REU Site: Discovery by Computation, Theory and Experiment

迪肯大学教授Jeffrey Evanseck、Jeffry Madura及其同事主持了一个由美国国家科学基金会化学部REU站点计划支持的REU站点。该网站影响着来自研究基础设施有限的机构以及来自代表性不足的人群的专业化学职业和本科生和教师的教育。这是通过建立有意义的、全年的、长期的研究合作来实现的，这是由学术生产力和卓越的本科培训的需求驱动的。该模型建立了从主要本科院校（PUIs）、传统黑人学院（HBCs）和路易斯·斯托克斯少数民族参与联盟（LSAMP）机构招募的学生和教师对的研究团队。这些合作者与来自杜肯大学的外部资助研究小组整合在一起。事实证明，这种模式可以延续下去，投资合作最终成熟为独立资助。这项工作的广泛影响包括有意义的研究经验，以吸引和留住国家多样化的学生人才库。这将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的劳动力。该项目侧重于为研究合作提供强有力的财政和基础设施支持，以激发来自pui、高负担国家和LSAMP机构的教师的活力。这些教师反过来又直接影响学生和他们所在学校的学习环境。REU学生在令人兴奋和广泛的科学主题方面具有新颖的化学研究经验，例如纳米技术，国土安全，药物设计，法医学和化学生物学。每个学生直接与实验室的两位教师导师一起工作（来自家庭机构和杜肯大学）。学生还可以咨询理论教师联络人，因为每个REU项目都有定义明确的计算组件来补充，以扩大学生的经验。REU学生接受明确的培训，以加强科学方法，科学写作和演讲，道德，安全，以及最先进仪器的研讨会，以补充他们的实验研究并建立宝贵的技能。每个学生都有机会在当地、地区和全国范围内展示他们的研究，以扩大他们的专业曝光和网络，从而做出更明智的职业决策，为研究生院做好最好的准备。

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.