REU Site: Undergraduate Research in Chemistry at Western Washington University

REU 网站：西华盛顿大学化学本科生研究

• 批准号: 1757629
• 负责人: Amanda Murphy
• 金额: $ 28.9万
• 依托单位: Western Washington University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2018-04-01 至 2023-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1757629&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: REU; Site; Undergraduate; Research; Chemistry

This REU Site award to Western Washington University (WWU), located in Bellingham, WA, will support the training of 8 students for 10 weeks during the summers of 2018-2020. This site is supported by the NSF Division of Chemistry in the Mathematical and Physical Sciences Directorate, in partnership with the Department of Defense. This program in WWU's Department of Chemistry provides research projects and professional development for students from community colleges and small four-year universities with limited research opportunities. Among the recruited participants, an emphasis is placed on underrepresented minorities from community colleges. Under the guidance of a faculty mentor, the students perform research in the areas of biochemistry, synthetic chemistry, or materials chemistry. In addition to providing an authentic research experience for these students, this program facilitates student transitions from community colleges to four-year universities, thus increasing the likelihood of these students obtaining an advanced degree in the sciences. The research training and workshops for REU participants provides them with training towards a career in chemistry, or a related science, and contributes to increasing the diversity of the scientific workforce.The student participants choose a research project from one of three main areas of chemistry: biochemistry (structure, function and engineering of proteins and nucleic acids), synthetic chemistry (organic and organometallic method development, natural product synthesis, small molecule activation, biomaterials), or materials chemistry (nanomaterials, solar concentrators, heterogeneous catalysis, computational methods). This program also provides workshops that improve students' perspectives on how to conduct research, communicate scientifically, and initiate their career in chemistry. In addition to numerous formal and informal activities for the entire group of REU participants, divisional groups (biochemistry, synthetic chemistry, and materials chemistry) are used to provide additional training that is specific to the research area, including workshops and combined group meetings. Many projects are also collaborative between multiple investigators at WWU, allowing the REU students to interact with more faculty members and get exposure to a broader scope of research topics. The culmination of the summer program is a symposium in which REU participants give poster presentations on their research projects in addition to keynote speakers from each of the three research areas.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

这个REU网站奖给西华盛顿大学（WWU），位于华盛顿州的贝灵汉，将支持8名学生在2018年至2020年的夏天10周的培训。该网站由NSF数学和物理科学理事会化学部与国防部合作支持。WWU化学系的这个项目为来自社区学院和小型四年制大学的学生提供研究项目和专业发展，这些学生的研究机会有限。在招募的参与者中，重点是来自社区学院的代表性不足的少数民族。在教师导师的指导下，学生在生物化学，合成化学或材料化学领域进行研究。除了为这些学生提供真实的研究经验外，该计划还有助于学生从社区学院过渡到四年制大学，从而增加这些学生获得科学高级学位的可能性。REU参与者的研究培训和研讨会为他们提供了化学或相关科学职业的培训，并有助于增加科学劳动力的多样性。学生参与者从化学的三个主要领域之一选择一个研究项目：生物化学（蛋白质和核酸的结构、功能和工程），合成化学（有机和有机金属方法开发、天然产物合成、小分子活化、生物材料）或材料化学（纳米材料、太阳能聚光器、多相催化、计算方法）。该计划还提供研讨会，提高学生对如何进行研究，科学沟通，并开始他们的职业生涯在化学的观点。除了许多正式和非正式的活动，为整个集团的REU参与者，分区组（生物化学，合成化学和材料化学）被用来提供额外的培训，是特定于研究领域，包括研讨会和联合小组会议。许多项目也是WWU多个研究人员之间的合作，使REU学生与更多的教师互动，并接触到更广泛的研究课题。夏季计划的高潮是一个研讨会，REU的参与者除了来自三个研究领域的主题演讲者外，还将在研讨会上展示他们的研究项目。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Additive energetic contributions of multiple peptide positions determine the relative promiscuity of viral and human sequences for PDZ domain targets

• DOI: 10.1002/pro.4611
• 发表时间: 2023-04-01
• 期刊: PROTEIN SCIENCE
• 影响因子: 8
• 作者: Tahti，Elise F.;Blount，Jadon M.;Amacher，Jeanine F.
• 通讯作者: Amacher，Jeanine F.

Quantum Dot–Block Copolymer Hybrids for Low Scattering Luminescent Solar Concentrators

• DOI: 10.1021/acsapm.1c01837
• 发表时间: 2022-04
• 期刊: ACS Applied Polymer Materials
• 影响因子: 5
• 作者: K. Koch;Daniel Korus;J. Doyle;M. Plummer;Meredith Boxx;H. Win-Piazza;S. McDowall;D. Patrick;D. Rider

Synthesis of (±)-rupestines B and C by intramolecular Mizoroki-Heck cyclization

通过分子内 Mizoroki-Heck 环化合成 (±)-rupestines B 和 C

• DOI: 10.1016/j.tetlet.2020.151837
• 发表时间: 2020
• 期刊: Tetrahedron Letters
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Starchman, Evangeline S.;Marshall, Mari S.;Vyvyan, James R.
• 通讯作者: Vyvyan, James R.