i-REU: The US/France Exchange Program in Chemistry: Forming Global Scientists for the 21st Century

佛罗里达大学的Valeria Kleiman、Adrian Roitberg教授及其同事主持了美法本科生化学研究经验交流。该网站由化学部门的REU网站计划和国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。该网站促进科学进步，支持美国本科生的国际教育。交换的重点是为每位学生提供在法国实验室进行的有意义的国际化学暑期研究项目。为了创造一支多元化和具有文化意识的STEM工作队伍，科学的国际化是必不可少的。那些参与国际科学的人受益于更高的知名度、资金和职业发展，而那些参与全球研究环境的人则学会了跳出固有思维模式。此外，在这些改变人生的经历中，学生成为世界公民，并学会与不同背景的科学家互动，这些科学家在化学方面教授和指导他们。为了补充研究环境，该计划的智力价值通过队列活动得到增强，学生学习传播他们的发现并成为全球科学家。这个项目作为一个真正的交流，来自法国的学生也来美国在项目期间进行研究。在法国的三个地点（巴黎、图卢兹和斯特拉斯堡），参与者被分配为两人或更多的小组。系统会根据用户以往的经验为他们匹配可用的主机组。研究课题涵盖化学领域的广泛领域，包括自下而上的结构和材料的图案；超分子体系的设计、合成和表征；无机、有机和生物固体材料的表征；n -酰基同丝氨酸内酯对上皮细胞抗炎作用的研究；复合纳米颗粒的可控合成；以及在均相或多相催化中有潜在应用的分子的制备。

Professors Valeria Kleiman, Adrian Roitberg, and colleagues at the University of Florida host the United States/France exchange for undergraduate research experiences in chemistry. This site is cofunded by the REU Sites Program of the Division of Chemistry and the Office of International Science and Engineering. The site promotes the progress of science supporting the international education of undergraduate students from the US. The emphasis of the exchange is to provide each student with a meaningful international summer research project in Chemistry in French laboratories. Internationalization of science is an imperative in order to create a diverse and culturally-aware STEM work-force. Those participating in international science benefit from increased visibility, funding and career advances and those participating in a global research environment learn to think outside the box. In addition, these are life-changing experiences where students become global citizens and learn to interact with scientists with different backgrounds who teach and mentor them in chemistry. To complement the research environment, the intellectual value of the program is enhanced by the cohort activities where students learn to disseminate their discoveries and become global scientists. This program acts as a true exchange, where students from France also come to the US to perform research during the time of the program. Participants are assigned in groups of two or more at each of the three French sites (Paris, Toulouse and Strasbourg). They are matched with available host groups according to their previous experience. Research topics cover broad areas of the chemistry field and include the bottom up structuring and patterning of materials; the design, synthesis, and characterization of supramolecular systems; the characterization of inorganic, organic, and biological solid materials; studies of the anti-inflammatory effects of N-acyl-homoserine lactones on epithelial cells; the controlled synthesis of complex nanoparticles; and the preparation of molecules with potential applications in homogeneous or heterogeneous catalysis.