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REU Site: Integrated Experimental and Computational REU Site at Northern Illinois University

REU 站点：北伊利诺伊大学综合实验和计算 REU 站点

基本信息

批准号：
1659548
负责人：
Ralph Wheeler
金额：
$ 27.5万
依托单位：
Northern Illinois University
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
Standard Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2017-03-01 至 2020-02-29
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659548&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
REU Site Integrated Experimental Computational

项目摘要

Professors Ralph Wheeler, James Horn, and colleagues at Northern Illinois University host the REU Site: Integrated Experimental and Computational REU Site at Northern Illinois University. Funded by the Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) Sites Program of the Division of Chemistry, the site provides a diverse group of eight STEM undergraduates each year with authentic, meaningful, ten-week, summer research experiences in chemistry and/or biochemistry. Northern Illinois University's (NIU's) model of undergraduate research builds research teams where students and student-faculty pairs are recruited from Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMPs), and Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs) with limited research opportunities. Each REU project is supplemented with computational components to expand the students' experience. REU students have research experiences within broad scientific themes such as nanotechnology, homeland security, drug design, energy research, and chemical biology. Students are trained in instrumentation to build new skills to complement their experimental research. In addition, three of the eight students each year work with two faculty mentors in the laboratory (home institution and NIU) and consult with a computational faculty liaison from NIU. The program tests the hypothesis that strong financial and infrastructure support of research collaborations invigorate faculty from PUIs who in turn, directly impact students and learning environments at their home institutions. The program aims to establish meaningful, year round, long-term research collaborations. The model is envisioned to be self-perpetuating because the collaborations ultimately mature to independent funding, and are replaced by new collaborations between the host institution and new participants. The activities support the intent of the REU program to use meaningful research experiences to attract and retain the nation's diverse student talent pool. The program enhances and diversifies the US workforce by adding experts in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry.

北伊利诺伊大学的拉尔夫·惠勒教授、詹姆斯·霍恩教授及其同事主持了REU网站：北伊利诺伊大学综合实验和计算REU网站。该网站由化学系本科生研究经验（REU）站点计划资助，每年为8名STEM本科生提供真实的，有意义的，为期10周的化学和/或生物化学暑期研究经验。北伊利诺伊大学（NIU）的本科研究模式建立了研究团队，学生和学生-教师对从传统黑人学院和大学（HBCUs），路易斯斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMPs）和主要本科机构（PUIs）招募，研究机会有限。每个REU项目都辅以计算组件，以扩大学生的经验。REU的学生在纳米技术、国土安全、药物设计、能源研究和化学生物学等广泛的科学主题方面有研究经验。学生接受仪器方面的培训，以建立新的技能，以补充他们的实验研究。此外，八名学生中的三名每年在实验室（家庭机构和NIU）与两名教师导师一起工作，并与NIU的计算学院联络人进行咨询。该项目验证了这样一种假设，即对研究合作的强大财政和基础设施支持能够激励来自公共投资大学的教师，而这些教师反过来又直接影响到他们所在机构的学生和学习环境。该项目旨在建立有意义的、全年的、长期的研究合作。该模式被设想为自我延续，因为合作最终成熟为独立资助，并被主办机构和新参与者之间的新合作所取代。这些活动支持REU计划的意图，即利用有意义的研究经验来吸引和留住国家多样化的学生人才库。该计划通过增加化学和生物化学领域的专家来增强和多样化美国劳动力。