government scientists, emphasizing broadened perspectives on chemistry careers, increasing exposure of students from underrepresented groups to the chemical sciences, and actively involving REU participants in the larger research landscape of a comprehensive doctoral research university. Oklahoma has one of the highest Native American populations in the country and specific relationships with faculty at four-year undergraduate institutions are in place to help facilitate their recruitment. Nineteen active research groups host students at the Oklahoma State University REU Site. Examples of specific projects include investigations to promote understanding of how polymer chain organization influences the useful material properties of macromolecules, NMR studies of the effects of glycosylation on the structure, dynamics, and interactions of membrane proteins, and the development of earth-abundant transition metal complexes of N-heterocyclic carbenes. Other included projects range from synthetic methods development and drug synthesis to the development of organic semiconductors and electronic materials that can be used in organic electronics, sensors, and bioelectronics. Students recruited from the local area include Native Americans and students from primarily undergraduate schools.

怀特教授、莫汉蒂和俄克拉荷马州立大学化学系的同事们主持了一个本科生研究经历（REU）网站。该项目由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）化学部门的REU站点计划和刺激竞争性研究的实验计划（EPSCoR）资助，在三个资助年度中每年资助12名学生，为期10周。这个REU网站让职业生涯早期的本科生接触到现代化学科学的跨学科研究，包括先进材料、化学传感器、纳米化学和化学生物学。这项工作的更广泛影响包括让所有REU参与者接触到工业和政府科学家，强调拓宽化学职业的视角，增加来自代表性不足群体的学生接触化学科学，并积极让REU参与者参与到综合性博士研究型大学的更大研究景观中。俄克拉荷马州是美国原住民人口最多的州之一，与四年制本科院校的教师建立了特定的关系，以帮助他们招募。19个活跃的研究小组在俄克拉荷马州立大学REU网站接待学生。具体项目的例子包括促进对聚合物链组织如何影响大分子有用材料性质的理解的研究，糖基化对膜蛋白结构、动力学和相互作用的影响的核磁共振研究，以及地球上丰富的n -杂环碳烯过渡金属配合物的开发。其他项目包括从合成方法开发和药物合成到可用于有机电子、传感器和生物电子的有机半导体和电子材料的开发。从当地招收的学生包括印第安人和主要来自本科学校的学生。