REU Site: Discovery by Computation, Theory and Experiment

REU 站点：通过计算、理论和实验发现

基本信息

批准号：
1659823
负责人：
Jeffrey Evanseck
金额：
$ 30.38万
依托单位：
Duquesne 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：
2017-05-01 至 2020-04-30
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1659823&HistoricalAwards=false
关键词：
REU Site Discovery Computation Theory

项目摘要

Professors Jeffrey Evanseck, Jeffry Madura, and colleagues of Duquesne University host an REU site supported by the REU Sites Program of the NSF Division of Chemistry. This site impacts the professional chemistry careers and education of undergraduates and faculty from institutions with limited research infrastructure as well as those from underrepresented populations. This is achieved through establishment of meaningful, year-round, and long-term research collaborations driven by the need for academic productivity and excellence in undergraduate training. The model builds research teams of student-faculty pairs recruited from Primarily Undergraduate Institutions (PUIs), Historically Black Colleges (HBCs) and the Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) institutions. These collaborators are integrated with extramurally funded research groups from Duquesne. The model is proven to perpetuate itself, where invested collaborations ultimately mature to independent funding. The broader impacts of this work include meaningful research experiences to attract and retain the nation's diverse student talent pool. This will have the consequence of enhancing and diversifying the U.S. workforce by adding experts in the fields of chemistry and biochemistry. This project focuses on strong financial and infrastructure support of research collaborations that invigorate faculty from PUIs, HBCs, and LSAMP institutions. These faculty in turn directly impact students and learning environments at their home institutions. REU students have novel chemical research experiences in exciting and broad scientific themes, such as nanotechnology, homeland security, pharmaceutical drug design, forensic sciences, and chemical biology. Each student works directly with two faculty mentors in the laboratory (from the home institution and Duquesne). Students also consult with a theoretical faculty liaison, since each REU project is supplemented by well-defined computational components to expand the students' experience. REU students receive explicit training to reinforce the scientific method, scientific writing and speaking, ethics, safety, and workshops on state-of-the-art instrumentation to complement their experimental research and build invaluable skill sets. Each student has the opportunity to present their research locally, regionally, and nationally to expand their professional exposure and networking to make more informed career decisions and best prepare for graduate school.

杰弗里·埃文斯（Jeffrey Evanseck），杰弗里·马杜拉（Jeffry Madura）和杜肯大学（Duquesne University）的同事主持了一个REU网站，该网站由NSF化学部的REU站点计划提供支持。该网站影响了研究基础设施有限的机构以及人口不足的机构的本科生和教职员工的专业化学职业和教育。这是通过建立有意义的，全年和长期的研究合作来实现的，这是由学术生产力和卓越本科培训的需求所驱动的。该模型建立了从主要是本科机构（PUI），历史上黑人学院（HBC）和路易斯·斯托克斯联盟（Louis Stokes）联盟（LSAMP）机构招募的学生教师的研究团队。这些合作者与Duquesne的外部资助研究小组集成在一起。该模型被证明可以使自己永久化，在这种情况下，投资合作最终会成熟到独立资金。这项工作的更广泛影响包括有意义的研究经验，以吸引和保留该国多样化的学生人才库。这将是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的结果。该项目着重于对研究合作的强大财务和基础设施支持，这些研究合作激发了PUI，HBC和LSAMP机构的教师。这些教师反过来直接影响了其家庭机构的学生和学习环境。 REU学生拥有令人兴奋和广泛的科学主题的新型化学研究经验，例如纳米技术，国土安全性，药物设计，法医学和化学生物学。每个学生都直接与实验室（来自家庭机构和Duquesne）的两名教师导师合作。学生还咨询理论教师联络，因为每个REU项目都有定义明确的计算组件来扩大学生的经验。 REU学生接受明确的培训，以加强有关最先进仪器的科学方法，科学写作和说话，道德，安全和讲习班，以补充其实验研究并建立宝贵的技能。每个学生都有机会在本地，区域和全国范围内介绍他们的研究，以扩大其专业曝光和网络，以做出更明智的职业决策，并为研究生院做准备。