REU Site: Sensing, Monitoring, and Detection - From Molecules to Applications

佛罗里达国际大学（FIU）化学与生物化学系的Kavallieratos和Miksovska教授及其同事主持了一个本科生研究经验（REU）网站，该网站支持9名学生在为期10周的夏季研究会议中进行研究项目。化学传感是连接这一群体的跨学科主题。学生们在以团队为导向的暑期项目中受到指导，参加研讨会和讲习班，在FIU校园内广泛参加的场所展示他们的科学团队内外的工作，并鼓励他们从事研究和发现方面的职业。通过受各种传感器相关项目影响的广泛应用，科学地解决了更广泛的影响。此外，还非常强调从代表性不足的群体中招收相当比例的妇女和学生。与少数族裔服务机构和路易斯·斯托克斯少数族裔参与联盟（LSAMP）的两个项目建立了伙伴关系，以实现招聘目标。该REU网站专注于化学传感，将前沿研究兴趣与广泛的现实应用相结合。在传感的跨学科领域，学生参与的项目涉及分析/环境、生物、无机、有机、物理/理论、核/放射化学和法医化学。夏季项目的目的是给学生的灵活性和主动性，并激发与成为独立研究者的愿景开始研究人员。作为南佛罗里达州主要的公立研究型大学，佛罗里达国际大学吸引、留住并毕业了大量的少数民族学生。REU网站预计将扩大FIU的机会，为FIU以外的代表性不足的学生提供机会，这些学生就读的大学几乎没有研究基础设施。

Professors Kavallieratos and Miksovska and colleagues in the Chemistry & Biochemistry Department at Florida International University (FIU) host a Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) site that supports research projects for nine students during a 10-week summer research session. Chemical sensing is the interdisciplinary theme that links this cohort. Students are mentored in team-oriented summer projects, participate in seminars and workshops, present their work within and outside their scientific teams in widely-attended venues at the FIU campus, and are encouraged to pursue a career in research and discovery. The broader impacts are addressed scientifically through the wide range of applications that are impacted by the various sensor-related projects. In addition, there is a strong emphasis on the recruitment of significant percentages of women and students from underrepresented groups. Partnerships with minority serving institutions and two Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP) programs are in place to meet the recruitment goals. This REU sites focus on chemical sensing combines cutting-edge research interests with wide, real-life applicability. Within the interdisciplinary area of sensing, the students participate in projects across analytical/environmental, biological, inorganic, organic, physical/theoretical, nuclear/radiochemistry, and forensic chemistry. The summer projects are designed to give the students flexibility and initiative, and to excite beginning researchers with the vision of becoming independent investigators. As the major public research university in South Florida, FIU attracts, retains, and graduates large numbers of students from minority groups. The REU site is expected to expand the opportunities available at FIU to underrepresented students outside FIU who attend colleges with little research infrastructure.